Skills that every education undergraduate should possess
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It is not by accident that anyone actually goes to universities, polytechnics and colleges of education just to study a course-field called ‘Education’. Its quite an interesting one, if you ask me and brings some astounding degree of advantage of skills to the students who study education. Each of us have the capability to teach or transfer knowledge to another but then teaching becomes intentional when you study education. Reason is that you learn to project knowledge for better teaching outcome than a regular person.

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This is possible because of the skill set education studies have in stock for its undertakers. If you’ve already equipped yourself with some or all, bravo!! However, if you don’t seem to find your way as early, then you will need some help. Below are list of skills every education student must possess to become more pronounced in the teaching profession.

Communication skills

Communication becomes a skill when you understand the keys to effective communication and what bridges the communication gap. Trained education scholars will need this skill since they are prepared to make constant physical meetings with their audiences and ofcourse to transfer knowledge.

Problem solving skills

Education studies equips students with the ability to demystify concepts and break it down till the students understand. Education is quite broad and has many fields in which students are trained to meet several educational cum societal issues. For instance, some education students actually study how to teach and communicate to the physically impaired like blind, dumb and deaf students.

Organisational skills

Class reps understands this point like a teacher does; its not easy to subject students to your teaching especially when they are adults. But being trained to do so, education students are taught to plan their teaching notes strategically both for children, adults and physically impaired. This helps you churn out the right set of the learning outline bit by bit in a manner that captures and retains the attention of your audience at every meeting time.

Effectiveness at debate and presenting theories and ideas

As education undergraduates, you should possess argumentative skills for logical and critical reasoning. This will help you to analyse concepts, theories and ideas. You should know what knowledge to kill, the ones to modify and the ones to give out

Team management

In your career as undergraduate, I guess you have realized at some point that students are sometimes encouraged to take up group work and project based test; most of which require collaborative efforts. Now as a teacher in view, you are expected to graduate from team leadership to team management where you have to manage all the team for a desired learning outcome.

Empathy

Empathy can be learned as much as can be possessed naturally . The communication skill kinda covers this but it is necessary to point out that if you do not have the ability to feel and reason with your audience, you have not done well. As much as you can, put yourself in your audience shoes as it will help you understand yourselves better for always.