ABSTRACT
It is a teachers' responsibility to create a conducive environment of learning and maintain a positive culture in the classroom for students to learn. A student teacher well acquired with essential soft skills will exhibit excellent traits of a good teacher. student teachers, when entering in the practical world or join schools to teach, face many challenges, and find it tough to deal with them. Currently, most of the teachers teaching in different school lack soft skills. Since there is a dire need of competent teachers, so it has become important to ensure that whether student teachers are equipped with soft skills and how it impacts their teaching performance.Student teachers should possess soft skills as it has a direct correlation with the teachers' performance. Therefore, the problem lies in ensuring that these student teachers possess soft skills and whether it impacts their teaching competence. he present research study will provide an empirical evidence which can be utilized by the stake holders to imbibe those skills in the teacher training curriculum. The predictive ability of soft skills in terms of teaching competence of the prospective teachers can be inferred through this piece of research work. The findings and practical implications of this study will pave ways for more inductive researches in the field of soft skills needed by the teachers. There are the rare shreds of evidence of empirical studies done in the country with the present set of soft skills investigating their impact on teaching competence. The findings of this study may fill a portion of the existing gap in this area in India as majority of the empirical evidence can be witnessed in the foreign context.