Work Samples

The Role of Training and Development in Fostering Inclusion in the Workplace is a Theory-to-Practice paper I wrote for Portland State University College of Education's Comprehensive Project course (COMPs). I learned while researching ideas for this project that there is a lot of evidence that leadership has a large impact on how inclusive a workplace culture is. I wanted to explore how training and development fits into that as a department that tends to work with employees from all departments in a corporate environment. The presentation above is an overview of my paper, but if you are interested in reading my paper, let me know via email (lilahbenjamin@gmail.com)!

Inclusion in the Workplace was a project I created for Strategies of E-Learning. The purpose of the project was to take an idea for a training or an already developed training and adapt it to a long term online course. My project was derived from research I had done for my COMPs presentation and was proposed as a seven week course that included some gamification techniques, online discussion, and a few virtual live sessions. Before this project, I had never created a full training proposal so I am proud of the work I came up with.

The Support of AI in Training and Education is a paper I wrote for my Strategies of E-Learning course. The paper was supposed to be about a technological advancement related to Training and Development. I chose to write a paper that asked the question "How can artificial intelligence be used to support the creation of training and educational materials and what are the benefits?" I found many articles that researched different AI sources in creating lesson plans, handouts, and assignments for educators as well as script writers and AI video creation. 

This is one example of a slidedeck that I made for the Leadership Fellows course offered by Portland State University Student Activities and Leadership Programs. I co-facilitated this course with the coordinators of the Student Community Engagement Center and the Student Sustainability Center. This lesson was focused on identifying personal values and creating a leadership philosophy. I provided a few examples of my own leadership philosophy to demonstrate what it can look like before the students created their own versions.

This is a facilitation guide for a lesson that I adapted for the Leadership Fellows course at Portland State University (PSU). I had received a lesson created by Sean Fisher that had students envisioning their ideal future of PSU and creating vision boards that represented their visions. The cohort I co-facilitated was focused on service and sustainability, so our student leaders were more invested in the Portland community and they did not serve PSU's campus as much as other cohorts. I adapted Sean's lesson to fit our cohort by having students envision their ideal future of the world, focusing on the environment and society. The facilitator's guide follows a format created by my co-facilitators, Melia Hadidian-Tichenor and Serena Dressel. It includes attendance on the first page so we had easy access to fill it in when we used the printed version in class, the materials needed for the day, the agenda and time estimates, class objectives, and the outline for the lesson.