HS.39 Keeping a Job
This LifeKnowledge lesson (HS.39 “Keeping a Job”) teaches high school students the employability skills that make a valuable employee, based on the personal qualities identified in the SCANS report, along with common reasons people get fired. Through discussion, small-group activities, and interactive review techniques, students learn to list and explain key workplace skills and identify behaviors that lead to job loss.
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- List and explain employability skills of a valuable employee.
- List 10 reasons people get fired.
- Time required
- Instruction time for this lesson: 50 minutes (could stretch to 100 minutes).
- Grade level
- High School
- Materials
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- Writing surface
- Overhead projector or visual presenter
- HS.39.Test.A—one per student
- HS.39.TM.A
- HS.39.TM.B
- Unit
- Stage One of Development—ME
- Problem Area
- How Do I Begin to Grow?
- Precepts
- I5 Demonstrate exemplary employability skills.
- Key Terms
- SCANS, Responsibility, Self-management, Sociability, Self-Management, Integrity/Honesty
- Resources
- What Work Requires of Schools: A SCANS Report for America 2000, The Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills, U.S. Department of Labor, June 1991.
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Aligned Standards
National Standards
- NSS-C.9-12.2Foundations of the Political System — What values and principles are basic to American constitutional democracy.