Every student has different needs which are catered to by different teaching methods. There is no single style and technique for everyone. Thus, instructors should be flexible and open to modifying their techniques and style to best meet the requirements of the situation. This principle is essential when assisting students in honing their interpersonal abilities. One effective way is by being an emphatic listener, accepting recipient and an honest communicator. These characteristics, paired with perfect timing and environment, promote a favorable learning setting.
Knowing your students is fundamental in helping them to develop their social skills. Understanding them and being acquainted with them gives you an insight on how they relate with other people. By gaining awareness of their strengths and shortcomings it is easier to help them turn those into advantages while they tackle the issues they have.
Actions speak louder than words. There is no better way than to show and model to students what you are teaching rather than just lecturing. The social-cognitive theory asserts that observational learning is pertinent in actually comprehending and understanding a skill. Moreover, somebody viewed as an authoritative figure, such as a teacher, modeling a behavior influences students to follow suit. By encouraging pupils to communicate and develop interpersonal relationships, the facilitator advocates improving the skills required to do this.
Taking part in activities is a fun and interactive way for students to learn. Especially in games, it piques their interest at the same time it inspires their creativity. After each activity, the coordinator of the exercise provides feedback to and gets feedback from the students, makes tactful corrections and evaluates what has taken place. This method would enable the students to develop insight about what happened and what they learned from it.
People do something because they are driven towards it. They are motivated and inspired to perform an act due to extrinsic and intrinsic factors. Initially, instructors hand out extrinsic rewards, such as a higher grade or praise. However, the intrinsic reward, such as a person's positive feelings, is more useful in terms of developing skills. It is the teacher's responsibility to teach students how these skills would be beneficial and useful in their day-to-day dealings with other people outside and inside the school.