sna where are your students going 2016
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Where Students are Going: American Higher Education
and Culture
Purpose/Preview
• To inform, encourage, & enlighten SNA faculty on higher education in the United States, potential experiences, and challenges.
• To outline the hard skills and soft skills students will need to be successful in American colleges.
What skills and
characteristics do
your students need
in order to be
college-ready?
Hard skills vs. soft skillsHard skills Soft skills
Can be learned from a book Cannot be learned from a book
Academic Social and interpersonal
IQ EQ
More easily measured Not as easily measured
Ex. Mathematical computations and typing speed
Ex. Collaboration and time management
Identifying hard skills and soft skills
o Working in groupso Labelling DNAo Networkingo Self-awarenesso Personal habitso Using a microscopeo Patienceo Citing sources in a papero Writing computer codeo Creating a group presentationo Putting events on a timelineo Create one of your own
Balancing skills
Hard skills
Soft skills
What does a college
classroom look like?
Probably not this.
It might look like this…
or this…
or this…
or even this.
What can you do in
your classroom to
blend hard skills and
soft skills?
Group work
Presentations
Think-Pair-Share
Active Problem Solving
Reflective Practice
Self-evaluation and peer-evaluation
What are the
challenges to helping
students develop hard
and soft skills in the
classroom?
What support and resources do you need in order to help students
develop a blend of hard and soft skills so students can be college-ready?
Final Questions?
• Nick Fortune, Math Ed PhD student
• Andrea Gambino, English Teacher
• Katie Green, Science Ed PhD student