CVTI Director of Education, R.J. Jenkins, looks forward to delivering the keynote address for this year's CALHE conference:
Topic: From Doing to Becoming: Human Skills as the Heart of Applied Learning
Applied learning is often, and rightly, celebrated for giving students valuable “real-world experience,” yet the real world—workplaces, offices, the spaces where we earn our living—tests not only our technical knowledge and professional expertise, but also the noncognitive capacities that make us effective human beings. R.J. Jenkins has spent much of the past decade helping people rethink what we traditionally call “soft skills”—empathy, vulnerability, emotional intelligence, growth mindset, and the ability to navigate impostor feelings—and to understand them instead as the executive functions that make us capable of success in higher education and workforce settings. In this talk, he will offer a framework for understanding why many applied-learning challenges may actually be human challenges in disguise, as well as practical strategies for integrating these essential capacities into program design to strengthen student readiness and performance.
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