There are 16 career clusters leading to various career pathways. Instructors can incorporate these clusters into curriculum design and instruction. Adult education services will include workforce preparation activities and training for specific occupations; this will allow students to achieve their educational and career goals. For a listing and description of these career clusters, please click on the link below.
Employability Skills Lesson 3
Now that students have an idea of what jobs are available to them with their current skill level, they can begin to research what each job entails. This lesson gives them the opportunity to use hands-on math to determine more detailed salary information and to see what skills they will need to get to the next level into a “dream” job.
GED Content Areas
Number and Ratios
Employability Skills Lesson 4
When job-seeking, students will need to understand terminology used, such as median salary, in order to determine whether or not the job will meet their financial needs. In addition to learning the skills necessary to calculate salary information, they will also learn more about their field(s) of interest.
GED Content Areas
Data, Probability, and Statistical Measurement
Being a Good Employee
The purpose of this lesson is to teach students how to analyze passages of workplace text so that they can decipher benefits information and company policies.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Writing
Building a Resume
Focus/Career is a tool used by the Kentucky Career Center to match employers with qualified potential employees. By completing the resume creation process using this technology, students will learn the importance of “selling themselves” by highlighting skills and strengths.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Language
Career Snapshots Closing Day 1
To introduce students to very basic research so that they can begin career exploration for themselves
GED Content Areas
- Writing
Career Snapshots Closing Project Day 2
To expose students to very basic public speaking
GED Content Areas
- Speaking and Listening
Communicating Across Cultures
SRNA Students will learn how culture and religion affect attitudes and practices towards health care in order to have appropriate interaction with residents.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Speaking and Listening
Compare/Contrast Careers
To introduce students to strategies for comparing/contrasting similar texts
GED Content Areas
- Reading
Complete and Partial Baths
The purpose of this lesson is for teach students how to properly bathe a long-term patient by means of a complete or partial bath. They will learn and practice the procedures of both types.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Writing
Construction & Trades: Career Exploration
Since the construction and trades sector is growing and jobs are becoming available, students should explore the types of jobs available in this career pathway.
GED Content Areas
- Writing
- Reading
Don’t Let Cost Be Your Goal Buster: Ways to Pay for Higher Education
Students will learn about various ways to pay for higher education, which may encourage them to pursue a certificate or degree that will help them with a career. Specifically, students will learn about the Work Ready Kentucky Scholarship and other grants, scholarships, and loans. Students will be encouraged not to charge tuition on credit cards and to avoid high interest loans if at all possible.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
Employability Skills Lesson 1
Focus/Career is a tool used by the Kentucky Career center to match employers with qualified potential employees. By completing the resume creation process using this technology, students will learn the importance of “selling themselves” by highlighting skills and strengths.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Speaking and Listening
Employability Skills Lesson 2
In the previous class, students began creating a profile on Focus/Career using the resume-building aspect of the tool. Today, they will view available jobs in their area that matches their skill level. Through examining job requirements and the characteristics of successful applicants, students will be able to evaluate data and create their own summary of it to better understand their chances at obtaining one of the jobs matched to their profiles.
GED Content Areas
- Language
End of Life Care
SRNAs deal very closely with death as part of the job. This lesson helps students learn about bodily changes during the dying process through the article and to think about death in a different way through the poem.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
GED Success Stories and Steps to Higher Education
Students will determine the key steps to beginning higher education courses. This lesson seeks to encourage students to earn their GEDs and pursue higher education degrees, certificates, or training.
GED Content Areas
- Writing
Gifted: Finding Your Multiple Intelligences
Students will be able to read biographies closely to determine which multiple intelligence(s) are emphasized in order to understand their own intelligences and choose related careers. This lesson is designed to encourage students that they are intelligent and that they have gifts that can contribute to society.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
Health Care Jobs
When job-seeking, students will need to understand terminology used, such as median salary, in order to determine whether or not the job will meet their financial needs. In addition to learning the skills necessary to calculate salary information, they will also learn more about their field(s) of interest.
GED Content Areas
- Language
Health Science Careers in Diagnostic Services: What Are the Careers and What Do The Careers Involve?
Students will explore the types of jobs available in the diagnostic services pathway of a health science career cluster in order to encourage students to pursue one of these careers.
GED Content Areas
- Writing
- Speaking and Listening
Health Science Careers in Therapeutic Services: What Are The Careers and What Do They Involve?
Why is this topic important to the learner?
Since the health care sector is growing and jobs are becoming available, students should explore the types of jobs available in the therapeutic services pathway of health science careers.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Writing
Healthcare Worker Importance of Following Directions
The purpose of this lesson is to teach students how to analyze articles to understand the importance of hand washing and demonstrate the process.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
Importance of Sleep
The purpose of this lesson is to introduce students to the important role that rest and sleep play in the elderly population and some ways they can help residents who may be having problems sleeping.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Writing
Intro to Help Wanted KY
To introduce students to in-demand jobs in Kentucky
GED Content Areas
- Reading
Introduction to the Study Guide
The purpose of this lesson is to introduce students to the needed skills and procedures to become a SRNA.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Writing
Job Sectors
To further explore information for in-demand job sectors in Kentucky
GED Content Areas
- Reading
KCTCS Work Ready Scholarship
Through understanding sequenced language, students will be able to follow steps to complete an application process, reflecting both college and career next steps.
GED Content Areas
- Writing
Lesson 1: Professionalism Assessments
To teach students the importance of being a dependable, motivated employee to contribute to their workplace and secure a good job to provide for their futures.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
Lesson 2: Resolving Conflicts
To teach students how conflict resolution and clear communication are key to their success in the workplace.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Speaking and Listening
Lesson 3: Organizational Communication
To help students realize the importance of being a contributing member of a team and why it is important to job retention.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Speaking and Listening
Listening and Speaking Skills: The Wisdom of a Third Grade Dropout
Students will practice active listening skills and participate in small group and whole class discussion of a speech and the transcript of that speech. These listening and speaking skills are necessary for success in most jobs.
GED Content Areas
- Speaking and Listening
Part 1 of Essay on a Goal Achiever
Students will find relevant articles about a person who achieved a great goal. Students will analyze the articles for credibility and usefulness and use those articles to answer questions about the person. The students will write an informative essay on the person in a subsequent lesson. This lesson is important in that it will hopefully inspire students to set and achieve their own goals. This lesson will help students build their writing skills.
GED Content Areas
- Writing
Part 2 of Essay on a Goal Achiever: Writing the First Draft
Students will write an informative essay with sufficient textual evidence.
GED Content Areas
- Writing
Protect What You Have!
To introduce students to important cybersecurity information (and the field of cybersecurity in general)
GED Content Areas
- Reading
Researching the Job Market to Investigate Take-Home Salaries
Now that students have an idea of what jobs are available to them with their current skill level, they can begin to research what each job entails. This lesson gives them the opportunity to use hands-on math to determine more detailed salary information and to see what skills they will need to get to the next level into a “dream” job.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Writing
Speaking and Listening
The purpose of this lesson is to teach students the importance of speaking to and listening to residents as a SRNA. They get the chance to practice their speaking/listening skills while enforcing their knowledge of mathematical measurements.
GED Content Areas
- Speaking and Listening
- Reading
Team Exercise
To teach students the importance of contributing as a team player so that they can get and hold a good job.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Speaking and Listening
Team Presentations
To help students realize the importance of being a contributing member of a team and why it is important to obtaining and maintaining a job.
GED Content Areas
- Speaking and Listening
Text Structure Know-How
To introduce students to strategies for comparing/contrasting similar texts
GED Content Areas
- Reading
The Vocabulary of Saving and Investing Money
Students will use context clues to determine the meanings of new words in articles about personal finance. Students will need to use this skill in future class, on exams, and in the workplace. Students will learn about the importance of saving and some basic ways to invest their money.
GED Content Areas
- Language
Understanding Employer’s Expectations
Open up class with a skit (http://www.learnnc.org/lp/multimedia/9245) that students will act in to display how employers and bosses may react to an employee following expectations, and not following expectations. Students playing the employees can read a script expressing displeasure in their employee not following the dress code, for example, and will illustrate to students that not following employer expectations can have consequences.
Every job has different expectations. How you interact with coworkers and dress are two prominent examples. Employers express these expectations in handbooks. It is the responsibility of the employee to read and understand these expectations, and prove that they are ready to work.
GED Content Areas
- Writing
- Reading
Vaccinations
The purpose of this lesson is to demonstrate the importance of vaccinations by allowing students to read articles on the subject and summarize their findings.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Writing
Welding Terminology, Joint and Weld Types, Diagrams and Symbols
This lesson is part of the development of a unit on Introductions to different Careers in the workplace. It is meant to create interest in a career in welding for those GED students who do not wish to pursue more academic based careers by showing they are already equipped (or could easily become equipped) to pursue a career in this field. This lesson also teaches strategies for finding meaning in job-specific vocabulary.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
What Did I Just Say?
The purpose of this lesson is to teach SRNA students how to communicate verbally and nonverbally with residents because in order for a SRNA to implement resident care they have to understand their wants, needs, and feelings.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Speaking and Listening
What's Human Service Anyway?
Using text structures is key to an increase in reading level.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
Your Employee Benefits
The purpose of this lesson is to introduce students to the importance of understanding their benefits as an employee.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Writing
Your Mission Statement
The purpose of this lesson is to teach students how to write/analyze a mission statement so that they have direction in goal-setting.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Writing