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.
Analyzing Trends
Students will be able to record data on a chart and understand how to use probability using the chart createdManufacturing, and Transportation/Distribution/Logistics employee performance is often tracked. Employees are evaluated based on time taken to accomplish a task, number of mistakes, and ability to choose the correct product(s) for distribution. Through the analysis of trends, students can see correlation between their individual jobs and the “big picture” of their employer’s goals.
GED Content Areas
Data, Probability, and Statistical Measurement
Profit and Growth
Students will understand and apply scale, similar shapes, and proportional reasoning forming a bridge between scale drawings and real objects.
Students will use the skill learned to plan events by dividing the space to be used appropriately, and by knowing how many tables and chairs are to be used based on the number of individuals attending the planned event.
Scale drawing will assist students in preparing ahead designing the space to be used. Because of understanding scale drawing, students can know exactly how many tables and chairs can be placed in a given space.
Scale drawing is a visual representation of the space.
GED Content Areas
Geometry
What Does the Future Hold?
The purpose of this lesson is to enhance the understanding of graphs and data. Students will be able to use the knowledge gained in the professional workplace. This lesson will also prepare students in the following mathematical skills:
• Numeracy: students to be able to proficiently perform repeated calculations, be able to create tables/charts that visually summarizes the information as well as reasoning through word problems to determine appropriate computation needed.
• Procedural Fluency: students will increase their procedural fluency, which is one of the components of rigor, by repeatedly performing calculations that assist students to make appropriate decisions related to work problems, and transfer that information to charts/graphs as visual representation.
Instructor opens lesson by asking questions such as:
Sample 1: What is your favorite M&M flavor? What color of M&M you prefer? How many M&M of that color do you think are in a bag? Is there math involved in finding the information needed? If so, what kind of math?
Sample 2: If you were a manager at a restaurant and need to prepare employees schedules based on the visits, how would you create schedules? What information would you need to collect each month? How would you collect that information?
Prerequisite Knowledge: Students will already have some experience working with percent and fractions.
This lesson will allow students to obtain jobs or advancements in their current career.
GED Content Areas
Data, Probability, and Statistical Measurement
Data, Probability, and Statistical Measurement
What's Your Profit?
Students will fill in missing data in a table after finding the percent of increase or percent of decrease to calculate pricing items at the gift shop, calculating high traffic volume periods, and creating work schedules for their career in hospitality and tourism.
The purpose of this lesson is to enhance the understanding of percent and ratio use, to be able to proficiently perform repeated calculations to find the percent of increase or decrease for real-life and work related scenarios, to be able to create tables/charts that visually summarizes the information, as well as reasoning through word problems to determine appropriate computations needed.
Pre-requisite Knowledge: Number base 10 and fractions. Ideally, students will already have some experience working with ratios, and will have basic understanding on how to read graphs.
GED Content Areas
Number and Ratios
Go, See, Do!
The purpose of this lesson is to provide authentic opportunities to promote a location in an audible and visual format.
GED Content Areas
- Writing
- Speaking and Listening
Make Someone Happy
Students often go into a workplace without knowing the expectations. This lesson will check reading comprehension and will create an idea of a model employee for the hospitality field. Beginning with a broad overview of the Hospitality and Tourism career cluster, students are introduced to the terminology, careers, required skills, and technologies associated with each pathway in the Hospitality and Tourism career cluster.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
One Way or Another
Tourists seek directions to many venues. It is an important role of the concierge or other hospitality/tourism employee to be able to give directions in a way that the tourist can understand.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
Sticks and Stones
Positive communication is a valuable skill across all employment sectors.
GED Content Areas
- Reading