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:

[log in to unmask]" type="cite">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