Course Number: SS100
Course Title:
World of Work
STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES
General
1.
Students will examine and explain individual interests, abilities, attitudes,
and work experience/training that will enhance their ability
to obtain,
maintain, and perform their chosen profession to the best of
their ability.
2. Students will explore and identify a
variety of occupations that will best fit their individual needs,
desires and abilities in hopes that
long or short lasting employment decisions
are ones that will be both fulfilling and beneficial.
3. Students will compile information and be given opportunities to
practically apply the process in which one searches, applies,
interviews,
secures, performs, changes, and terminates a job, profession or career in a
manner that will not hinder their ability to
seek employment elsewhere
or at a later date.
4. Students will show in written exercises,
group work, mock interviews, jab related scenarios, and verbally how
decision making
processes, personal or professional, can affect their
ability, positively or negatively, in obtaining, maintaining and securing
employment. The will be introduced to the evaluation methods most commonly
used by employers. Ways in which to set personal
and profession goals that
will maximize their ability to succeed in their chosen profession. They will
be introduced to a variety of
changes that can and will take place
over the course of time in all work-related fields.
Specific
1.
Students will examine and explain how their individual interests, abilities, and
experience/training will enhance their
ability to obtain, maintain, and perform their chosen profession to the best of their ability. They will
demonstrate
productive work habits, attitudes, and ethics.
a. Given definitions,
lectures, group
> discussions and
individual seatwork students will
> define and describe
the various reasons
why
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people are employed.
b. Through surveys,
interest testing and
worksheets students
will explain in writing and
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through class
presentations what individual
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interests, abilities,
and work experience are needed in their chosen
field of interest or current
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employment position
c. Given a variety of resources in which to locate career opportunities
that appeal to the student the student will list and explain all
the factors
that they will need to consider before choosing a field they wish
to explore as a possible career choice.
d. The instructor will give mock applications, a variety
of resume formats, and personal interviews that the students
will complete
to a satisfactory level depending on what field they pursue.
e. Using the classroom as a mock place of employment throughout the
semester students will demonstrate productive work habits,
attitudes, ethics.
2. Students will explore and identify a variety of occupations that will
best tit their individual needs, desires and abilities in
hopes that long or short lasting employment decisions are ones that will be
both fulfilling and beneficial.
a. Through lectures, class discussions, group and individual work
students will identify and distinguish between the fifteen-(15)
occupational
clusters.
b. Students will be instructed on and display their understanding and
knowledge of different methods to gather information and use
resources available to them to locate and secure employment.
c. Students will prepare an individual occupational project (IOP) that will
test their knowledge and level of understanding of all they
have learned in
class up to this point and present this project to the class.
3. Students will compile information and be given opportunities to
practically apply the process in which one searches,
applies, interviews,
secures, performs, changes, and terminates a job, profession or career in
ways that will not hinder
their ability to seek employment elsewhere or at a
later date.
a. Students will use the computer lab
and do a variety of job searches on the internet. The instructor will give
three separate
clusters that will be explored and the student will choose one occupation from each cluster to investigate
thoroughly.
b. Students will gather and submit three letters of recommendation from
classmates. Proper format will be checked and letters will
be revised by
students and returned to submitters for approval and signature.
c. The instructor will give overhead transparencies on a variety of resume
formats and explain how each should be drawn up
correctly. Students will
pick the format that best fit their individual employment needs and prepare and
submit the resume first
to a peer for revision comments, re-due and turn
into instructor for revision. A third draft will be submitted if errors or confusion
arise.
d. Students will be given two copies of an identical job application.
Students take 15 minutes to fill out an application in class and
turn in it.
The other will be assigned as homework due three days later. Students will recognize the
difference between filling out
an application at a personnel office where
the environment can be pressuring and uncomfortable vs. taking one home and
working on it
at a leisurely pace ensuring all the pertinent information is correct and
organized.
e. Students will show their understanding and abilities to successfully
pass an initial job interview set up by the instructor.
Students will have
the opportunity to be both applicant and employer conducting the
interview.
f. Students will show their knowledge, understanding, and ability to
terminate employment under circumstances that will either
hinder future employment opportunities or perhaps regain employment from their
previous job in the future.
4. Students will show in written exercises, group work, mock job related
scenarios, and verbally how decision making
processes, personal or
professional, that can affect their ability, positively or negatively, in
obtaining, maintaining and
securing employment. The will be introduced to
the evaluation methods most commonly used by employers. Ways in
which to set
personal and profession goals that will maximize their ability to succeed in
their chosen profession. They will
be introduced to a variety of changes
that can and will take place over the course of time in any work-related
field.
a. The instructor will
provide students with a variety of scenarios that deal with work related
decision making (ranging from
beneficial to reasons for termination) that
the students will face in
a
practical setting.
Students will be given multiple choice
solutions and
will
provide their own solutions to each scenario. They will make
their choices then explain verbally all the
outcomes that can
possible arise from their decisions. Students will role play in class a
given work environment with these
decisions visual apparent.
b. Students will show their
understanding of how to appear and behave during follow-up (second)
interview assuming the
employment application is with the interviewer at that time.
c. Given a multiple
choice work scenario essay students
will
read their essay and
label the choices they find most appropriate when
confronted by them.
d. Instructor will pose a variety of realistic, verbal and written
changes that will occur over a period of time during ones
employment in any occupation cluster. After group discussion students will write in
short essay answer format, how they will
deal with these changes to ensure
their work environment will remain comfortable and their employment
secure.
e. Students will list all the "wants" and
"needs"
they wish to fulfill through gainful employment.
They will prioritize this
into a list by ranking
their order of importance. They will give ways
in which to meet their set goals. They will
modify this list
for the remaining of the
semester.
f. Given a standard employment evaluation
form students will show their understanding and
knowledge of each item evaluated by
accurately
and honestly, to the best of their ability, filling
out and receiving them through the semester.
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