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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Refining Your Communication Skills

From a teaching perspective, what communication skills do you believe are the most important to a diverse learning environment? Why? As an instructor, which communication skills would you personally wish to improve? Why?

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Developing Your Communication Skills

What are some methods you can use to develop and refine your communication skills?

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Using Student Learning Groups

What are the most significant outcomes and the most significant challenges to using student learning groups in the classroom? What teaching methods help to ensure that student learning groups stay on course and are productive?

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Organizing Student Learning Groups

What are some of the educational outcomes you have experienced through the use of student learning groups?

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The Diverse Learner

Describe a specific strategy that has worked for you when addressing students with diverse learning needs. How do you effectively assess a student learning need?

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Instructing Diverse Learners

What are some strategies that have helped you work with students that have diverse learning needs?

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Instructing Learners with Disabilities

What are some instructional methods that have been successful for you when working with students with learning disabilities?

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The Challenge of Learning Disabilities

What would you say is the greatest challenge to working with students with learning disabilities? What are some specific instructional methods that have been successful for you when working with students with learning disabilities?

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Refining Your Communication Skills

Hi T. Tanner, I have faced the same challenge; here might be a suggestion: At the beginning of the quarter I have given students a scenario of obtaining a new piece of information about a topic, then given them a choice as to how they would like to see the information presented - for example, PowerPoint, lecture with examples, a hands-on activity, etc. Of course, most students will say a balance of all three, and, of course, we should incorporate as much flexibility in our instructional delivery as possible. However, for purposes of the question, I ask them to choose… >>>

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Using Student Learning Groups

Hi T. Tanner, thanks for your observations. You're right - breaking a project into different parts is a way to keep students on track and more accountable for results. It also helps them see how all components fit together for a result and how some tasks or activities are dependent upon others. In essence, the process provides a project management opportunity - a great workplace critical skill. Jay Hollowell ED106 Facilitator

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