Skills for Success – The Importance of Numeracy Skills in the Workplace and Our Everyday Lives Lesson Plan

Concept:

The role of and need for numeracy skills in multiple aspects of our lives.

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

NB 1, 2, 4, 6
NL 1, 13, 15
NS 1, 2, 5, 7, 10
PEI 2, 4

Rationale:

Through this lesson, students in high school will learn about the importance of numeracy in the context of the Skills for Success framework and how it is needed, used and applied in their learning, their personal lives and achievement of their career goals.

Students may have previously completed personal self-assessments to learn about their skills and interests; they can apply and compare what they have already learned about themselves to the criteria for numeracy skills as identified in the Skills for Success framework.

Through their investigation of numeracy skills students will examine how they use numeracy skills in all aspects of their everyday lives. In considering their personal numeracy skills, students will reflect on their confidence and competency levels including how these can impact them socially, financially, and as future workers.

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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, Fine Arts etc. A cross curricular focus also supports a unified approach in addressing the “why” of what students are learning. Students can develop an awareness of how and why what they are learning connects to them, their community and their future.