Jobs for Arkansas' Graduates: Grades 11, 12

Career Development

Job Attainment

Job Survival

Basic Competencies

Leadership & Self-Development Competencies

Personal Skills

Define occupational interests, aptitudes, and abilities

Illustrate the relationship of interests, aptitudes, and abilities to appropriate occupations

Discuss how values change and affect job choices

Identify jobs that represent all career pathways

Relate interests, values, and skills to selected jobs

Identify conditions and specifications of various jobs

Identify the general rules when writing a resume

Identify the components of the job search process

Explain the purposes and components of a letter of application

Identify proper procedures in using a telephone

Discuss reasons and procedures in completing an application

Discuss reasons why employment tests are given

Discuss the purposes of job interviews

Identify what is meant by appropriate appearance

Identify qualities and characteristics that employers expect of employees

Identify problems of new employees

Identify ways to manage time

Identify the reasons for following directions

Identify ways to demonstrate effective human relations

Discuss appropriate techniques for leaving a job

Describe verbal communication

Describe written communication

Illustrate written communication

Illustrate verbal communication

Demonstrate mathematical calculations

Describe the strengths that a team possesses when all members are actively involved

Identify levels of team leadership

Demonstrate presentation techniques

Demonstrate the characteristics of a gracious winner and a gracious loser

Identify ways to demonstrate commitment to an organization

Identify the dimensions of human growth and development

Identify characteristics of a value system

Describe how decisions can be based on values and goals

Identify the process of decision making

Evaluate alternatives to consequences for actions and decisions

Identify the characteristics of a positive attitude

Identify the elements of a healthy self-concept for home, school, and work

Identify personal interests, aptitudes and skills

Identify careers that may be of interest

Provide information regarding individual aptitudes

Read with comprehension

Demonstrate ability to read a graph

Utilize career reference resources

Demonstrate writing skills by relating interests, aptitudes, and abilities to career choices

Demonstrate recall and retention

Use basic principles of algebra and arithmetic

Define values

Identify desired lifestyle, and relate to selected occupations

Discuss how people, institutions, and other external things affect values and behavior

Select a job description that aligns with various values

Give solutions to problems when conflicts in values occur

Link interests to a specific career pathway

Demonstrate recall, retention, inferences, and conclusions

Manipulate employment data to compare units of measure as they relate to time and wages

Interview people in various careers

Discuss individual career choices

Read for comprehension and recall

Place items in numerical order

Express career considerations

Gather information about jobs in which students are interested

Recognize commonly stated job qualifications

Gather information for an opportunity to shadow a worker in order to identify job competencies

Utilize several sources of information to investigate job competencies

Apply the information learned

Read with comprehension

Calculate and convert units of measure

Define resume, and identify its chief functions

Identify the standard resume format and its components

Identify errors on a resume, and state why they are errors

Write a resume using standard chronological format

Read for comprehension

Practice working with time

Identify sources to look for job leads

Read and understand the abbreviations in want ads

Read and interpret want ads

Read for comprehension

Practice multiplication and division

Explain the purpose of a letter of application

Identify the components in a letter of application

Compose a letter of application

Address an envelope

Read with comprehension and recall

Solve multiplication, division and weigh problems

Discuss reasons for good telephone skills when conducting a job search

Inquire about a job, and acquire an interview

Utilizing the telephone, follow up on an interview, and accept a job

Read for comprehension and recall

Use a diagram

Understand words commonly used on an application form

Identify errors on an application, and correct them

Identify the sections of an application form

Complete an application form

Read for comprehension and recall

Practice multiplication, division, and percentages

Identify types of employment tests

Complete various types of employment tests

Read for comprehension and recall

Demonstrate the ability to read a table and perform addition, subtraction, and multiplication

Discuss how to prepare for the interview

Discuss stages of the interview process

Identify common interviewing mistakes

Demonstrate proper body language for an interview

Answer questions frequently asked in an interview

Identify questions applicant should ask employer during the interview

Discuss ethical issues related to interviewing

Role-play an interview for a job

Identify components of a post-interview followup letter

Read for comprehension and recall

Place items in numerical order

State why appearance is important when looking for a job

Describe appropriate dress for a job interview

State why appropriate appearance and dress are important once you have the job

Describe the types of dress appropriate for different positions

Calculate percentages, and demonstrate proficiency in adding and subtracting monetary amounts

Name qualities that employers expect from their employees

Discuss what a person can expect from an employer

Name reasons workers lose their jobs

Demonstrate retention and recall

Arrive at a verifiable rule or set of rules to handle all addition situations with signed numbers

Identify problems that new employees might encounter on the job

Discuss solutions to the problems that new employees might encounter on the job

Read for comprehension and recall

Practice reading a ruler and adding and subtracting fractions

Identify strategies for time management

Practice effective time management strategies

Determine how to improve time management

Discuss ways to utilize time to accomplish goals

Read for comprehension and recall

Read a schedule, and discuss how to perform basic time calculations

Discuss why it is important to follow directions

Follow verbal directions

Give directions using a map

Demonstrate recall and retention

Devise a method to calculate distance

Identify factors important for getting along with others

Identify solutions to problems on the job

Demonstrate actions and behaviors of effective human relations

Read for comprehension and recall

Practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division

Identify how an employee should resign from a job

Demonstrate the appropriate technique for resigning orally from a job

Write a letter of resignation

Read with comprehension

Practice percentages

Name elements that complete the communication process

Diagram the communication cycle

Give reasons why listening is important on the job

Show understanding of verbal instructions

Read for comprehension and recall

Make inferences, and draw conclusions

Make generalizations

Summarize a reading passage

Identify cause-and-effect relationships in a passage

Discuss preparation and organization of materials to be used in written communication

Create a rough draft

Edit a rough draft

Write the final copy, and compare it to your rough draft

Compose a "compare-and-contrast" two-part writing

Determine the purpose of public speaking

Identify speech characteristics

Identify nonverbal qualities that affect a spoken message

Organize the message

Perform basic math problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and percentages

Calculate circumference and area

Calculate angles utilizing Pythagorean theorem

Convert different units of measure

Utilize charts and graphs

Solve algebraic equations

Demonstrate a sense of teamwork and the importance of effective communication skills

Provide students with an opportunity to share what they think being a member of a team means

Emphasize the importance of team membership skills in the world of work

Demonstrate group consensus principles

Demonstrate team membership

Demonstrate recall and retention, and apply main points and principles

Calculate addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, percentages, and decimals

Demonstrate leadership skills through team competition

Determine leadership styles

Identify a leadership role model

Explore leadership activities that could be conducted through our career and technical student associations

Identify careers that require leadership skills

Illustrate team leadership

Discover qualities needed for team membership and leadership

Review the basic math operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division to create a mathematical expression equal to 24

Develop a creative topic presentation title

Develop skills in giving an effective presentation

Develop a presentation outline

Develop a presentation media

Develop and present a personal introduction

Develop and present a topic introduction

Deliver an effective presentation

Demonstrate recall and retention

Collect, organize, and arrange information in a pictograph; create a survey, and administer it to the class; find the range, mode, median, and mean of a set of data; create a pie, bar, and line graph on a computer

Identify the feelings of being a winner and loser

Identify characteristics of winners

Demonstrate the steps in the win/win approach to conflict resolution

Read with comprehension

Communicate information using graphs and charts

State ways of displaying commitment

Formulate solutions on demonstrating commitment

Evaluate attendance and punctuality

Demonstrate commitment to a student association

Demonstrate recall and retention

Calculate ups and downs of the stock market

Define maturity

Identify Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

Read for comprehension and recall

Practice addition and multiplication

Define values

Identify sources of values

Identify basic, general, and personal values

Identify "work" values

Read for comprehension and recall

Retrieve and manipulate data from a chart

Define goals

Identify guidelines for setting goals

Read with comprehension, and determine inferences and generalizations

Determine and express statistical data from charts and graphs

Define decision and decision making

Identify the key steps in a decision-making process

Identify alternatives to utilizing a decision-making process

Read with comprehension and recall

Calculate cost per unit

Define responsibility and consequences

Develop a list of "tips" for assuming responsibilities

Read for comprehension and recall

Practice working with dollars and cents

Define attitude

List influences to a person's attitude

Identify ways a person can improve his/her attitude

Read with comprehension and to determine cause and effect

Calculate money using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and percentages

Define self-concept, self-confidence, and self-esteem

List techniques that build confidence

Read for comprehension and recall

Practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of metric numbers