Hunter Blair

Students need to acknowledge we do not live in a monocultural world and the job and employment landscape will reflect this. 

Teaching Students to be Future-oriented and forward-looking is yet again another process that is developed over time. I do think that students who have the same or similar teachers throughout their high school experience may have a better idea of what they need 

I do find it difficult to teach professionalism when students are in a variety of developmental stages of adulthood. I teach stacked classes with freshmen through seniors. Some take the topic very seriously others do not. 

Employability and leadership skills need to be emphasized in all career technical education classes. 

information technology is a crucial aspect of the present and future workforce. Although teaching these skills in my classroom does not align with my curriculum or topic of welding. 

Having students work in small groups is a necessary activity for students to experience. Their needs to be clear defined roles for each group member. All roles must be intentional and related to the topic at hand. 

Softskills need to be explicitly taught in the shop space, this is something that most shop teachers think is implicit. But if it is never acknowledged or made aware that students are learning about softskils the synthesis of this type of learning will not transpire.

I use a combination of competency-based grading in a letter-grade format. This allows my students to always improve and still understand where they fall within a letter grading system. 

Redirection is necessary when students become off-task. I wait or may do a task that hints at my students they should pay attention and eventually this will win the audience over. 

I use a lot of YouTube videos to demonstrate welding techniques as this is effective for students to visualize without crowding into one booth