A Review on the Importance of Teacher's Efforts to Prepare High-School Graduates' Soft Skills in Vocational High School

Abstract

The importance of soft skills mastering is reflected on the worker criterion needed in the work fields. Unfortunately, vocational high school as the educational institution which prepares the graduates to be ready to work does not optimally prepare the graduates’ soft skills. This paper presents a review on the importance of vocational high school teacher’s efforts in forgraithing the graduates’ soft skills based on the work field needs. First, the viewpoint related to the organization of vocational high school is discussed by analizing its strength and weakness. Second, the review of literature related to the importance of soft skills mastering is presented. Finally, it can be concluded that the teacher’s efforts in preparing the graduates’ soft skills are pivotal. Therefore, a teacher is the director of the teaching and learning process. 1