Soft Skills for Private basic Education Schools in Thailand

Abstract

This research study was aimed to evaluate the soft skills for teachers in Thailand working in private Basic Education schools in Samut Prakan province and to investigate the developing methods of soft skills for inexperience teachers. The 116 participants were selected by way of simple random sampling accordingly. Questionnaire was also utilized to survey the current situation and the need for developing soft skills for new teachers in seven aspects which were: 1) Communication skills 2) Thinking skills and problem solving skills 3) Teamwork force 4) Life-long learning, and information management 5) Innovation development 6) Ethics and professionalism 7) Leadership skills. When considering result, the specific components of soft skills, it was found that the innovation development was the skill that showed the least behavioral level. The self-evaluation shows that inexperienced teachers in private Basic Education schools in Samut Prakan, Thailand have established Teamwork force skill, Ethics and professionalism and Leadership skill in the workplace. On the other hand, Innovation, Communication and Thinking and Problem solving skills were lacking the most. From the study, it identifies that three most sought after soft skills attribute in new teachers are Ethics and professionalism, Teamwork force and Thinking and problem solving skills.