Middle School - 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
- Demonstrate effective learning habits and skills.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of personal skills and attitudes to job success.
- Describe how personal attitudes, beliefs, abilities, and skills are related to occupations.
Learner Goal 2
Gain knowledge of skills necessary to seek and obtain jobs.
Indicators
- Demonstrate personal qualities that are needed to get and keep jobs (for example, dependability, punctuality, ability to get along with others).
- Describe terms and concepts used in describing employment opportunities and conditions.
- Demonstrate the skills to complete a job application.
- Demonstrate the skills and attitudes essential for a job interview.
Suggested Activities
- Simulation of job-seeking process
- Resource speakers
- Panel of personnel officers
- Sample of job applications
- Resumes
- Posters advertising appropriate work habits and attitudes
- Work habits and attitude inventories
- Parental assessment of student work habits and attitudes*
* This and other starred activities facilitate parental involvement.
