·
A
good work ethic – a person, who has a good personality, is an independent
worker, a team member, responsible, and dependable (Meyer 90);
·
High
self-esteem and motivation, leadership skills, effective work habits, and a
knack for learning and adapting to change (Meyer 91-92);
·
Oral,
negotiation, and teamwork skills – listen, respond to both content and feeling
in other people’s words, negotiate and compromise, and participate in group
discussion (Meyer 92).
·
Adaptive
reading and writing skills – reading strategies that rely on navigating,
searching, skimming, and filtering large pools of information (Meyer 94).
·
Ability
to write effective memos, short reports, and briefing paper of one or few
pages; write quick overviews, clear instructions, and careful notes; and
reshape information instead of producing it from scratch (Meyer 94).
·
Computer
skills – informational, systematical, and technological (see bulleted list on
page 95).
·
Focused
on by the Depts. of Labor and Education, who attempts to “nail down exactly
what skills are essential for successful entry into the workplace” (86).
·
Includes
not only the traditionally defined literacies – reading, writing, and math –
but also computer skills, oral communication, teamwork, problem-solving, and
effective interpersonal communication (86).
·
Believes
students, graduates, and businesses should have certain objectives/goals (see
Fig. 6.3 on page 89).
Responsibilities of Teachers
of Tech. Communication (?)
·
Assess
and evaluate curriculum according to workplace demands.
·
Incorporate
activities/assignments that get students actively involved in projects and
writings that would be done in a typical workplace - ones that combine both
oral and written forms of communication.
·
Are
Meyer and Bernhardt suggesting a more vocational type of classroom versus an
academic one? Etiquette classes versus
writing classes?
·
What
to teach students? => Where are the
boundary lines drawn? [writing,
negotiating, communicating, cooperating, etc.]
·
Meyer
and Bernhardt “call for change” but don’t offer solutions…do we have the
answers? If so, what are they?