Lots of students have a hard time seeing the skills they’re building through their studies or linking those skills to what they're learning. I think schools should focus more on helping students make these connections and become more aware of the strengths they’re developing.

Everything can learned and we can be able to improve in every aspect. Essential workforce skills has to be specific and realistic. 

have to think about attidudes

I have learned the steps to obtaining and maintaining EWS Certification. ACCSC has adopted guidelines and preparation assistance so that any institution can be successful in implementing EWS.

EWS Programmatic Certification is a valuable tool to evaluate current operations, policies, and procedures. Implementing a certification like this will take some time to determine what can be used.

As instructors, we should offer evidence-based activities in higher education. This allows students' learning history, and prerequisites to predict their success. Because when students use evidence-based activities, their learning success improves. They are more motivated to learn and specific behavioral learning aspects aid in the research on self-regulated learning.

The key factors are attitudes, perceptions, and capabilities, which are not only an afterthought but an inherent part of an intervention process that must be nurtured, monitored, updated, and followed.

Applying EWS shall be challenging in many ways. For example, incorporating value and the understanding that concrete skills are different from ambiguous skills as they relate to a workforce environment. The known and the unknown is the key to this interpretation and use.

Defining essential workforce skills in a way that is actionable versus something more ambiguous is a concept I had not considered. I have a difficult time getting my students to see the value in developing these skills, as the lesson pointed out, students often see non-technical skills as "fluff." Moving forward, I think we will revisit how we define esstential workforce skills and work to incorporate self-reflection activities more intentionally throughout our programs. 

Documenting and verifying outcomes is very important when implementing an ESW. This programmatic Certification ensures that students have the necessary skills to be successful in the workplace.