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Soft Skills for Instructors

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I can not reset the final quiz for a second retrial because there isnoreset button  showing. How can Iproceed or unenroll in ED115 to do it all over again.

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Fostering Soft Skills in the Classroom 

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Enhancing Students' Professional Skills --> Supporting Computer Literacy

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Enhancing Students' Professional Skills --> Supporting Student Professional Growth

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Enhancing Students' Professional Skills --> Teaching Personal Interaction

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Enhancing Students' Professional Skills --> Writing Across the Curriculum

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Enhancing Students' Professional Skills --> Teaching Professional Skill

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I consider, how might I transition to a flipped classroom form of instruction? It seems a bit daunting.  I would start with a lesson I currently teach that has poor results.  I will make changes to the pre and during class lesson objectives and activities.  I need to identify how to grade the pre and during class activities, to ensure that my grading is objective,not subjective. 

I would be interested in hearing from others how best to weight the grading in this style of classroom.  

I always try to be open to other points of view.  I feel you can alway learn SOMETHING from everyone -students, personel, instructors.

If I can learn one new thing a day...it's a win.

Having said all that - I feel we need to bring soft skill values to the classroom for our students to learn.  They lack soft skills..maybe life experience may help, but I would like to be a failitator to help them learn a positive outlook, integrity, and the value of being a team player.

Debi

I believe giving feedback is very important in the classroom. I try to give positive feedback as much as I can because we also need to encourage our students to want to continue learning.

Was a very inlightening course

I liked the point about having stsudents work at corrections slowly. So in each assignment it is not needed to shjow them everythig that needs to be fixed or improved. Work at a few things each time - slow and steady the skills will improve. 

So necessary for teamwork.

I think thru motivation and example studenst get to appreciate The class room. I make them share personal stories and then motivate each other for support.

I like the idea of having students teaching the class.  We actually have a class where the students each get a topic,make a power point and teach their classmates, this helps in the interpersonal, verbal and non verbal communications

  Learning  to write never ends. In clinical setting, we encourage students to write their care about the patients using medical terminologies learned, correct spelling, correct grammar and sentence structures. We validate the progress notes and documentation of care tomake sure  that those documentations are what they meant to say and valid to patient's plan of care. Most of the time I find it difficult for them to write  appropriate plan of care for each patient's condition .

I loved learning more about the Learning techniques

Sometimes it feels like there are so many nice flowery concepts. But no steps to implement.

The goal is to keep a positive climate in the class (everyones attitudes) So there's less behaviors to deal with. :)

I think this can be done by being positive yourself and nipping negativity as quickly as possible.

When I start a class I emphasis that your work is usually the biggest portion of your awake hours so you want it to be a happy place. And I put quotes on the board everyday ex "Be a fountain not a drain." "If you were arrested for being kind would there be enough evidence to convict you?"

I was curious about more suggestions on nipping negativity as quickly as possible.

Without negatively narking "Don't be negative"

I have thought saying "Solution oriented"-meaning let's shift the focus away from the complaining and the problem to what can we do about it.

I also know if a lot of people are upset you cannot ignore it and have it go away. I've had students pull out a piece of paper and give me anonymous feedback. This way they feel that they are heard and someone cares enough to check into it.

Please send me your ideas!

I have seen several types of learning styles at work in my clinical students. There are some who truggle in the didactic portion of their education, but when they get into the clinical portion of their education they really flourish