Teachers Soft Skills Practices and Performance

Soft skills are character traits that improve a person's capacity to deal with a variety of circumstances like creating constructive relationships and favorable learning settings. This study was undertaken to determine the extent of soft skills practices of teachers in terms of leadership skills, communication skills, teamwork, problem solving skills, and work ethics; determine the level of teachers’ performance; find the relationship of teachers’ soft skills and their performance and identify which of the soft skills highly impacted their performance. The study was conducted at Jasaan South District in the Division of Misamis Oriental for the School Year 2022-2023, to nine (9) schools with one hundred thirty-one (131) teacher-respondents who were taken through Slovin’s Formula. The study employed a correlational and causal designs with content analysis which included a quantitative approach in collecting numerical data through a questionnaire adopted from Waban, 2022. Mean, Standard Deviation, Pearson Product-Moment Correlation Coefficient or Pearson (r) and Multiple Linear Regression were used to find the relationships among the variables as well as the impactful variable/s. Results revealed that teachers’ overall soft skills practices were at Highly Practiced with Outstanding level on their Performance. Communication skill and work ethics have significant relationship with their performance. Moreover, communication skill is the predictor of teachers’ performance. Teachers practices on soft skills allowed them to achieve outstanding performance. Thus, school heads may provide trainings and seminar to maintain better competence and update teachers with new and current soft skills.