 Building Student Motivation to Learn: Defining Student Marketability to Potential Employers John Breskey, Ph.D. CSU Fullerton 16 th Annual Teaching Symposium

Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences  Identify and characterize exposures in the home, community, and work environment;  Assess the impact of those exposures on human health;  Develop interventions to prevent adverse human health outcomes.

 “Too much information per lecture, information overload”  “Assignments confusing for people learning occupational safety and health the first time”  “I would assume that 90% of the people in class have no interest in those jobs in the future”

Outcomes  By the time you leave today you will be able to:  Call two new colleagues by name  Recognize the 3 elements of the Community of Inquiry  List two skills you possess that will help you land a job as a Health and Safety Professional

Community of Inquiry Framework Garrison, D. R., T. Anderson, and W. Archer Critical inquiry in a text-based environment: Computer conferencing in higher education. The Internet and Higher Education, 2 (2–3): 1–19.

Social Presence Ability of learners to project themselves socially and emotionally, to be “real people” Socio-emotional climate Shaped by collaborative activities Increased Learning Learner Satisfaction Collaborative Activities

Knowledge Check  Questions on your note guide  Take 2 minutes to answer questions on your own as best as you can  Circulate throughout room and introduce yourself to someone you don’t know  Try to help each other answer questions or discuss your answers.  Meet one more new person and check responses

 What does OSHA stand for? What do they do?  Occupational Safety and Health Administration  How many people do you think die at work everyday in the US?  ~12  What is an MSDS?  Material Safety Data Sheet

 How would you best protect a worker that has to handle paint thinner for his job?  Say an employee fell and broke her arm in the parking lot of her workplace. Should that injury be covered by worker’s compensation?

#29 Guided Teaching  Silberman, M. Active Learning: 101 Strategies to Teach Any Subject  Thoughts on how it might work for your classroom?  #26 Guided Note Taking

Cognitive Presence  “the extent to which learners are able to construct and confirm meaning through sustained reflection and discourse” Garrison & Arbaugh (2007) Sustained reflection Discourse

Occupational Health and Safety Profession  Occupation health and safety is profession of protecting the social, mental and physical well-being of workers.

Safety Professionals  Gender:  Approximately 12% of CSPs are female  Salary  $99 K average for CSP (BCSP 2009)  $68 K average for all safety professionals (IH&SN, 2008)  CSP certification adds $10 K (ASSE, 2004) 14 Note: This salary data is not independently obtained and may not be objective

Health Safety Professional  Role:  Point person that must anticipate, identify and evaluate hazardous conditions and practices.  Leader that brings supervisors and employees together to develop hazard control methods, procedures and programs.  Serve as the advisor to management on hazard controls and be the author of hazard control programs.  Teach the company by preparing, conducting, and coordinating effective training classes  Duties  Lead environmental and safety committees and teams  Stays abreast of current (EPA, OSHA) and emerging laws, regulations and trends  Arrange for annual medical monitoring  Ensure first aid management through first aid and follow up to injuries

Group Resume! 1. Groups of 4 2. Pool your collective experience to create a group resume!  You are trying to get a Safety Professional job 3. Things you may include 1. Educational background; schools attended 2. Knowledge about class topics 3. Job experience 4. Positions held 5. Skills 6. Hobbies, talents, travel, family 7. Accomplishments 4. Things you might want to learn from this class to make the resume stronger

Teaching Presence  “the design, facilitation, and direction of cognitive and social processes for the purpose of realizing personally meaningful and educationally worthwhile learning outcomes.” Instructional Design and Organization Select Content Organize Content Present Content Facilitating Discourse Review and comment on responses Identifying areas of agreement and disagreement Raise questions and make observations Direct Instruction Focusing discussion Injecting sources of information Diagnosing understanding Scaffolding learner knowledge

Outcomes  By the time you leave today you will be able to:  Call two new colleagues by name  Recognize the 3 elements of the Community of Inquiry  List two skills you possess that will help you land a job as a Health and Safety Professional

Setting the Climate  LET’S GET THEM A JOB!!!! LET’S GET THEM A JOB!!!!