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Educating the 21st Century Workforce Millennial: Training Wheels Required
Type of Presentation
Shared
Session Abstract
Preparing workforce ready millennials can be analogous to learning to ride a bike. A riding period with training wheels, then a supportive, guiding push and away they go.
Target Audience
Adult higher education faculty, workforce trainers and continuing educators will enjoy a lively discussion regarding the alignment of 21st century workforce education, development, and training with baseline workforce structures. This interactive presentation will discuss how learning styles often conflict, educational and workplace expectations misalign and the failure to establish effective lines of communication are often the result of the lack of knowledge and awareness between the generations.
Learning Outcomes
Learners attending this workshop will develop a two-fold perspective. First, developing an awareness regarding the variant learning styles exhibited among the different generations; both for the student as well as the facilitator. How these styles provide and promote an environment within which the learners’ as well as that of the facilitator’s expectations exist will be discussed and delineated. Second, awareness of the distilling process when developing assignments that will deliver clearly defined expectations and guidelines promoting higher order thinking and reasoning expected in today’s workforce.
Session Description
The workforce had its first encounter with the millennial college graduate in 2004. A generation born to a rapidly evolving, ubiquitous technologically centered world inclusive within not only the education process but also to day-to-day life, thus altering the way this generation interacts with the world as well as their workforce expectations. Couple this with past generations (e.g. baby boomers) taught or trained within a very structured and formalized environment that began in the home environment with similar concepts of moral and ethical behavior and expectations, was well supported upon entrance to the formal education process, continued into the workforce and conflict results. The presentation will discuss how the educational and workplace expectations, interpretations, and learning styles must evolve to allow these two environmental views to find common ground and cultivate a productive and sustainable 21st century workforce.
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Thursday November 7
Primary Presenter
Dr. Karen Carter, Lincoln Memorial University
Work Title
Assistant Professor