Teaching Transversal Skills for Engineering Students
A Practical Playbook of Activities with Tangibles
9782889157310
Distributed for EPFL Press
Teaching Transversal Skills for Engineering Students
A Practical Playbook of Activities with Tangibles
A guide for engineering instructors that offers engaging approaches to teaching transversal skills.
How can we better prepare engineering students to work together on dynamic, complex problems? Transversal skills are essential to maximizing the potential of technical expertise, particularly when working across disciplines, cultures, and contexts.
Teaching Transversal Skills for Engineering Students provides a practical approach for developing students’ transversal skills based on the 3T PLAY Trident framework and evidence-informed experiential learning approaches. Designed to enable higher education instructors to improve how transversal skills are taught, this book provides: graphical activity outlines with timing, mode, and materials; downloadable handouts and slides; a review of why transversal skills should be explicitly taught, which skills are under-addressed, and conditions that support students to develop skills; evidence-informed conceptual summaries and practice based tips; and a backward design structure to create new activities to teach transversal skills.
How can we better prepare engineering students to work together on dynamic, complex problems? Transversal skills are essential to maximizing the potential of technical expertise, particularly when working across disciplines, cultures, and contexts.
Teaching Transversal Skills for Engineering Students provides a practical approach for developing students’ transversal skills based on the 3T PLAY Trident framework and evidence-informed experiential learning approaches. Designed to enable higher education instructors to improve how transversal skills are taught, this book provides: graphical activity outlines with timing, mode, and materials; downloadable handouts and slides; a review of why transversal skills should be explicitly taught, which skills are under-addressed, and conditions that support students to develop skills; evidence-informed conceptual summaries and practice based tips; and a backward design structure to create new activities to teach transversal skills.
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Table of Contents
"BOOK ABSTRACT
THE 3T PLAY PROJECT
3T PLAY FRAMEWORK FOR TEACHING TRANSVERSAL SKILLS – Chapter 1: How to develop engineering students’ transversal skills
3T PLAY ACTIVITY GUIDES FOR TEACHING TRANSVERSAL SKILLS – Chapter 2: How to support students to develop skills that improve collaboration, including retrospective discussions – Chapter 3 : How to support students’ skills for giving each other constructive feedback, especially when it is difficult to hear – Chapter 4: How to support students to develop skills that promote sustainability – Chapter 5: How to support students to develop coaching and peer teaching skills – Chapter 6: How to support students to develop risk assessment and planning skills, especially for team projects – Chapter 7: How to support students to develop skills for cultivating psychological safety in their teams
DEVELOPING ACTIVITIES WITH THE 3T PLAY FRAMEWORK – Chapter 8: How teachers can use the 3T PLAY trident framework to design activities that develop transversal skills"
THE 3T PLAY PROJECT
3T PLAY FRAMEWORK FOR TEACHING TRANSVERSAL SKILLS – Chapter 1: How to develop engineering students’ transversal skills
3T PLAY ACTIVITY GUIDES FOR TEACHING TRANSVERSAL SKILLS – Chapter 2: How to support students to develop skills that improve collaboration, including retrospective discussions – Chapter 3 : How to support students’ skills for giving each other constructive feedback, especially when it is difficult to hear – Chapter 4: How to support students to develop skills that promote sustainability – Chapter 5: How to support students to develop coaching and peer teaching skills – Chapter 6: How to support students to develop risk assessment and planning skills, especially for team projects – Chapter 7: How to support students to develop skills for cultivating psychological safety in their teams
DEVELOPING ACTIVITIES WITH THE 3T PLAY FRAMEWORK – Chapter 8: How teachers can use the 3T PLAY trident framework to design activities that develop transversal skills"