The world is rapidly evolving and the future belongs to those who have thought of it. Every sector in life has moved on except for the educational sector and it’s the duty of the teachers to move on from where it currently is to where it is supposed to be. There is so much more to life than just hard skill e.g. carpentry…

Firstly, what are soft skills; they are innate gifts, talents, skills that make things better for you. Soft skills are transferable and can be done through communication which is the major work of the teacher. There are four soft skills teachers need to be teaching;

• Problem-solving
• Good communication
• Digital literacy
• Emotional intelligence

Teachers are supposed to be rooted in these soft skills or else they will not be properly equipped in teaching the digital child. We must note that digital literacy is not about owning or using a computer, it is education on how to navigate the computer systems to get the best out of it. Communication is one of the major soft skills for teachers, it involves reasoning, message, speech, reception, decoding, transmission, and interpretation and it is a teacher’s duty to decode how a child should learn. Teachers need to have people skills, technical skills; all these skills should be imbibed in the classrooms.