Employability Skills
ACP Lesson Plan
| Title: Job Skills for Workplace Success | Author: Nate Anderson |
| Subject(s): Special Education | |
| Grade Level(s): 6 - 12 | Total Time: 60 - 90 minutes |
Overview / Description:
Each activity is designed to help students identify and understand important job skills needed for success in the workplace.
Learning goals/objectives:
Students will be able to:
- Identify general job skills, attributes, and qualities associated with highly successful employees and undesirable employees.
- Define and know the difference between life skills, soft skills, career skills, and employability skills.
- Understand and apply job skills into the workplace.
- Identify personal job skills strengths and weakness.
Workplace Readiness Skill:
| x | Social Skills | x | Communication |
| x | Teamwork | x | Critical Thinking |
| x | Attitude and Initiative | x | Planning and Organization |
Content Standards:
Wisconsin Comprehensive School Counseling Model
Personal/Social Domain
Standard E: Students will demonstrate effective decision-making, problem-solving, and goal-setting skills.
Career Domain
Standard G: Students will acquire the self-knowledge necessary to make informed career decisions.
Standard H: Students will understand the relationship between educational achievement and career development.
Standard I: Students will employ career management strategies to achieve future career success and satisfaction.
Wisconsin Common Career Technical Standards
CD / Career Development
CD1.c.5.m: Distinguish between
appropriate and inappropriate
behavior in a team setting.
CD2.a.2.m: Describe a diverse range
of opportunities available beyond
high school.
CD3.a.6.m: Build an ongoing
awareness of personal abilities,
skills, interests and motivation and
determine how these fit with chosen
career pathway.
CD4.a.9.h: Use positive work qualities typically desired in each of the career cluster’s pathways.
Learning Activities:
Activity One - In small groups, have students research each of the 4 skills listed below and complile a list of abilities for each category.
- Teacher lecture and students take notes
- Students define terms using the internet
- Provide students with informational handout and have large group discussion
1. Define “Life Skills” - Abilities that someone needs to get through everyday living.
2. Define “Soft Skills” - Abilities that someone can use in any career. They’re called “soft” because they’re not skills that define someone’s work, like programming or repairing a car engine.
3. Define “Career Skills” - Abilities that keep someone successful in a job or company, especially as a person gets promoted.
4. Define “Employability Skills” - Abilities someone needs to find a job, apply to it, interview for it, and start working.
Information/resources provided by:
Activity Two
1. Write down a job skill that you feel is a personal strength? why?
2. Write down a job skill that you feel is a personal weakness? why?
Create a cover letter for a job you want. Incorporate your strenght and weakness into your letter.