What I learned in this section was the importance of soft skills. That your verbal communication skills, and your written communication skills are very important. I learned to find common ground when participating with a class. That having teamwork skills are important and how to create teamwork skills. Learning how to recognize and understand body language. This course also touched on how to present and conduct yourself during a job interview.

AI needs to be addressed while we are all, in some way or another, in agreement that computer literacy is elemental and certainly not enough. Yet-we need to start with a base of usage and proficiency, but probably those learning outcomes need to be updated!~

Define "learning." Important not to minimize and shrink this concept to a minor dialogue. Millions of words have been written on this subject and should be regarded in a mature and meaningful way.

At times when teaching"gifted" students, they see group work as a possible danger to their grade. So-I steer clear from a group grade and that usually assuages their fear.

WAC and WID is almost always appreciated by students because these tasks (usually) are meaningful and directly connects them to what they are learning at the time. In other words, they see the relevancy and believe the writing has value for them to understand performance tasks they are doing in other classes. Years ago, some teachers thought that composition was the sole responsibility of the ENG department folks---we are glad that changed!

Most important to include the CT (critical thinking) aspect in this module and I am glad to see this aspect included in "soft skills." Also, the dimension of creativity is absolutely needed in problem-solving and being solution oriented.

I had one class last year where I experienced the Gen Z stare in real time. It was a challenge due to the class size; I think there was no where for any of them to hide in the crowd. It took a lot of patience on my end to meet them where they were and continue to make sure I was observing and listening to the class in order to cover the content. I pivoted a lot during the lessons and created activities on the fly (more small group work) than I had planned on, but at the end… >>>

When teaching a class, it is important to use the same skill set you are trying to teach your students. The art of communication is being eliminated by text and email and we have a generation that does not know how to effectively communicate within a group.

I was surprised at the list of the 10 soft skills. I'm not sure I knew the definitive list of them all. It was interesting to learn them and think about how they are applied in the classroom. 

I learned the importance and value of EQ.