In an ever changing world, the skills and abilities required to develop and succeed within a chosen field can seem overwhelming. As our society has developed from an industrial to knowledge based learning, the skills required are different to those that were learnt in the past. Due to this change in society and the ever increasing technological advances that we have seen, the way in which students learn has evolved.
As our understanding of learning and teaching increases, our methods and expectations also change. With our teaching and learning methods becoming more developed, the skills that students walk away with are also different. With these skills, a new framework that allows skills to be defined and measured needed to be put in place. This need was met by a 2007 report called the Employability Skills framework. This framework focuses on the skills that are required in today's workforce as deigned by research. It gives specific generic skills that all students should have achieved at the end of their study in order to contribute to the workplace upon employment.
Within the report, lifelong learning or transferable skills is an aspect which has particular focus for the profession I have chosen to study. Life long learning can be seen as a broad educational goal in that students continue with their own learning and development both during and after their study has finished. Within the teaching profession, the concept of continually upskilling plays an important role in being a quality employee.
As our understanding of learning and teaching increases, our methods and expectations also change. With our teaching and learning methods becoming more developed, the skills that students walk away with are also different. With these skills, a new framework that allows skills to be defined and measured needed to be put in place. This need was met by a 2007 report called the Employability Skills framework. This framework focuses on the skills that are required in today's workforce as deigned by research. It gives specific generic skills that all students should have achieved at the end of their study in order to contribute to the workplace upon employment.
Within the report, lifelong learning or transferable skills is an aspect which has particular focus for the profession I have chosen to study. Life long learning can be seen as a broad educational goal in that students continue with their own learning and development both during and after their study has finished. Within the teaching profession, the concept of continually upskilling plays an important role in being a quality employee.
As stated by Kember (2007), today's graduates need the type of generic capabilities necessary for life long learning.
This concept of transferable skills is reiterated within the Employability skills framework report (2006), whereby it requires that Enterprises are increasingly seeking a more highly skilled workforce where the generic and transferable skills are broadly distributed across the organisation.
Within the Employability skills framework report, employability skills are defined as 'skills not only required to gain employment, but also to progress within an enterprise so as to achieve one's potential and contribute successfully to enterprise strategic directions'.
When transferred to a classroom context, it can be seen that not only are these skills important in gaining a job, but also that employing life-long learning to increase your knowledge base can only help you to further your career.
Throughout my research, there were many personal qualities and skills that make a good teacher which align with the graduate attributes designed for all CQUniversity degrees. By identifying and concentrating on developing these skills, it will give both current and future students something tangible to work towards. Encouraging and supporting others to achieve their goals are the main characteristics of good teaching, which in turn, promotes student learning. The approaches to teaching coincide with the professional skills that teachers require throughout their degree.
Within this blog, I will demonstrate the specific skills that I have developed throughout my time at CQUniversity and within my personal experiences and display my knowledge of the components required to successfully master each skill.
The skills can be broken down into different attributes. First is the graduate attributes that all CQUniversity students possess on completing their degree. These are listed below. There are also skills that are specific to your degree. The skills that are directly related to my Bachelor of Learning management are also listed. Within this blog I will concentrate on 3 Graduate and 3 degree specific skills which are highlighted within these lists.
Graduate attributes of all CQUniversity degrees
The term "Graduate Attributes" refers to the set of qualities and skills that a university defines as core outcomes for their students. These provide a foundation for students’ employability as well as underlying the development of their human capabilities.
Communication - Graduate Level: Formulate and communicate views to develop an academic argument in a specific discipline.
Information literacy - Graduate Level: Interpret and analyse information from various sources to address a discipline -specific task.
Team work - Graduate Level: Evaluate own strengths and weaknesses as a leader / team member, and / or autonomously working in a team context.
Information technology competence - Graduate Level: Apply appropriate discipline-specific software to provide solutions to questions.
Problem solving - Graduate Level: Formulate strategies to identify, define and solve problems including, as necessary, global perspectives.
Critical thinking - Graduate Level: Reflectively evaluate and think creatively within the context of a specific discipline.
Cross-cultural competence - Graduate Level: Operate effectively within a discipline context in a socially diverse global environment.
Ethical practice - Graduate Level: Articulate an appropriate personal value system, in terms of social behaviour and civic responsibility.
Bachelor of Learning Management: Degree Specific skills
Behaviour management - The design of learning experiences
- Pedagogy
- Organisational skills and planning
- Assessment and evaluation
- Skills to build rapport with learners
- Subject content knowledge and skills
- Developing networks and partnerships
- Working with students with special needs
- Managing and communicating with parents and carers
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