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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Developing Your Communication Skills

Hi Karen! Thanks for your response. You have provided an excellent example of engaging students during a lecture or presentation. Having a student provide an example, or informally paraphrase your points, changes the pace and stimulus in the classroom and is an example of an active learning technique. I have also used the "press conference" concept where three or four students are chosen to be the experts on the "press panel" (students rotate being on the panel). There job is to listen and watch, take summary notes on the lecture, and then each ask me a thought-provoking question about the… >>>

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Developing Your Communication Skills

Thanks Esteban! Welcome to the forum! You're right on target. Communication really is a practiced and refined skill that involves so much more than the message. Breaking the process down into components of sender, message, receiver, perception, feelings, the communication medium, etc. all highlight the significance of each part of the communication process. It is dynamic! Jay Hollowell ED106 Facilitator

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Additional Forum 1 Questions

Thanks Samuel! It sounds like a lot of interactive strategies. I have found that role plays work well when it is very clear as to what the desired outcomes of them are; it seems easier for students to talk about what they would say or do as opposed to actually taking on a role. How do you set up a role play? Is one student's role to observe and give feedback? Do students switch roles for additional practice? Jay Hollowell ED106 Facilitator

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Anatomy of a Vision Statement

As career school managers or department heads, we may have written vision statements for our teams, but if you were to write a personal vision statement what would you include in it and why?

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Organizing Student Learning Groups

Hi Lawanda! You're on point; learning groups can be used in so many ways as long as group members, with the help of the teacher, clearly define outcomes, ground rules, roles and expectations. Jay ED106 Facilitator

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Instructing Diverse Learners

Hi Christine! Their field experience helps out a great deal in giving ESL students practice with the language; we still find, as you know, that we have to adjust our communication styles, and our pace, to adapt. Jay ED106

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Developing Your Communication Skills

Hi Ronald! Welcome to the course! You're right, students can get lost in the lecture, particularly those that are not auditory learners. It looks like you have been very successful in geting them to ask questions. By adapting our lectures to different learning styles, activating them with stories and examples, changing the pulse or tone every few minutes, and blending in other activities, our lectures can come alive. I have also encouraged students to keep a learning journal where they write a brief summary of each lesson, write down any questions or confusion they might have, and describe the lesson… >>>

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Organizing Student Learning Groups

Hi Christine! It's amazing how students mentor each other, even without it being purposeful. Student learning groups are an excellent way to encourage participation and achieve a performance outcome as long as there are ground rules, the desired outcome is clear, and group members are clear as to roles, responsibilities and expectations. Jay Hollowell ED106

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Developing Your Communication Skills

Hi Nancy! This is Jay Hollowell, the course facilitator for ED106. Welcome to the discussion forums! Excellent point about slowing down. I have found myself as well speeding through a topic because I am so familiar with it. In the past, I have done a few things to help: -make sure that I have clearly communicated the objectives/learning outcomes of the lesson to the students -pause frequently to check for understanding and ask for a paraphrase, interpretation or example from students -blend an activity, example, demonstration into the presentation -appoint a responsible student as the "pulse manager," to signal me… >>>

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Organizing Student Learning Groups

Great! Any variance of classroom activities, particularly those that stimulate creativity, really help students absorb and apply. Jay Hollowell, Center for Excellence in Education

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