Career Clusters

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.

Career Cluster Pathways

Lessons
Career Clusters
Career Exploration
Understanding Employer’s Expectations

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Lesson Title	Understanding Employer’s Expectations
Unit Title
NRS Level	Level 4; Level 5;
Length of Lesson	120 minutes

Lesson Purpose

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.

Lesson Objectives

At the end of this lesson, students will be able to: research, write, and communicate employer expectations with others.

Student Target

I can conduct research and write a paragraph summary of a chosen employer's expectations.

CCR Standards

Writing

Writing Anchor 6
Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others.
Writing Anchor 7
Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects based on focused questions, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.

Reading

Reading Anchor 1
Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text. (Apply this standard to texts of appropriate complexity as outlined by Standard 10.)

Lead CCR Level Specific Standards

Writing Anchor 6: Level B

W.3.6
With guidance and support, use technology to produce and publish writing (using keyboarding skills) as well as to interact and collaborate with others.

Writing Anchor 7: Level B

W.3.7
Conduct short research projects that build knowledge about a topic.

Reading Anchor 1: Level B

RI/RL.2.1
Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.

Supporting CCR Level Specific Standards

KYAE Employability Standards

E.2
E.2 Utilize workplace tools and technologies to communicate effectively (e.g., memos/e-mails, basic computer programs, phone systems).
E.6
E.6 Identify and effectively use skills and materials needed for a particular task.