Jay Hollowell

About me

Please allow me this opportunity to welcome everyone to The Lounge! As someone who has had the honor of being in career education and corporate training for thirty years (gee, it makes me feel much older!), I can honestly say that I am the happiest professionally when having the opportunity to interact with fellow career educators - whether it be a training event, webinar, or medium such as this where we can collaboratively share our thoughts.

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Communicating Your Case

What might be at least three aspects that you would consider when communicating your case to an audience of potential stakeholders?

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Making the Right Choice

When a layoff becomes necessary, how do you decide which employees to let go? What factors are addressed and why?

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Communicating the Layoff

What are at least three things you would consider when communicating a layoff to your staff?

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Organizing Your Material

When writing a communication, what strategies do you use to effectively organize your material?

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Is What I Meant What You Read? Dynamics of the Delivery

What aspects must we consider when ensuring that a delivered communication is not misunderstood?

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Using Memorable Examples

Thanks, Vipan, to your point, providing and asking for real-world examples is a powerful teaching technique! Jay Hollowell ED106

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Locating Yourself in the Classroom

Hi Donald! You raise a very good point that has not been mentioned in the ED106 forums before. When an instructor moves around the classroom, he or she not only recharges the learning environment, but himself/herself, and refreshes both tone and body language. Thanks for your observations. Jay Hollowell ED106

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Strategies for Working with Students with Learning Disabilities

Hi Bruce! Thanks for your ideas. Peer mentoring and tutoring are certainly very effective strategies for student learning if, of course as you note, it is done in the appropriate and supportive way under the guidance of the instructor - students very much learn from each other! Jay Hollowell ED106

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Understanding Diverse Learners

Thanks for your comments, Debra! The type of cultural diversity discusisons that you facilitate in the classroom certainly help prepare students for both the workplace and the community in general. Jay Hollowell ED106

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Instructional Support for Students with Learning Disabilities

Thanks, Alan! I encourage all ED106 participants to read Alan's comments; they are clearly summative and motivational as to what a little instructor effort will yield in the lives of learners. I took the liberty to repeat below: I was an adjunct for approximately 8-9 years before becoming a full time faculty. My academic training is not in Education. What I know about teaching is the experience gained throughout my 14 years as a teacher and from taking courses such as this one. It is interesting how the trial and error method eventually produces some effective results. I have probablly… >>>

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