Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Week 14 Journal

Journal
Develop a generic cover letter and resume that includes your functional, adaptive and technical skills in addition to your educational and work experience.
QEP: Upload cover letter and resume to live text

Week 15Journal

What is my selling point when I am on a job interview.

Week 15 Discussion Questions

How do you personally prepare both physically and psychologically for an interview?




Share an interview experience that you have had in the past. Did it go well or not? What could you have done better to make your interview more effective?

Week 14 Discussion Questions

What do you feel is the most important piece of information you should include in your resume and cover letter?




Is this your first time writing a cover letter or resume? What was the most difficult part for you in creating an effective resume that best outlines your capabilities and talents?

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Week 11 Discussion Questions

1. How did you go about the process of accessing the needs of the community you wish to serve?







2. What do you anticipate as being the most significant potential challenges of your proposed project being a success?






3. Hypothesize about what learning opportunities your service learning project will offer its participants.

Week 9 Discussion Questions

Based on your reading, offer a critical analysis of the “by-products” of “connecting theory and practice” through service learning.



What does “connecting theory and practice” look like in your primary academic field (beyond the service learning model).

Week 10 Discussion Questions

1. Reflect on a service learning or community service project that you have done in the past. Evaluate whether or not this project was successful in achieving the goals of service learning?



2. If you were instructed to conduct a service learning project in your home community or neighborhood, how if any would it differ for constructing a project for someone else’s community?

Week 8 Discussion Questions

1. Evaluate your communication skills in professional and academic settings. Discuss your strengths and challenges.



2.What role do you see effective communication skills playing in your professional future?

week 7 Discussion Questions

1. Can you relate some of your challenges with that of the faculty members you interviewed?



2. Compare and contrast some of your struggles/challenges with that of the other students, faculty, and classmates.

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

week 6 Discussion Questions

1. Who will you select as a person to interview? Why are you selecting that individual?



2. What do you predict will be the types of challenges you will discover?

week 5 Discussion Questions

1.Compare the descriptive and prescriptive theories of leadership. Explain why both types are useful.



2.Using the behavior approach to leadership, construct a situation that exemplifies the approach, then explain the characteristics of this approach within your situation.

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Week 4 Discussion Questions

1. What are some similarities and difference in the way leadership has been defined?

2.Does it really matter how you define leadership? Explain and defend your position.

Week 3 Discussion Questions

1. Of the 3 Essential Academic Skills discussed in your reading this far, rank them in terms of their importance, provide justification for your choice.

2.What are the lessons you learned from last semester? How will you incorporate those lessons into your success this semester?

3.If you were working as a peer advisor for new freshmen, and were assigned a workshop to provide them tools for success, what would it look like? Post an agenda and a description of your workshop. (QEP) Save a copy of your response to be uploaded into LiveText.

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Week 2 Discussion Questions

From the areas listed on the Plus+/-Delta which areas of Critical Thinking could have made a Delta a plus? Explain.