AHS.8 Skill Development – Employability Skills for the 21st Century (PowerPoint)
This LifeKnowledge lesson (AHS.8), “Skill Development: Employability Skills for the 21st Century,” teaches students about the competencies, skills, and personal qualities employers seek, based on the SCANS report. Students identify the five competencies and three categories of skills/personal qualities needed in today’s workplace and develop a plan for advancing their own employability skills through assessment, classroom, FFA, and SAE activities.
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- Identify the competencies, skills, and personal qualities needed to succeed in today's workplace.
- Develop a plan for advancing his or her competencies, skills, and personal qualities that employers seek.
- Time required
- Instruction time for this lesson: 50 minutes.
- Grade level
- Advanced High School
- Materials
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- Writing surface
- Overhead projector
- AHS.8.TM.A
- AHS.8.TM.B
- AHS.8.TM.C
- AHS.8.TM.D
- AHS.8.AS.A
- AHS.8.AS.B—one per student
- AHS.8.Test—one per student
- AHS.8.Assess—one per student
- Unit
- Stage One of Development-ME
- Problem Area
- Who Am I in Light of Serving Others?
- Precepts
- I5: Demonstrate exemplary employability skills.
- Resources
- Carnevale, A. P., L. J. Gainer, and A. S. Meltzer Workplace Basics: The Essential Skills Employers Want. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1990.
- Key Terms
- Employability skills; Resource competencies; Interpersonal competencies; Information competencies; Systems competencies; Technology competencies; Basic skills; Thinking skills; Personal qualities
Downloads & Links
Lesson plan
Presentation
Aligned Standards
National Standards
- NL-ENG.K-12.8Students use a variety of technological and information resources to gather and synthesize information and to create and communicate knowledge.