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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Using Student Learning Groups

Thanks for your comments Abundio! I like your approach; by walking around, you are showing support and interest in the team members' activities and are making it easier for them to approach you. Additionally, by getting into their team learning space, it demonstrates that you are connected and can help guide them in their communication processes. Jay Hollowell ED106 Facilitator

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Using Student Learning Groups

Hi John! Thanks so much for your comments: I am glad that some applications in ED106 are helpful! I too have worked with short teaching time frames and found that integrating a few brief, on-point activities right into the presentation helps to maximize skill acquisition without taking a lot of time. As a side note, you may have received a forum repsonse from me in error regarding working with silence when no student volunteers an answer to a question. Let me apologize, I mixed up two different forum responses, perhaps it might be helpful anyway. Thanks again!! Jay ED106

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Refining Your Communication Skills

Hi Rob! Thanks so much for your insightful observations. It's so true that floating or getting physically into the learning environment, as opposed to behind a lectern or desk, is crucial to student engagement. I might suggest also varying your lectures/presentations with related mini-activities that could further engage students in the learning process. There is an old saying about the "seven-minute rule" - change the presentation/interaction stimulus about every 7 minutes to help keep students from drifting or shutting down. Jay Hollowell ED106 Facilitator

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The Diverse Learner

Hi Marcia, thanks so much for the observations, sorry for the delay in responding. I too have found that questions/communication on a more personal level often supercede potential language barriers. Also from teaching and training so much internationally, I have found that body language and expressing genuine interest in what someone else is communicating are ways to champion diversity and overcome language differences. Jay Hollowell ED106 Facilitator

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The Challenge of Learning Disabilities

Thanks, Phillip, I think you are right on target with the instructor being a model and a motivator - leading by example - I know that your students must really relate to you and that, having a learning challenge itself, you can give them practical insight. Jay ED106 Facilitator

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Refining Your Communication Skills

Hi Jose, please feel free to contact me at any time with questions, observations, etc. and thanks for your participation!! Jay ED106

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Using Student Learning Groups

Hi Rob! These are all excellent observations and you're right about the challenges, particularly the student who may dominate the group and the student who does not make any significant contribution or carrry his or her weight in group effort. I have found, as you referenced, that helping the group to establish clear ground rules about the roles and responsibilities of team members, plus making sure that your expectations of tasks, learning objectives and outcomes are also clearly communicated, help in the process. Sometimes a dominant personality needs to be privately and professionally reminded that other group members must have… >>>

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Refining Your Communication Skills

Hi Daniel! Thanks for your comments; eye contact is probably the most powerful form of body language in the communication process, plus it is also a means to observation. Jay Hollowell ED106

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The Challenge of Learning Disabilities

Hi Anis! Repetition has been proven to be one of the best reinforcements in teaching, particularly when the student is demonstrating something. Instructors also often use repetition not only to reinforce taught skills, but to add new ones; for example, each time a student repeats a procedure, list of instructions, or application, a new skill might be added to the process, or the repetition might vary a little to incorporate an additional outcome. Thanks for your comments ans participation! Jay Hollowell ED106

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Refining Your Communication Skills

Hi Anis! Thanks for your observations. You're right in that it is so important for our students to understand the value of working with other cultures and languages. I have found that personal and positive body language goes a long way universally in helping with overall verbal language barriers. Jay Hollowell ED106

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