Lifelong Learn. 2024, 14, 7-30
Perceived Level of Soft Skills Among the Vocational Training Teachers as Viewed by Themselves, the School Directors and Their Deputies
The presented study focuses on the process of gaining soft skills and competencies among vocational training teachers. The main goal of the study was to find out how the teachers themselves perceive the level of their soft skills as well as how the school directors and their deputies perceive the soft skills of their employees. The questionnaire created for this purpose was based on the description of the soft skills for vocational training teachers by the National Qualifications System. The results show that the most important soft skills the teachers themselves consider necessary for the profession of a teacher are productivity, the ability to solve problems, and effective communication. The viewpoints of the directors and their deputies were mostly similar, the most important skill being effective communication. A comparison of the data from the teachers and the directors (and their deputies) revealed significant differences between these two groups of respondents in their opinion on the ideal level of soft skills and their ideas about the realistic level of soft skills among vocational training teachers.
