1. Welcome Back Scholars 

2. CTE Department August 27-28, 2012 Ms. Tee
Employability Skills
CTE Department
August 27-28, 2012
Ms. Tee

3. Standard(s)
ELA, Standard 3: Follow precisely a complex multistep procedure when carrying out experiments, taking measurements, or performing technical tasks; analyze the specific results based on explanations in the text.
ELA, Standard 6: Analyze the author’s purpose in providing an explanation, describing a procedure, or discussing an experiment in a text, identifying important issues that remain unresolved.
ELA, Standard 7: Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g., quantitative data, video, multimedia) in order to address a question or solve a problem.
ELA, Standard 9: Synthesize information from a range of sources (e.g., texts, experiments, simulations) into a coherent understanding of a process, phenomenon, or concept, resolving conflicting information when possible.
CCSS Math, S-IC: Making Inferences and Justifying Conclusions
Understand and evaluate random processes underlying statistical experiments
1. Understand statistics as a process for making inferences about population parameters based on a random sample from that population.

4. Objectives
Students will be able to interpret the range of employability skills in order to write a 3-4 sentence on how they plan to use them as part of their career goals.

5. Warm-up
What is the difference between job readiness skills and employability skills?
Do you think employability skills are teachable skills?

6. Vocabulary Accepting Feedback Accountability Active Listening
Ambition/Initiative
Appearance/Hygiene
Attitude
Computer Literacy
Employability Skills
Information Management
Money Management
Problem Solving
Procedure/Rule Following
Public Speaking
Self-Assessment
Self-Control
Supervision
Teamwork
Timeliness
Verbal Communication

7. National Association of Colleges and Employers Job Outlook 2000-2004
Did you know?
The number one thing all career industries want
A positive attitude
Good work habits
General employability

8. Employability skills….really
Important part your learning.
Promotes successful transition from school to work.
Fundamental to creating you as an employable individual. 
Must have skills and knowledge necessary to be good citizens, effective parents, productive workers, and, most of all, life- long learners. 

9. Are you job-ready?
Job readiness skills are clustered into three skill sets:
basic academic skills
higher order thinking skills
personal qualities.
Employability skills are
basic skills necessary for getting, keeping, and doing well on a job.
teachable skills.

10. Activity: Let’s Get Thinking
Think about your future plans for a career & money management.
Each color represents a fact category:
Green -- Personal goals
Dark Brown -- Career(s) that interest you
Yellow -- Hobbies and interests
Orange -- Money management experience
Red -- A fact about money
Blue -- Add your own fact category
Choose three colors/facts that best represents yourself.  

11. Activity: Let’s Get Thinking
Have ever thought about how much money you could “earn” by coming to class?
What would be a reasonable pay rate? Is it per hour, per class, or per day?
Using the pay rate, how much could you earn during your high school career? Support your answer with math modeling or personal experience.

12. Closure/Exit slip: Career Goals Sticky
Think about 2 career goals
Choose 5 employability skills that best represents the career goals
Write 3-4 meaningful sentences on how you plan to reach each goal by way of the 5 employability skills you chose.
Share your career goal plan with two people
Provide feedback that is meaningful, i.e., make a suggestion, share your own experience, ask a probing question

13. Hw 1 & 2. Signatures Send me a professional email
Class Syllabus & Computer Policy Signatures (You & Parent/Guardian)
All due next class meeting:
A day - Aug. 29, 2012
B day – Aug. 30, 2012

14. Hw 2. Personality Wordle Title Page
Go to
Select the "create" option
Insert 100 words that best describe you and your personality.  Your "name" and choice of " mployability_skills.htm " should be inserted 25 times.  No other word should be used more than 15 times.
Print your final "wordle" in color. It will be used as your cover for your engineering portfolio.
Due:
A day - Sept. 5, 2012
B day – Sept. 4, 2012

15. References Employability Skills. Retrieved from
ls/employability_skills.htm
CA /Centricity/Domain/189/em ployability-skills.pdf