Abstract
My drive for this study was to describe the experiences of the public school teachers in practicing soft skills to experience the joys of teaching in their respective workplace in due course. Experiential confirmations unveiled that soft skills are indispensable in the emancipation of the duties and responsibilities of the teachers to their journey in the quest for the joy of teaching. Thus, my phenomenological study exposed the experiences of the ten elementary school teachers in the Division of Davao Occidental using the purposive sampling technique. Teachers bare that, for them, the soft skills that are easy to manifest are: inspiration to learners, attitude towards work, communication with co-teachers, collaboration in school, and self-sacrifice for the service. They also uncovered that the soft skills that were difficult to practice are time management, patience in service, verbal communication, decision-making and conflict resolution. Likewise, they also have made known the reasons why master soft skills which were the impressions that soft skills build rapport and camaraderie. This advent served as a paradigm shift in teaching as it demanded teachers to cope with the constantly changing world to attain job satisfaction. This study, then, should work for the inspiration of teachers to enthusiastically engage in teaching with the manifestation of soft skills – a practice that would advance good relationships among teachers, learners, school officials and other stakeholders whereby transform teaching and learning into a more fun, engaging, and productive encounters.
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