Modeling & Teaching Professionalism

Public

Ask a question from your peers to help you in your professional work. Seek different points of view on a topic that interests you. Start a thought-provoking conversation about a hot, current topic. Encourage your peers to join you in the discussion, and feel free to facilitate the discussion. As a community of educators, all members of the Career Ed Lounge are empowered to act as a discussion facilitator to help us all learn from each other.

Samiya Jones

Soft Skills

Soft Skills are very important because they allow you connect with your students. Our soft skills allow the student to realize that we are humans just as they are and we are here to help them grow.

Cathy Armstrong

Lifetime Learner

I belive that we never stop learning. I have been teaching for three years and I am still in a continual learning pprocess to keep up with the advances occuring daily in my industry. Even my students have ideas and information to share about our industry that I may not be awrare of. They can provide a wide range of information that I can share with my next class.

Qunna Morrow

Soft Skills vs. Professionalism

Discuss how soft skills contribute to your professionalism.

Joyce Lighari

soft skills

I teach soft skills in my professionalism class - this was helpful not only to me as an individual instructor but also for my course content

Carmina Estores

negative feedback

What are some ways/methods used to give constructive negative feedback?

Paul Killom

Practice, a key to fostering oral presentations

What makes a good athlete? Artist? Is it not practice? When we watch the Olympics or attend a concert, we are viewing the final product but often forget that it took hours, days, months, and/or years of practice to become proficient in the discipline. The same may be said, especially students in introductory oral communication courses, of becoming excellent speakers. It is practice,practice, practice!

Gregory smith

Bringing your professional expereince into the classroom

How important is it to bring your professional expereince to the classroom? I have found that my industry experience in communications, ethics, policy, politics, organiztion of work and time management was well received by many students.

Larry Williams

Soft Skills?

Some more than not as i went through this course i was already using them. The average students i think look at their instructor as being above them-knowlege as well as motivating them. The soft skills bring that seperation closer and makes the studnets more comfortable in the whole enviroment of our classes. Example: (if your hungry are you as focused as you would be if your not?) So, i think the more obstruction we remove the easier we can motivate them into usng these soft skills, sometimes without even realizing them.

Anthony McPhee CHEP

How often is EQ used in the real world?

As I took this course. It dawn on me, how often we use EQ in the classeroom.

david martinez

Empathy

The ability to apply empathy can make or break the rapport that we have with students. Where I have seen a challenge is the ability to empathize with the student without enabling them. It tends to be an interesting balance between doing what is right by the student and holding them accountable to the standards set for their progress. I would love to hear feedback from the group on how you balance this issue in your practice?

Beatrice Avila

Learning Basics

As learning styles change and are enhanced, overall the basic learning methods are still utilzed one some shape or form. Some of these are reading whether it be electronic or paper and another is listening whether it be from a live person or audio.

Larry Williams

Listening to your students

More times than not, listening to my students is one of the most important things to me. Discussions present themselves in the classroom more often than not, the key i think is being able to keep it relavant to the material being covered. Larger classes are sometimes better for this approach. I have been surprised at how many will get involved that otherwise would not. boring classes seem (at times) to erase themselves.

Arthur Klobucar CHEP

Importance of this class

Many individuals that I have worked with over the years have tried to rely on technical skills to instruct a class. I have seen many of them have issues with classes or some individuals in the class. It is very important to be able to understand soft skills and how they can effect a course. Before taking this course I kind of new what soft skills were but not to the extent I do now.

Pascale Thomas

listening to students

I understand that it is an important key but let's be realistic, how can we truly listen and help students when you have to teach a big class and you only spend 2 hours with them. Most of the time i feel powerless.

raymond spillers CHEP

ML111, leading and motivating

I have completed and enjoyed this leading and motivating course. the proof is in the pudding. however, I feel the topic even though somewhat controversal is worthwhile and will help me in developing a better understanding of how and when to take charge of a situation.

Steven Borchert

EQ vs Technical - Which do you remember?

I was relating back to my experiences as student over the years and began to think about those instructors that had the most impact on my life, or that I had fond memories about. Interestingly enough, itâ€™s those that had high EQ. Iâ€™m not use about the technical skills, since as the student itâ€™s hard for me to measure, though the soft skills are readily apparent. I we expect good feedback, and customer satisfaction; we need to assure this skill is present.

Shaneka Frederick