Soft Skills
Curriculum Design and Examples
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"MJ demonstrated that she could prioritize, organize, and be thorough, all the while maintaining a positive attitude and being an excellent team member among her peers and providers." - Kathryn Trueheart, PA-C, Division of Urology, Letter, 2022
Being a manager means supporting staff in all ways, including training, career career, and personal development.
It is the manager's responsibility to provide guidance or resources.
In education, sometimes lessons in behavior were more important than math, given the circumstances.
"School is two parts ABCs to fifty parts, Where do I stand in the great pecking order of humankind?" ~ Author Barbara Kingsolver
Soft Skills of my own:
Closed-loop communication
Inquiry-based problem solving
Work efficiently and utilize resources
Smart adventurer and a responsible guide
Professional, reliable, assertive, appropriate sense of humor
Open to feedback, resilient
Diligent, dynamic, inclusive, committed, and attentive to detail
2011, Mt. Adams, ME
Intensives
Intensives
2016-2018, Venture Academy
2016-2018, Venture Academy
Venture Academy breaks from their normal curriculum for two weeks for a program called Intensives, in which teachers collaborate in pairs or triples to cover highly specialized topics.
Get Real: Physics, Art, and History of Perception Versus Reality
Get Real: Physics, Art, and History of Perception Versus Reality
Presenting the concept of Perception of reality provided students an opportunity to explore why it is that we react the way we do.
Example Lesson: Opening Activity: Music Video, Slides
Thrillseekers: Physics, History and Psychology of Adventure
Thrillseekers: Physics, History and Psychology of Adventure
As soft skills, students explored concepts such as desensitization and tolerance, and why some students were fans of horror, for example.
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Can You Hear Me Now?
Can You Hear Me Now?
The history and physics of communication and transportation advancements and how they specifically affected war in the US, such as horses, radio, telephone, computers, airplanes, and helicopters
Developed card game teaching students about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning
Reducing fears of AI
Exploring examples of teaching tools with tangible games
"Mary Jean is professional and courteous, empathetic and reasonable, thorough and efficient. She is good at prioritizing, learning new systems, seeing the big picture, and giving it her all." Letter, 2022
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