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Necessary Skills Now Network Module Module 3 – Integrity and Professionalism

Download Developed for the North Carolina Community College System, this eight-module toolkit is designed to support instruction of high school students to perform high-demand employability skills: Interpersonal/teamwork skills (Mod. 1), Communication skills (Mods. 2 & 6), Adapting to workplace expectations (Mods. 3, 4, 5 and

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Necessary Skills Now Network Module 2 – Communications

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Necessary Skills Now Network Module 1 – Interpersonal Skills and Teamwork

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Presentation rubric

Download Faculty or students may use this rubric to score the quality of presentations. From Ume, C., & Timmerman, M. (1995). Innovative communications oriented design projects in mechatronics courses. IEEE Transactions on Education, 38(3), 223–229.

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Model for designing service learning approach to developing technical communication skills

Download Faculty may use this model to design service learning activities for their technician students. From Tucker, M. L., McCarthy, A. M., Hoxmeier, J. A., & Lenk, M. M. (1998). Community service learning increases communication skills across the business curriculum. Business Communication Quarterly, 61(2), 88-99.

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Model of how communication skills progress over the course of a curriculum over several years

Download Faculty can use this model to plan their own expectations for technician students' learning about communication over time. From Teles, V. M., & de Oliveira, C. E. T. (2003, March). Reviewing the curriculum of software engineering undergraduate courses to incorporate communication and interpersonal skills teaching.

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Sample communication skills for engineers

Download This is a list of technical communication skills needed by engineers. May be adapted to suit technicians. From Selfe, C. L. (1983). Decoding and encoding: A balanced approach to communication skills. Engineering Education, 74(3), 163–64.

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Ways to increase and change writing activities over time

Download Faculty may use this model to develop a series of progressively more challenging and work-relevant writing activities across different technical courses in a program. From Roppel, T. A., Hung, J. Y., Wentworth, S. W., & Hodel, A. S. (2000). An interdisciplinary laboratory sequence in electrical

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Sample writing activities in technical courses

Download Faculty may use this list to develop a set of writing tasks for technical courses. From Pomykalski, J. J. (2006). Constructing integrated writing assignments for the IS curriculum. Journal of Information Systems Education, 17(2), 171–183.

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Topics for computer ethics discussions

Download Faculty may use this list of topics to design discussion activities about issues in a technical field. From Polack-Wahl, J. A. (2000). It is time to stand up and communicate [computer science courses]. In proceedings in the 30th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference (pp. F1G–16).