EL SKILL SETS
To optimize your experiential learning (EL) experience, we offer a number of skills development opportunities at each stage of your EL journey: before, during, and after your EL experience.
What are EL Skill Sets?
Pre-EL experience skills help you prepare for your journey:
- Time management
- Communication
- Active listening
- Coordination
- Self-awareness, initiative and self-direction
- Teamwork
- Empathy
- Global and cultural awareness
- Judgment and decision-making
- Job search, résumé, cover letter, and interview skills
- Active listening, recognition of marginalization groups, self-awareness
- Conflict style, preliminary understanding of charity versus justice approaches to community development, conflict resolution
- Reflection
In-process EL skills help you assess your learning and reflect on the process and outcomes:
- Communication
- Leadership and collaboration
- Social perceptiveness
- Judgment and decision-making, negotiation
- Coordination
- Persuasion
- Creativity
- Public speaking
- Active listening
- Self-awareness
- Reflection
- Preparation, time, resources and financial management
- Global and cultural awareness
- Judgment and decision-making, initiative and self-direction
- Personal reflection, journaling, group reflection, critical discussion
Post-EL Experience skills allow you to process, understand and articulate your learning experience:
- Judgment & decision-making
- Self-Awareness
- Reflection: articulation of skill and knowledge gained, integration with program/degree objectives
How you can acquire these skills
Many of these skills are offered by your program, the Student Success Centre (SSC) and Career Counselling and Educational Transitions (CCET). You can build your EL skill set in order to make the most out of your EL experience, and better prepare yourself for your career path.
Graduate students should contact GradProSkills to see workshops that can give your EL skills set a boost
We strongly encourage you to contact your program director to help you select an EL skill set most appropriate for your EL activity, whether it’s an internship, a field school, co-curricular or other EL activity.
Remember to record your acquired skills in your co-curricular record.
