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Developing Soft Skills in CTE

Soft skills are essential to career readiness. CTE students need to develop and utilize soft skills during their career preparation. This course defines soft skills and offers strategies that instructors can use to help their students integrate soft skills into their career skill sets. Reflection on current practices will assist participants in defining, measuring, and nurturing soft skills and work behaviors for their students. Strategies will show instructors how to measure soft skill development and growth.

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This course provides you with a lifelong peer-to-peer learning opportunity through a specific Performance Group created within the Career Ed Lounge, a learning community of career education professionals. This allows you to learn and share with your peers at any time you want, even after you complete the course.

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"I really enjoyed this course. I believe the development of life/career competencies is critical to our students success in their post-graduation paths. "

"I thought this course was wonderful and very relevant for what I teach in Business and Marketing classes."

Course Objectives

Module 1: Why Soft Skills

Understand key strategies for developing soft skills
Define the Why of soft skills development
Reflect on the emphasis currently being placed in instruction on soft skills
Explain the value of soft skills to career success
Identify how soft skills development benefits all students regardless of future plans

Module 2: Defining Career Behaviors

Explain the relationship of different names used in describing work habits
Describe the role of values and beliefs in behavior
Identify appropriate learning used for work behaviors
Locate the database of Life/Career competencies
Value the importance of having common language and definitions of soft skills

Module 3: Measuring Soft Skills

Describe how data can be used to emphasize and improve soft skills instruction
Reflect on school-wide data practices related to soft skills
Explain the options for measuring soft skills in the classroom

Module 4: Nurturing Soft Skills

Differentiate between competencies, mindsets, and guiding principles
Identify five elements in nurturing behaviors
Describe good teaching practices in setting expectations
Explain how teachers can integrate numerous soft skills through the length of a program
Describe how teachers can encourage using student reflection in developing soft skills
Recommend options for obtaining instructional resources

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Can Start Anytime
Self-paced (within course enrollment timeframe)
4 Hours of Activities

Completion Requirements

Study Course Content
Pass ALL Required Quizzes

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4 Hours of Continuing Education
Awarded upon successful completion of course

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Certification Credits

This course provides a Certificate of Completion with 4 hours of continuing education credits.
This course provides credit toward the Certified Higher Education Professional (CHEP) credential in the following specialization area(s):
This course provides credit toward the continuing education requirements for CHEPs in all areas of specialization.

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