How to Support Career Technical Instructors to Develop Students’ Professional Skills

This 21-page resource from SRI International explains what instructors need to successfully incorporate professional skills training into their technical courses. The report includes several sections that "define professional skills and their importance to technical careers, [...] describe the learning principles and co-development process, and then summarize instructors and students responses to classroom pilot-testing." The report also reflects on what was learned about the constraints of instructors work conditions and offers recommendations to support community college workforce program leaders and instructors seeking to expand their professional skills programming and outcomes.