Learners examine how language can interfere with clear communication. They select examples of ambiguity, assuring expressions, doublespeak euphemisms, jargon, emotive content, false implications, meaningless comparisons, and vagueness. In an interactive exercise, learners identify ways to overcome these barriers.

Learners identify negative roles, match statements characteristic of each role, and relate how they have handled negative teams.

The learner will identify barriers to critical thinking related to internal and external factors after viewing scenarios.

Learners apply knowledge about how productivity is reflected in people, processes, and goals.

Students listen to three telephone messages and enter their evaluation of each one. They then read a list of guidelines for leaving effective messages.

In this interactive object, learners follow six steps for analyzing a process in a manufacturing setting. This activity includes a drag-and-drop exercise and textboxes where learners post their ideas.

Learners watch a commercial for a fictitious product and pose questions to challenge the assumptions made in it.

The learner reviews steps in analyzing a process and applies them to a situation in his/her own work or personal life.

Learners watch a commercial for a fictitious product and pose questions to challenge the assumptions made in it.

Thinking and Intelligence

By Lily Morrow

In this game you will be asked questions pertaining to information learned in "Becoming an Elementary Teacher." Get questions right in order to move through the game but get questions wrong and you'll be stuck in honey!

Read each sentence from the chapter then indicate whether the statement is a fact or an opinion. For every answer you get correct, you will have four chances to match three vegetables in a row.