Teaching Resources

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Teaching Resources

We identified several teaching tips and resources used by our interviewees or discussed in the research literature suitable for one or more of the stages of employability skills development.

Group Work

To improve teamwork skills, engineering instructors have experimented with rotating roles for students working on ...

Blog links

A list of blog resources. Although mostly technical, some focus on developing lifelong learning skills ...

Professional Excellence Cards

Sample set of employability skills knowledge cards. AMT Pocket Cards Activity From recommendations by interviewees ...

Project Management

Lesson activity providing an overview and practice with tools to support project management. Tools to ...

First Assumptions

Lesson activity focused on developing interpersonal/teamwork skills with those who differ from you. First Assumptions ...

Attitude

Lesson activity focused on self-reflection on one's workplace attitude. Includes assessment and videos. Attitude: What's ...

Globally Competitive Worker

Provides graphics that represent the Federation for Advanced Manufacturing Education (FAME) approach, including a snappy ...

Manufacturing Competency Model

An overview of sample course standards for employability skills in a curriculum. Shows alignment with ...

Illinois Essential Employability Skills

An example of course standards and assessments for employablity skills. Illinois Essential Employability Skills Framework ...

Program Professional Behaviors Example

Provides the Federation for Advanced Manufacturing Education (FAME) example for integrating employabiity skills into a ...

Professional Behaviors Development Structure

Provides overview of the Federation for Advanced Manufacturing Education (FAME) approach to developing employability skills ...

Ticket ratings, onboarding program, and interview topics

Industry approaches to interview questions, onboarding experiences, and rating performance during initial onboarding. These may ...

Interview techniques

Various ways to make challenging job interview questions. Checklist for Interviews From recommendations by interviewees ...

Vigor interview questions

Sample job interview questions to be used to prepare students. VIGOR Interview Questions From recommendations ...

Job Qualification Standard

Template to create custom assessment of internship performance. Klein Tools: Job Qualification Standard From recommendations ...

Teamwork

Rubric to assess team performance for IT students. SLO Rubric - Teams From recommendations by ...

Assignment and Online Discussion Rubrics

Rubrics to assess individual reports and discussions. Assignment Rubric Discussion Rubric From recommendations by interviewees ...

Internship Employer Evaluation surveys

Links to surveys that employers can use to evaluate interns. 2014-2015 Computer Information Technology (AS) ...

National Occupational Competency Testing Institute (NOCTI) Workplace Assessments and Materials

View This website offers access to six different areas of assessment and training materials: job ...

Occupational Work Ethic Inventory (OWEI)

View This 50-item instrument measures work attitudes by asking respondents to indicate on a 7-point ...