Skills Essential to the Workforce Lesson Plan

Concept:

The importance of essential skills as a foundation for success in any workplace.

Student learning associated with this concept can support achievement of provincial learning outcomes:

NB 2, 3, 4
NL 1, 3, 4, 11
NS 2, 4, 5, 7, 10
PEI 2, 3

Rationale:

“Essential skills are used in nearly every job and at different levels of complexity. They provide the foundation for learning all other skills and enable people to evolve with their jobs and adapt to workplace change”.

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This lesson presents an opportunity for teachers to collaborate in supporting student learning about the role of self-assessments in career planning. In addition to Career Education courses, teachers can consider how students are able to meet cross curricular learning outcomes in other courses such as English/French Language Arts, Multimedia, Social Studies etc. This cross curricular approach also supports a unified approach in addressing the “why” of what they are learning. Students can develop an awareness of how and why what they are learning connects to them, their community and their future.