Learning Employability Skills

Academic

• Articulate feelings of competence and confidence as a learner (apply cognitive-behavioral approaches)
• Accept mistakes as essential to the learning process
• Identify attitudes and behaviors which lead to successful learning
• Demonstrate how effort and persistence positively affect learning
• Apply time management and task management skills
• Use communication skills to know when and how to ask for help when needed
• Take responsibility for their actions
• Demonstrate the ability to work independently, as well as the ability to work cooperatively with other students
• Demonstrate dependability, productivity, and initiative
• Demonstrate the motivation to achieve individual potential
• Learn and apply critical thinking skills
• Share knowledge
• Establish challenging academic goals in elementary, middle/junior high, and high school
• Develop and implement an annual plan of study to maximize academic ability and achievement
• Use problem-solving and decision-making skills to assess progress toward educational goals

Career

• Learn how to make decisions
• Learn how to set goals Understand the importance of planning
• Learn how to use conflict management skills with peers and adults
• Learn to work cooperatively with others as a team member
• All of the competencies listed under "Develop Employment Readiness" in the ASCA National Standards
• All of the competencies listed in our cluster "Learning and Using Effective Decision-Making Skills" (described earlier)

Personal/Social

• Demonstrate cooperative behavior in groups
• Recognize that everyone has rights and responsibilities
• Recognize , accept, and appreciate ethnic and cultural diversity
• Recognize and respect differences in various family configurations
• Use effective communication skills
• Know that communication involves speaking, listening, and nonverbal behavior
• Learn how to make and keep friends
• Demonstrate a respect and appreciation for individual and cultural differences