Practice – Page 3 – Promoting Employability Skills

03/19/2020 In Communication, Employability Skills, Faculty Tools, Learning Principle, Practice, Resource

Sample communication activities to include in simulated work environment

Download Faculty can use this sample of organizational communication activities to create their own set for work simulation activities. From Jeyaraj, A. (2010). Business process elicitation, modeling, and reengineering: Teaching and learning with simulated environments. Journal of Information Systems Education, 21(2), 253–264.

03/19/2020 In Communication, Employability Skills, Faculty Tools, Learning Principle, Practice, Resource

Sample memo from simulated work environment

Download Faculty may find this sample memo a useful model for creating their own communication assignments in workplace simulation actvities. From Gerhard, G. C. (1999). Techniques in a pseudocorporate environment [engineering education]. IEEE Transactions on Education, 42(4), 255–260.

03/19/2020 In Communication, Employability Skills, Learning Principle, Practice, Resource

Sample of issues industry partners can discuss

Download This tool may serve as a model for designing a series of class discussions led by industry visitors. These discussions are intended to engage technical students in current issues in a technical field. A debate activity is recommended for students. From Feldman, J. M., & Hirshorn,

01/07/2020 In Employability Skills, Learning Principle, Practice, Resource, Teamwork

Sample Elements of Team Contract (Kruck & Teer)

Kruck & Teer (2019) specify 5 elements of a team contract.

01/01/2020 In Learning Principle, Practice, Secondary school tool, Support

TK from Will Tyson

A set of pre-publication draft chapters from an upcoming book by project advisor Dr. Will Tyson of the University of South Florida. These chapters are full of the kinds of real-world reactions that secondary educators are likely to hear from students, employers, and fellow instructors