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Hi Miranda -

One thing I found very helpful is for the students to interviewing 
alumni about their job description and duties. The way I have outlined 
is the best way to that your institution can connect with its alumni is 
and is very positive and indicates your institution cares about their 
alumni without asking for money. It also gives the student interviewer a 
chance to get input directly from recent graduates. The interviewer will 
definitely trust the graduate more so than the professor/instructor.

I learned a lot from the interviewees results as to what was useful 
about importance in industry. For example, one results of a practicing 
engineer interviewed stated that more than 90% of the work time involved 
communication and ONLY 10% involved calculations which is totality 
opposite to what students think are even how they are educated in 
school. Most engineering students think engineering is ALL about 
computation and hardly anything about communication - which is ironical 
because engineering practice is much more about communication than 
education. One thing I did ask of the students was ask for a written 
report from each student and an oral presentation from each student but 
I am sure this could very easily being integrated into the TBL format.

Glad to answer any question about the assignment.

Good luck!

Bob


On 2/23/2013 12:05 PM, Hallett, Miranda wrote:
> I am teaching a 2-credit senior year course on "the transition from 
> college to career."  Many of my students are health and sports 
> sciences majors (wanting to be personal trainers, physical therapists, 
> etc.) but they come from various other disciplines as well, including 
> nursing, sociology, early childhood education, art history, and more.
>
> I am not using a full-on TBL format, since we don't really have 
> readings and tests and it is more of a "reflection" class. However, 
> every week I've been giving them application activities in teams that 
> represent possible "real world career" situations. So far, these have 
> focused on scenarios in job searching and interviewing.  I'd like to 
> develop some that are more like "real life job scenarios" now.
>
> Does anyone have any good application exercises that might be suited 
> to this group? Thank you!
>
> Miranda
>
> /Miranda Cady Hallett/
> Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology
> Department of Sociology and Anthropology
> Otterbein University
> 1 South Grove Street
> Westerville, Ohio 43081