What Are Transferable Skills

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Transferable skills relate to a person’s capability and individual traits that are used throughout one’s education, working life and one’s existence. Transferable skills are divided into different categories – ‘communication and presentation, teamwork and interpersonal skills, management and planning skills and intellectual and creative skills’ (Shirley 2009 p128). Communication and presentation skills are a huge part of working in the early years, it is vital that staff in early years are good communicators and can present one’s ideas to co-workers and parents. It is vital when discussing certain matters with families DCYA (2016 p.54) ‘Talking openly and listening to the views and concerns of families and children is essential for promoting …show more content…

Teamwork and interpersonal skills are imperative in early years' care and education, this is having the capacity to confer, focus on and understand other people (Shirley 2009). It is important for practitioners to have teamwork and interpersonal skills as a vast part of the job is working with other people and having the people skills necessary to adapt to different people’s methods of doing a job. In the CORE report (2011) it looks at the progression of equal relationships between team members, settings and the community. This means that the team members need to work together, become highly skilled individual through training and have a comprehensive understanding of using reflective practice to understand what is working and what is not working. This in turns leads to a high-quality setting for early years' care and education. Interpersonal skills are attached to communication skills and are used both formally and informally in the workplace, with families and with co-workers, interpersonal skills are central when working with other people and having to communicate with families, a person requires self-confidence when discussing certain matters with people and needs to have the belief that what one is saying is significantly important and be knowledgeable about …show more content…

An important skill in early childhood care and education is knowledge, skills, and the ability of the practitioner to do the job appropriately. The core skills at the centre of early childhood care and education sector are ‘child development, personal professional development, social development, health – hygiene – nutrition and safety, communication – administration and management and education and play’ (blackboard, 2018). From a basic practitioner up to expert, practitioner needs to be aware of the core skills, the basic practitioner has a basic understanding of the skills, so this is why up-skilling is important to develop the knowledge and put into the skills and knowledge to meet the core needs. DES (2018 p. 8) states that ‘. It also provided for a range of continuing professional development (CPD) measures to support early years staff to update their skills and knowledge in core practice areas such as child protection and

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