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
Analyzing the Effects of Reducing, Reusing, and Recycling—Can You Make a Difference?
Students will gather information from Internet articles, their own lives, and their classroom; analyze their findings; create a plan of action for recycling; and determine the measurable impact of their plan on landfills (pounds/year).
GED Content Areas
- Reading
Believe It or Not—Checking the Facts
Students will apply critical reading and source checking skills to determine the validity of a source.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Speaking and Listening
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
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
Compare and Contrast with the Battle of Gettysburg
The purpose of this lesson is to compare and contrast two view points of a text so that students understand that view point may affect information portrayed in writing.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Writing
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
Creativity Through Systems Thinking
To teach students about systems thinking so that they can give examples of interconnectedness
among factors leading to an event.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
Dateline Chappaquiddick—Analyzing One of the Top 100 Speeches of the 20th Century
Students will recognize examples of “loaded” language and be able to relate its effects upon the outcome of a specific historical event.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
Determine the Main Idea
The purpose of this lesson is to enable students to determine the main idea of a passage or selection of text from both informational and literary sources and identify topic sentences and supporting details within the same passage/selection so that they are able to read and comprehend main ideas and details in documents (i.e. newspaper articles, job or loan contracts/agreements, job descriptions, etc.) encountered in everyday, real-life situations.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Speaking and Listening
Digital Fluency and Final Test
In order for students to be successful in online portals and in the workplace, they must possess proficient digital literacy skills. The purpose of this lesson is to teach how to find legitimate information online.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
Educate, Respect, and Protect Yourself
In order for students to be successful in online portals and in the workplace, they must possess proficient digital literacy skills. The purpose of this lesson is to teach the importance of utilizing technology responsibly.
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
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
First Things First
Students will learn 2 types of text structure; chronological order and problem/solution with a focus on their importance in the workplace, i.e., taking and following directions, problem solving when things do not work the way they are suppose to.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
First-Person View, the Holocaust, and Japanese Internment Camps
The purpose of this lesson is to teach students the necessary strategies to compare two topics and form an opinion supported by facts so that they can clearly express their ideas.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Writing
Getting Your Bearings
Understanding TDL vocabulary and accurately analyzing information while responding appropriately with others is important for students in today’s workplace
GED Content Areas
- Reading
Goal Boosters vs. Goal Busters
To teach students the importance of identifying hindrances to goal achievement
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
How the Industrial Revolution Leads to the Roaring Twenties
The purpose of this lesson is to enable students to explain the impact of the Industrial Revolution/Roaring Twenties on the US economy and society.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Writing
Identifying Hazards
The purpose of this lesson is to teach students how to identify hazards in the workplace.
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
Intro to OSHA
The purpose of this lesson is to teach students the importance of safety in the manufacturing workplace.
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
Know Before You Throw: Recycling Right
Understanding the importance of how to analyze information presented visually may help students when they encounter workplace instructions.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
Landmarks- The Role of Job Descriptions
The purpose of this lesson is to provide authentic job search experiences for the student, to offer them opportunities to interact with staffing agencies, and to self-analyze their own strengths and areas of improvement.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
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
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
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
Netiquette
In order for students to be successful in online portals and in the workplace, they must possess proficient digital literacy skills. The purpose of this lesson is to teach the Netiquette necessary for professional interactions online.
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
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
SMART Goal-Setting
Goal-setting is a required element of KYAE program intake and orientation but is also critical to college- and career-readiness and success.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Writing
Social Studies and Systems
To learn how to utilize various sources of information (text, charts, maps, etc.) to gather information and apply systems thinking to solve a problem
GED Content Areas
- Reading
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
The Words We Live By
To teach students strategies for analyzing and writing a mission statement so that they can better understand purpose, audience, and direction in practical settings and set a mission statement for themselves.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Writing
Understanding Systems
To teach students how to analyze a text to determine how to solve a problem systematically and then apply the knowledge gained to solve a new problem
GED Content Areas
- Reading
Using Job Skills to Choose a Career
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
- Reading
- Writing
Using the Internet as Your Career Compass
Students need to learn to make informed choices regarding career development, using Internet resources.
GED Content Areas
- 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
We Did It! So Can You!
Preparing students for success early on by exposing them to others’ success can help to build confidence and motivation.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
What Dream Picked You?
To teach students the importance of setting goals and finding their gifts
GED Content Areas
- Reading
What's Human Service Anyway?
Using text structures is key to an increase in reading level.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
What’s it All about? Logical Inferences and Citing Evidence
Students will identify and use evidence gleaned from research to inform decision making, learn to work with others to reach a consensus, and present the group’s opinion in a brief paper, tasks essential for personal (life) and professional (career) growth.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Writing
Workplace Systems
To learn how to analyze texts to determine how and why a practical workplace system is put in to place and apply this knowledge to the development of an incentive program
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Writing
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