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Soft skills are becoming just as important as essential skills. Confident, goal setting, communication.

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Essential, fundamental, the base of learning, "systematic error" that needs to be changed. 92% of employers believe soft skills are more important. We should teach life skills and not only hard skills because they are measurable. Communication, collaboration, critical thinking, work ethic, creativity and confidence.

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ESSENTIAL SKILLS - Skills that are essential for learning everything. They aid in helping an individual become more confident, independent, and work to be better collaborators with others. These are soft skills, but are far more important than hard skills when it comes to a long term goal for an individual

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Essential skills are very important in all works of life. Confidence, Objective goal setting, collaborative skills, critical thinking, communication, big idea, team and of course being able to listen to one another.  These are various forms they are applied.

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essential skills, why?, skills to read and write

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emphasize more on essential skills (soft skills) instead of hard skills. change the way we present information rather than having students just regurgitate information in order to better set up for success in the future.

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essential skills-confident, creative, collaborative, critical thinking, hardworking, these are fundamental skills necessary for any job and just as important as the hard skills to read, write, compute, etc.

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Adjust the benchmark

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Soft skills are an important and essential skill that paves the path to better understanding of core curriculum.

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soft skills are essential skills

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Skills one needs to have already to be able to learn more.

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Call "soft skills" "essential skills" because they are ESSENTIAL.

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soft skills are just as important as hard skills; essential skills; collaboration

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essential skills, communication, collaboration, learning easier

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Collaboration, vision, essential, communication, etc.

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Confident, creative, and critical thinking skills

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Due to systematic errors, students do not know how to communicate or collaborate.

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They have not been actually taught the essential skills!

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Incapable of seeing the overall vision because they are not being taught

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Communication, collaboration, essential skills, hard working, creative, critical thinkers

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compromising

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Soft Skills are actually Essential Skills are from me... Nirvana Mbengue... Sorry, I didn't realize it would post me as Anonymous.

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Soft Skills are Essential Skills are characteristics of Profile of a Graduate

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skills that are not measurable.

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I've told my students for years that they are in a critical thinking and communication skills class.

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Soft skills are lacking, essential skills are so important.

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soft skills just as important/ critical thinking skills/ confidence presentation

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Confidence, critical thinking;They are just as important as core skills.

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collaborate-creative-hard workers

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School creates anxiety. The system is basically unnecessary testing.

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Out with soft skills.  In with essential skills.  They are as important and necessary as core content, also known as hard skills.

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Essential skills, soft skills, accountability, are all words that stood out to me.

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Collaboration, critical thinking, communication, confidence, work ethic, big picture, and the “why”

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Independence, Critical thinking, communication skills, essential skills, collaboration, regurgitate info, anxiety, adjusting the benchmark.

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Need for independence.  Communication.  Collaboration. Creative. Essential skills.

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Collaboration is one of many skills that needs to to be implemented and taught along with those hard skils.

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compromise, vision

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soft skills are are important to be successful

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Essential skills are necessary to function in society

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Soft skills are needed to be effective in communication and collaboration.

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Students learn better with collaboration.

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Essential skills, not soft skills!!  Students need to be taught to communicate and collaborate.

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Soft skills are  ESSENTIAL skills--> some believe they are more important than hard skills. Collaboration, confidence, communication, presentation.

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Knowledge without the ability to use it, is less valuable.

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Essential Skills, Accountability

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Essential skills; Collaboration; Regurgitating information on a test; SYSTEMATIC ERROR

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All are essential skills that prepares them for their futures.

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communication, collaboration, work ethic, teach essential skills, critical thinkers

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Essential skills are very important to succeed.

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Skills such as collaboration, confidence, work ethic, and communication are critical skills and must be cultivated as such.

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collaboration and communication...essential skills

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4 C's =essential skills

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Essential skills

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Once "soft skills" are mastered, the other stuff comes easier.

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soft skills that are more important for collaboration

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essential skills are important

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Essential skills-highly important

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essential skills, collaboration, communication and relevant!

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"Hard skills" easy to measure/test. "Soft skills" are needed in the workplace and the global community.

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Collaboration, confidence, and ethical working makes a great student.

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Essential Skills

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essential skills - start them early

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Teaching for an educational society + essential skills

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Soft skills can lessen anxiety

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Collaboration, confidence, work ethic, essential skills.

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Collaborate, Communicate, confidence, critical thinking

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Students need essential skills in order to navigate and function in society. Anxiety is on the rise.

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We want to measure how students obtain information, present it, and how they can use it outside the classroom. That is achieved by facilitating collaboration, building confidence, applying critical thinking, using effective communication, and developing work skills.

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Soft skills = ESSENTIAL SKILLS. Communication, collaboration, critical thinking, work ethic

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Essential Skills are "Essential" student success.  They must be taught for students to master them.

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Soft skills will create effective critical thinkers that collaborate; they are essential skills

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collaboration, communication, essential skills, we need to teach students to communicate and collaborate

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miscommunication, confidence, essential hard skills, soft skills, ESSENTIAL SKILLS, collaborate

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Teach Essential Skills - collaboration and communication

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Giving students skills for life.

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Soft skills are really vital skills! Reminds me of integrating WICOR from Avid!

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Collaboration, soft skills, essential skills, critical thinking

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Essential skills as important, if not more important, as "hard" skills

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essential skills, collaboration, confidence, communication, work ethic, presenting, creative

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Teach essential skills to be confident, creative, critical thinking, and hardworking collaborators.

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Soft skills=essential skills

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teaching essential skills. Collaboration, Communication, Critical Thinking

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confidence, creativity, collaboration, communication. Change the test too!

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Soft Skills are actually Essential Skills.

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Stop using the term soft skill and move towards using the term essential skills

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Communicate and critique with confidence.

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Listen, Speak, Read, Write, and Think

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soft skills=essential; critical thinking, collaborating, communication essential to success. Schools are producing machine cogs.

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essential skills, think, collaborate

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Compromise

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teaching essential skills; collaboration and communication

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Soft skills are essential skills: collaboration, confidence, communication and critical thinking.

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Type something down there at the bottom!