Assessment of Life-Skills Education Awareness amongst In-Service School Teachers

Abstract

Life skills are abilities for adaptive and positive behaviour that enable individual to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of everyday life. Life skills enable us to translate knowledge, attitude and values into actual abilities by helping us decide what to do, when to do and how to do. The life skill education promotes mental well-being in young people and equips them to face the realities of life. In present scenario when there are so many challenges in day-to-day life it becomes necessary to understand the concept of life skills and the reasons for its indispensability in today’s world. Questionnaire study was designed to evaluate the awareness of teachers regarding life-skill education in structured way. Ninety teacher educators responded which showed that 85.6% were aware of life-skills. 97.8% stated that they wish to enhance their knowledge regarding Life skills education. 82.2 % agreed that Life skills education can be taught by teachers and 73.3% stated that experiential learning methods can be useful. LSE is necessary for teachers to help them to use their knowledge, attitude and values in a better way in their profession.