Lesson activity focused on self-reflection on one's workplace attitude. Includes assessment and videos. Attitude: What's the Big Deal? From recommendations by interviewees for additional resources to support faculty in developing curriculum for employability skills.
View This 50-item instrument measures work attitudes by asking respondents to indicate on a 7-point Likert-type scale how they describe themselves at work. Some of the descriptors used are "dependable", "stubborn", "independent", "accurate", and "ambitious".
View This 50-minute, 291-item test checks for categories of career interest: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, or Conventional. About $112 per booklet with answer sheet. Key tool for guidance counselors.
View This 25-minute, 60-item assessment is administered by paper to groups of secondary students to check on various skills in life management, emotional intelligence, job search skills, transition to work, and career management skills. About $51 for 25 booklets.
View This 15-minute 100-item assessment may administered to individuals or groups online. It is a promising assessment intended to measure executive function in children and youths. About $92 manual; $329 per complete online kit for 25; $549 for complete software.
Authors recommend techniques such as providing learners with guidelines and/or prompts to list subtasks needed to complete a larger task, the resources and tools needed to complete each subtask, and ways to prioritize each subtask by importance to achieving the goal. They recommend offering learners
Authors recommend techniques such as showing examples of excellent work and discussing what elements make it excellent and providing clear guidelines about how product excellence is the goal--not mere "effort." From Wilson, M., & Gerber, L. E. (2008). How generational theory can improve teaching: strategies
View This site provides online access to actual secondary student on-the-job experiences and interviews with men and women who work in different advanced manufacturing careers in Florida describing their jobs.
View This site offers engaging classroom materials designed to enrich science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) classes. These instructional resources provide secondary students with real world scenarios relevant to STEM and the technician careers in engineering technology. Each lesson plan gives teachers the materials needed to
Download Developed for the North Carolina Community College System, this eight-module toolkit is designed to support instruction of high school students to perform high-demand employability skills: Interpersonal/teamwork skills (Mod. 1), Communication skills (Mods. 2 & 6), Adapting to workplace expectations (Mods. 3, 4, 5 and