Author(s): Kartika Hajati, Dede Rahmat Hidayat, Muhammad Aswad

Abstract: This study aims to develop a soft skill development model for educators prospective. As a person who is an example and an example for students, every LPTK student must have high personal and social competencies. As it is known that there are 4 competencies that must be possessed by the teacher, namely professional competence, pedagogical competence, personal competence and social competence. For the first two competencies (professional and pedagogical) the curriculum in the LPTK already has a content that supports the two competencies. Soft skill is an important component in education that is still ignored. Cognitive and conative abilities in the education domain are categorized as hard skills, while other abilities related to social skills and the ability to have self awareness are categorized as soft skills. The research method used is Research Development which is carried out in 2 stages. Stage I as the first year is (a) Mapping soft skills that are owned by students and their implications for the patterns of relationships they develop (b) Develop learning models that can improve soft skills. Phase II conducted in the second year was to implement the model in several schools to determine the effectiveness and efficiency of the model by using mixed methods, namely quantitative methodology with explanatory research design model and qualitative method with exploratory research design model. In the first stage, the product research is a soft skill instrument and data on the level of soft skills of prospective educators at UNJ. Based on the research process carried out, obtained softskill instruments that have good instrument character, the instrument test is carried out in the first two stages through the assessment of experts (expert judgment) by two experts, the first psychologist and the two instrument experts. Furthermore, empirical tests were conducted for students at UNJ, the results obtained were that the instrument items had validity ranging from 0.197 to 0.660. Reliability testing with Cronbach's alpha also has a high value, which is 0.728. Furthermore, mapping of soft skills for FIP students, obtained an illustration that the mean value is self awareness 2.8, self skills 2.8, interpersonal skills 3.2 and social skills 2.9.

Keywords: Soft skills, measurement, soft skill development models.

DOI: 10.22161/ijels.3.6.46