Employability Skills Lesson Plans
For
Want a Great Career? Alaskan Employers Expect
(Click here for poster)
The employability lessons include the following items:
- teacher’s lesson plan
- theme
- quote
- 30-45 minute time frame
- use and application of the Want a Great Career poster
- career path sheet (6 pathways)
- work sheet for each lesson
The goal of the lesson plans is to inspire and motivate teachers to engage students through the use of the Want a Great Career poster. The poster has a wealth of ideas to assist students with their future careers, but what good is the poster if no one applies its skills/competencies, work attitudes, and work values?
Employability Skills Lesson #1
Theme: Education + Work = Life
“There aren’t two worlds – education and work, there is one world – life.”
~Willard Wirtz
Employability Skills Lesson #2
Theme: Career Pathways
“Yagottawanna”
Employability Skills Lesson #3
Theme: Finding Opportunity
“opportunityisnowhere”
Employability Skills Lesson #4
Theme: Learning, a Lifetime Journey
“Life is not a problem to be solved but reality to be experienced.” ~Kierkegaard
Employability Skills Lesson #5
Theme: Success
“The 3 Cs to Success: conviction, commitment, consistency”
Employability Skills Lesson #6
Theme: Coach John Wooden’s Pyramid of Success
www.coachjohnwooden.com
“If you know in your heart that you’ve made the effort to do the best of which you’re capable, that’s not failure, that’s success.” ~Coach John Wooden
Employability Skills Lesson #7
Theme: Reality!
“You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.” ~ Henry Ford
Employability Skills Lesson #8
Theme: Team Building
“TEAM=Together Everyone Achieves More”
Employability Skills Lesson #9
Theme: Oh, The Places You’ll Go
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” Dr. Seuss
Employability Skills Lesson #10
Theme: Skills and Competencies
“There are 3 kinds of people in the world:
- Make it happen.
- Let it happen.
- What Happened?”
Employability Skills Lesson #11
Theme: Work Attitudes
“Take charge of your attitude. If you don’t, someone else will.”
H. Jackson Brown, Life’s Little Instruction Book
Employability Skills Lesson #12
Theme: Work Values/Work Ethic
“People may doubt what you say, but they will always believe what you do.”
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