K-5: Employment Skills
Those work behaviors, abilities, and attitudes necessary to obtain, maintain, and advance in employment
Learner Goal 1
Gain awareness of the relationship between work and learning.
Indicators
- Identify different types of work, both paid and unpaid.
- Describe the importance of preparing for occupations.
- Demonstrate effective study and information-seeking habits.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of practice, effort, and learning.
- Describe how current learning relates to work.
- Describe how one's role as a student is like that of an adult worker.
Learner Goal 2
Gain awareness of the importance of personal responsibility and good work habits.
Indicators
- Describe how personal qualities (such as dependability, promptness, ability to get along with others) are important to getting and keeping a job.
- Demonstrate positive ways of performing work activities.
- Describe the importance of cooperation between workers to accomplish a task.
- Demonstrate the ability to work with people who are different from oneself (for example: in race, age, gender).
Suggested Activities
- Infusion of activites into all curriculum areas
- Simulation of job-seeking process for school and/or classroom jobs, including resumes and applications
- Work simulations to create products cooperatively
- Odyssey of the Mind
- Resource speakers highlighting work habits and attitudes*
- Posters advertising appropriate work habits and attitudes
- Parental assessment of student work habits and attitudes*
- Work habits and attitude inventories
* This and other starred activities facilitate parental involvement.
