Employability Skills

This web-quest is designed for any technology class, because it makes students aware of employability skills.

 Academic teachers would also use this type of quest to prepare their students for college. Many of the skills employers look for can translate to college classes (i.e. punctuality, readiness, team work, and self-starter). All teachers can prepare their students beyond this lesson with the classroom management skills we have learned (i.e. assignment deadlines, tardiness, one voice, and co-operative learning).

Depending on the skills of your class as a whole this lesson could take 3 days to a week.

Most of all have the students share their ideas and aptitude test results, because we know student learn from each other.

Standards

Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects.

College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Reading

Key Ideas and Details
1. Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
2. Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.

Craft and Structure
4. Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
7. Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse formats and media, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.*
8. Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, including the validity of the reasoning as well as the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence.

Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
10. Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts independently and proficiently.

College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Writing

Text Types and Purposes*
2. Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.
3. Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details and well-structured event sequences.

Production and Distribution of Writing
4. Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
5. Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.
6. Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others.

Research to Build and Present Knowledge
7. Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects based on focused questions, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.
8. Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, assess the credibility and accuracy of each source, and integrate the information while avoiding plagiarism.
9. Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.

Credits

I would like to thank;

1) Google Images for all the pictures that were used.

2) You-tube for "What Employers Want" and "5 employability skills".

3) "The Workplace" AUTHOR; Dr. Jacquelyn P. Robinson, Community Workforce Development Specialist, jrobinso@aces.auburn.edu

4) "What Employers Want"; Slide Share, ©2006,WilliamP.Breitsprecher&BreitLinks;
http://www.slideshare.net/bogeybear/employability-skills.

5) "Aptitude Test"; University of Kent U.K.; http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/psychotests.htm