Career and Tech Education - Employability Frameworks

Applied Knowledge

• 1.1 Applied Academic Skills

  Applied academic skills are evident daily in homework assignments, classwork, and Q&A exchanges during lessons.

• 1.1.1 Reading skills

  Students apply/demonstrate reading skills by interpreting written instructions/project directions and constructing responses, using print and online materials as resources, completing worksheets, and seeking clarification about what they have read.

• Lesson: A Guide to Reading and Analyzing Academic Articles Interactive Content
• Now You Try Assignment
• 1.1.2 Writing skills

  Students rely on writing skills to construct lab reports, posters, and presentation materials, take notes, and compose responses to essay questions.

• Types of Writing Submissions Interactive Content
• Citing Your Sources Page
• Blogging Assignment
• Starting a Blog Page
• Blogging Assignment
• 1.1.3 Math Strategies/Procedures

  Students use computational skills appropriately and make logical choices when analyzing and differentiating among available procedures. Outside of math class, this includes creating/interpreting tables and graphs and organizing/displaying data.

• Getting Started with Math Assessment and Resources Page
• Charts & Graphs Page
• Create your Charts Assignment
• 1.1.4 Scientific principles/procedures

  Students follow procedures, experiment, infer, hypothesize (even as simple as "what if we do it this way"), and construct processes to complete a task (can occur outside of math/science classes).

• Method to the Madness Assignment
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• 1.2 Critical Thinking Skills

  Critical thinking skills are evident in homework, group work, project-based tasks, and presentations.

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  The benchmarks in this section can be included in many of the written assignments, or presentations listed in these resources. Create a rubric, or additional requirements for how this will be assessed. Examples included below. The rubrics can be added to the evaluation of existing projects in this collection.

  There will be some materials added for addressing them specifically, but these work best when integrated into existing lessons to be used with learners.

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• 1.2.1 Thinks creatively

  Students create innovative and novel ideas/solutions and display divergent thinking. This can be seen in oral presentations and creative writing assignments, open-ended tasks, and project design.

• Divergent Thinking Activity Assignment
• 1.2.2 Thinks critically

  Students display analytical and strategic thinking. This can be seen in debating an issue, converging on an understanding, assessing a problem, and questioning (playing devil's advocate).

• TEACHER RESOURCE: Rubric - Critical Thinking Page
• 1.2.3 Makes sound decisions

  Students differentiate between multiple approaches and assess options (could be linked to thinking critically).

• TEACHER RESOURCE: Rubric - Decision Making Page
• 1.2.4 Solves problems

  Students assess problems involving the use of available resources (personnel and materials) and review multiple strategies for resolving problems (could be linked to thinking creatively).

• TEACHER RESOURCE: Rubric - Problem Solving (includes categories for group work) Page
• 1.2.5 Reasons

  Students negotiate pros/cons of ideas, approaches, and solutions and analyze options using "if-then" rationale.

• If/Then Statements Page
• Goal Setting and Applying If/Then Statements Assignment
• 1.2.6 Plans/organizes

  Students plan steps, procedures, and/or approaches for addressing tasks. This occurs naturally in most assignments, ranging from solving one problem to completing a long-term project.

• This benchmark is met through the activities for benchmarks 3.2.5, 3.4.