CHAPTER 13 : Practices that build “soft skills” without including them in the grade Do you believe each soft skill has an equal impact on a student’s academic performance, or do some soft skills have more impact than others? Does it depend on the industry or the context? Might this mean that a part of teaching soft skill is teaching students how to assess a context? How might we scaffold the teaching of soft skill? How student specific is the connection between any given soft skill and an academic performance? How much does it change depending on the academic subject or skill to be performed? What implications does this have on how to give feedback on a student’s soft skills competence, or the use of a student tracker? Some schools use student-led grade conferences in which students, alongside their teacher, explain their performance to their caregivers. They share academic and study skills data, identify strengths and weaknesses, and identify goals and plans for improvement. It’...