Research Article | Open Access
Soft Skills and Digital Competencies in Teacher Professional Development in Times of a COVID-19 Pandemic
Livia Carmen Segura Rondan Violeta Cadenillas Albornoz Fanny Esperanza Zavala Alfaro Blanca Soledad Zavala Alfaro4 Olga Natividad Arellanos Tafur
Pages: 64-73
Abstract
In the current context, the priority objectives to recover education affected by the
Covid-19 pandemic are evident and in that sense, the soft skills of teachers and their
digital skills become important, because they influence teacher professional
development. To determine the levels of soft skills, the validated instrument of the
article by Rodríguez (2020) was used, the levels of digital competences were used
by the instrument of Tourón et al. (2018) and to establish the levels of teacher
professional development, the validated instrument of Porras (2020) was used,
whose research purpose for this study was to establish the incidence of soft skills
and digital competences in teacher professional development in times of pandemic
by Covid-19. It was concluded that soft skills and digital competence significantly
affect teacher professional development in times of the Covid-19 pandemic, since
Nagelkerke = 0.669, establishing that soft skills and digital skills affect 66.9% in
teacher professional development; and of the predictor variables, soft skills predict
teacher professional development, due to Wald = 80,193; p = 0.000 <0.05.
Keywords
Soft Skills, Digital Skills, Teacher Professional Development.