MS.30 Identifying Important Skills for All Careers (PowerPoint)
This LifeKnowledge Lesson MS.30, “Identifying Important Skills for All Careers,” is a middle school FFA lesson that teaches students the essential skills needed for career success. Students identify and define career skills, assess their own current skill levels, and distinguish between positive and negative work habits through job-skill brainstorming, a self-assessment lab sheet, and role-play activities. It includes transparencies, a matching test, and a comic-strip assessment rubric.
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- Identify and define the essential skills for career success.
- Assess his or her own current skill level.
- Distinguish between positive and negative work skills.
- Time required
- Instruction time for this lesson: 50 minutes.
- Grade level
- Middle School
- Materials
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- Overhead project or computer projector
- MS.30.TM.A
- MS.30.TM.B
- MS.30.AS.A—one per student
- MS.30.Assess—one per student
- MS.30.Test—one per student
- Role-play cards
- Unit
- Stage One of Development—ME
- Problem Area
- What Foundational Skills Do I Need for Career Success?
- Precepts
- I5: Demonstrate exemplary employability skills.
- Key Terms
- Communication, Responsibility, Courtesy, Dedication, Cooperation, Honesty, Integrity, Technical ability
- Resources
- National FFA Organization's Essential Learnings, 2002; Popov, Linda Kavelin. The Virtues Project Educator's Guide. Torrance, CA: Jalmar Press, 2000; Ricketts, Cliff. Leadership: Personal Development and Career Success. Delmar Thompson Learning, 2003
Downloads & Links
Lesson plan
Presentation
Aligned Standards
National Standards
- NL-ENG.K12.8Students use a variety of technological and information resources to gather and synthesize information and to create and communicate knowledge.