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This lesson is
taught deductively, leading the students from generalizations
about life skills necessary to adult life to particular instances
of these skills used in various careers. Look at the specific
benchmarks before discussing life skills with your students.
Help them to arrive at their own reasonable definitions within
the context of career use of the skills.
Procedure |
- Hand out the Student
Activity, Taxonomy
of Life Skills, and Data
Recording Sheet.
- Discuss
with students that this list of life skills is a description
of what adults
must know
and be able to do to function in modern society.
- If students
are unsure about what any of the skills means, add
into the discussion the materials you read in the Benchmarks
section
of
the McREL
Web
site during your Preparation for this lesson.
- Students will choose three life skills to list
on their Data Recording Sheets, color code, and define.
- Help students brainstorm specific careers they are interested
in finding out more about in the reference works they have
available.
- Sometimes looking up a well-known career will
lead students to discover that there are other related
careers about
which they know little, but which may be quite interesting
to them.
- Have students choose three careers to research
further, and list them on their Data Recording
Sheets.
- Have students use the reference works provided
to find out more details about their chosen careers.
- Have students identify
in the descriptions of careers any life skills
that are either mentioned or implied, and list
those skills
on their Data
Recording
Sheets.
- If necessary, discuss the manner in which to look for skills
mentioned or implied in the reading material.
- Some students
may need assistance detecting implications in
the text about specific careers. Assistance should
take
the form of guiding
questions such as: "If the "Nature
of the Work" section
for this job says you will be collecting data,
what skills would you need to keep the data available
for later use?" and "If
the "Working Conditions" section for
this job says you will be giving information
to the general public,
what
communication skills would you need?"
- Students firm up their understanding in the last two steps,
in which they fill out sentence stems.
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Curriculum
Connections
Lifeskills Standards Addressed
Grades 9-12 or K-12
Life
Work Standard 5: Makes general preparation for
entering the work force. |
- Determines the types of preparation and training
needed for entry-level jobs.
- Uses multiple resources to obtain information about
prospective jobs.
- Makes an accurate appraisal of prior work experience,
career goals, personal character, job references, and
personal aptitudes.
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Self
Regulation Standard 2: Performs self-appraisal. |
- Performs analysis of employability.
- Summarizes personal educational background.
- Summarizes personal work experience.
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Teaching
Tip
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| Younger students may need to work several
examples as a group before attempting to perform the analysis
on their own. Students who do not read well may need assistance
with the Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH) entries. |
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