Integrating Employability Skills into Tutorials and Lectures
What does it mean to integrate employability skills into your tutorial and lectures?
Integrating employability skills into lectures and tutorials provide opportunities for students to develop, practice and demonstrate the competencies essential for the workplace, such as communication, teamwork, problem-solving, critical thinking, leadership, adaptability, and resilience.
Integrating employability skills into lectures and tutorials enables instructors to:
- Review and identify the relevant skills and competencies that employers are looking for and relevant to one’s disciplines or subjects.
- Embed opportunities for students to develop, practice and demonstrate employability skills within class activities. For example, by including group work, case studies, or problem-solving activities that require students to work collaboratively and communicate effectively.
- Align assessment and feedback with the specific employability skills identified. For example, assess communication skills by evaluating students' ability to present their ideas clearly and concisely.
- Encourage students to reflect on their competencies and how they relate to their future careers. This can help students understand the relevance of the class content and activities to their professional development and motivate them to continue to develop their employability skills beyond the classroom.