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.
Analyze Proportional Relationships (Scale Factors)
The purpose of this lesson is to teach students how to use and determine scale factors for models and maps. The students will realize the importance of scale factors and how they are used in daily life. The students will see how map scales are used in order for us to know how far it is to a destination as well as the importance of scale factors used in construction.
GED Content Areas
Number and Ratios
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
Percent and Pie Charts
This lesson is designed to enhance student understanding of the following mathematical skills:
Measurement and Spatial Reasoning: students will make frequent use of a protractor in the construction of appropriately-sized pie charts in the representation of data.
Numeracy: students will understand percent of a whole as a visual model. They will be able to compare a given percent to a benchmark percent value (25%, 33%, 50%, 66%, 75%) in order to have a sense of accuracy and intuitive meaning. Students will develop an ability to connect different representations of the same data, and be able to represent data in multiple forms to better understand percent/proportional reasoning.
Procedural Fluency: students will increase their procedural fluency, which is one of the components of rigor, by repeatedly using the standard algorithm for computing percent of a whole
Additionally, this lesson is designed to enhance student understanding of the following mathematical concepts/content areas:
Percent: students will be asked to make computations with percent as an input or output
Precise Representation of Data: students will construct accurate pie-charts that describe raw data
Proportional Reasoning: students will apply percent concepts toward their overall understanding and development of proportional reasoning
The mathematical skills and content in this lesson has significance in the workforce and in high stakes exams such as the GED® exam, COMPASS®, and KYOTE®.
Pre-requisite Knowledge: Ideally, students will already have some experience calculating percent; this should not be the first lesson in a unit on percent for students.
GED Content Areas
Number and Ratios
Using Formulas in Real Life (Including Geometry Formulas)
The purpose of this lesson is for students to be able to look for and use structure and also to proficiently work with algebraic algorithms and formulas in real world situations, so that they can solve problems.
GED Content Areas
Algebra and Functions
Using Proportions to Solve Direct and Inverse Variation
The lesson will use proportions to help solve applications involving direct and inverse variation. Also, students will continue to build their knowledge of different measurement abbreviations. These skills can be very important in technology and health fields. The lesson will expose students to scenarios that can really be applied in these fields.
GED Content Areas
Number and Ratios
Algebra and Functions
5S System of Lean Manufacturing
The purpose of this lesson is to inform students on what lean manufacturing is, the history of lean manufacturing, and the “5s” methodology that is utilized in today’s manufacturing processes to operate at peak efficiency.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
Communication in the Workplace
The purpose of this lesson is to familiarize students about the education, training, and core skills that are needed to succeed in the manufacturing work force and to reinforce the importance of effective communication.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
Extended Response
Skills like being able to analyze various types of media as well as comparing and contrasting are important in today’s workplace.
GED Content Areas
- Writing
Forklift Safety
Manufacturing safety should be a priority. According to the latest statistics from OSHA, 12 fatal injuries occur on a daily basis.
GED Content Areas
- Writing
Identifying Hazards
The purpose of this lesson is to teach students how to identify hazards in the workplace.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
Intro to OSHA
The purpose of this lesson is to teach students the importance of safety in the manufacturing workplace.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
Locating Information
Forms, charts, and graphs are used within all workplaces to gather and communicate information. In order to be a productive employee, the student must be able to summarize the information they read. They must have the ability to infer information from these types of communications.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
Make Decisions Based on Workplace Graphics
Why is this topic important to the learner?
Making decisions based on information learned from graphs is an important task in the workplace. Several times a day we have to make choices and decisions based on the information we find in graphs (bus schedules, menus, work orders, etc.) Knowing how to do this makes our lives easier.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
Safety in the Working Environment
The purpose of this lesson is to inform students on the potential hazards of the industrial and general workforce and to reinforce safe practices to present themselves as professional, safe employees.
GED Content Areas
- Speaking and Listening
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