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
A Drug-free Workplace
The purpose of this lesson is to teach students the importance of a sober work environment and the types of policies in place for drug-free workplaces.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
Active Listening & Lineman Interviews
Adult education students need to see testimonials from other adult education students who have completed the necessary educational requirements in order to obtain their desired jobs. These testimonials motivate and inspire students to achieve their own educational and career related goals. This lesson encourages students to consider the trade job of power lineman. This lesson also develops the soft skill of active listening, which should be helpful during a job interview and during on-the-job interaction with others.
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
Author's Point of View
This lesson will help students understand the importance of becoming smart and critical readers so that they will not be “Facebook Fools” and fall for everything they read. Analyzing the credibility of a text begins with identifying the claims and evidence an author uses, as well as the skill of determining whether an author has a biased point of view.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
Back It Up- Recognizing How Authors Support Their Argument
The ability to recognize the effects of point of view and to locate evidence in written materials will help students to form decisions based upon facts and careful inferences rather than unsubstantiated opinions. Reading objectively will ultimately affect the strength of their own speaking and writing abilities.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
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
Character Point of View
The purpose of this lesson is to show students how we can learn about a character and gain more from a story by understanding characters’ points of view. By reading fictional texts and stepping into a character’s shoes, students learn how to process and see others’ perspectives. Viewing a fictional world through a character’s story helps students develop empathy for other people, which is a crucial skill not only for life and our relationships, but also for being a team player within the workplace.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
Close Reading Strategies - Industrialization and Child Labor
This lesson encourages students to use close reading skills to understand the central meaning of the text and to infer details to answer questions about the text. The topic of this lesson builds background knowledge on the enduring social studies issue of individual rights vs. the good of the community. The skills they will use for this and this content knowledge is necessary for the GED, and will give them experience reading and analyzing primary sources.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
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 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
Comparing Arguments Between Texts: To Build or Not to Build?
Today’s lesson will help students evaluate the support for a given argument. Students will also use the skill of reading and comparing two sources to determine which has the strongest argument and the most support--a skill that they will later use in numerous real-life situations. It also emphasizes the necessity of removing personal bias in decision-making.These skills will help them be successful on the GED RLA extended response portion of the test.
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
Consider the Source-Exploring Effects of Point of View, Worldview, and Life Experiences
To develop an understanding of the effect of point of view and point of reference on meaning.
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
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
Discussing Views on Surface Mining
The purpose of this lesson is to show students how to identify the similarities and differences between two texts that have claims about a similar topic. Comparing and contrasting claims helps students become critical readers and savvy consumers. This lesson also serves to increase students’ knowledge about the pros and cons of surface mining.
GED Content Areas
- 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
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
Employee Performance and Etiquette
Students will learn the various ways they can interact professionally in the workplace and identify an area that needs improvement.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Writing
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
Expert Testimony-- Research and Compilation of Data to Support a Claim
To research, plan, and write a rough draft of a paper on a given topic as a means to compare/contrast sources and information
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Writing
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
Following Multi-Step Procedures for Trade Jobs
Students must learn to read instructions closely and follow them in order to be success at their future jobs. Employees of the East Kentucky Power Cooperative ranked this RLA skill as the most important for success in power/energy jobs.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
GED Extended Response Lesson 1: Analyzing the Evidence
This topic is important because learning this skill—how to analyze the evidence in a text—is a vital skill for the GED extended response.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
GED Extended Response Lesson 2: Writing the Introduction
Students will learn how to craft an introduction for an RLA extended response for the GED exam. This skill is important because the RLA ER is a significant portion of the overall exam score.
GED Content Areas
- Writing
- Reading
GED Extended Response Lesson 3: Writing the Body & Conclusion
Students will learn to organize their extended responses with topic sentences, support their claims with evidence from the text, and add their own commentary and analysis in order to be successful on the writing portion of the GED exam.
GED Content Areas
- Writing
- Reading
Gender Pay Gap
- Social awareness
- Relevant topic that affects families in general
GED Content Areas
- Reading
Gettin' Real With Gettysburg
The purpose of this text is to help students understand the meaning of a text, taking into account the author’s point of view, the purpose of the text, and the audience the text is geared towards. This is essential to being able to increase reading comprehension skills for real life and workplace such as insurance paperwork, legal documentation, owner’s manuals, and policy books.
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
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 Science Careers in Diagnostic Services: Analyzing the Evidence and Writing an Extended Response
Employees in the health care pathways must demonstrate knowledge of health and wellness issues such as smoking and cancer screenings.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
Health Science Careers in Diagnostic Services: Diagnostic Questioning OLD CARTS AND SOAP Notes
Employees in the health care pathways must demonstrate effective communication and questioning skills related to medical diagnoses.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Writing
Health Science Careers in Diagnostic Services: Differentiating Between Drug Use, Misuse, and Abuse
To become successful health care workers, students must develop their diagnostic skills and ability to analyze workplace documents such as prescription labels and pill charts.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
Health Science Careers in Diagnostic Services: Observing for Detecting and Diagnosing "What are Signs and Symptoms and Why Do They Matter?"
This topic helps students understand the difference between signs and symptoms so that they will be able to record information from patient interviews for proper medical diagnoses.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
Health Science Careers in Diagnostic Services: People Skills in the Healthcare Setting
Employees in the health care pathways must demonstrate effective communication and people skills.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Speaking and Listening
Health Science Careers in Diagnostic Services: Vocabulary for Interpreting Charts and Print Outs
Students must develop the diagnostic skill of reading healthcare print outs and charts to work in health care fields.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Language
Health Science Careers in Therapeutic Services: The Ability to Work as a Team (Introduction to Teams Part 1)
Why is this topic important to the learner?
To become successful health care workers, students must understand the importance of working as a team in therapeutic healthcare services.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Writing
Health Science Careers in Therapeutic Services: The Desire to Help Patients Heal
It is important for students to understand the importance of the therapeutic skill of developing the desire to help people heal as they consider careers in health care.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
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
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
I Approve this Message
We think about the credibility, or trustworthiness, of products and media every day, whether we know it or not. We do this when we watch commercials on television, wondering if promises made by miracle products are "too good to be true".
In the workplace, you will be asked to evaluate information in different ways. If you are buying products for a company, will you buy from a company who has a pretty sales book, but the products look nothing like what you ordered? If you are taking checks or money for a product you sell, will you accept money from someone who has a history of having bounced checks, or from someone you know will be reliable? If you are asked to set up a training for employees, will you find a trainer who has had no previous experience, or someone who is trustworthy and has references to back them up?
GED Content Areas
- Reading
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
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
Is it Poetic Justice—Interpreting Literature
To expose students to a wider variety of reading materials in order to improve close reading and inference skills.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Writing
Is that Gun Loaded? Effects of Structure and Word Choices on Meaning
To analyze a text structure and specific word choices (based on positive, negative, or neutral connotation) and how both can impact meaning.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Speaking and Listening
Just the Facts, Ma’am—Explicit Meanings of Texts
To improve literal analyses of texts across media, including identifying facts that support the main idea. Objective, careful reading and listening will ultimately improve their own speaking and writing skills.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Writing
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
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 a Salt Map
The purpose of this lesson is to build skills in wayfinding - finding our way from one place to another, such as, traveling the subway in New York City during a vacation. This lesson will enable students to learn how to research, evaluate and visually analyze needed data to develop a coherent understanding of maps, to develop spatial reasoning skills and an understanding of map symbols and conventions.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Writing
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
Making Inferences in Articles about Trade Jobs
Students will need to use the skill of making inferences from texts that they read in order to be successful in reading workplace texts for their future careers and also on the GED and any tests that include reading comprehension.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
Narrator Point of View
The purpose of this lesson is to make connections to students’ prior knowledge about points of view and relate it to texts that we read for enjoyment. Students will learn and understand the role of the narrator in fiction and how the narrator’s point of view affects how a story is told. Students will also make real world connections to how we use point of view everyday.
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
Power/Energy Vocabulary in Context
- Students are learning about various careers in the construction and trades pathway so that they may have a broader selection of future careers.
- Students will determine the meaning of unfamiliar words in workplace specific texts.
GED Content Areas
- Language
- Reading
Re-ordering the Sequence of Events with Transportation Texts: Sequencing to Summarizing
Students will learn to determine the theme of a text and then re-order events presented in non-chronological order into chronological order. Re-ordering the sequence of events was identified as a key foundational concept for success on the GED.
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
Sticks and Stones
Positive communication is a valuable skill across all employment sectors.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
Summarizing Workplace Texts: The Power Grid
Students will learn to select key details from a longer text and then summarize workplace texts in order to retain key information.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
Survey of Support Services and Informatics
Why is this topic important to the learner?
Students should explore all health care pathways before determining a career path. This lesson exposes them to careers in support services and health informatics.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
TDL Extended Response Part 1: Analyzing the Evidence in the Texts
Students will analyze the evidence given to support an author’s claims in order to be successful on the GED extended response.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
TDL Extended Response Part 2: Transitions are Like Road Signs
Students will determine the meaning of different transitional words or phrases in order to incorporate them correctly in their writing on the GED extended response. The use of transitions has been identified by the GED as a high impact indicator—a skill that students could improve to boost their scores on the GED.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Language
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 Work and Problem Solving
Soft skills are personal attributes that are separate from professional qualifications and work experience. They refer to how you interact, lead and communicate with other people, and they are an essential foundation for any successful career.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
The Chain of Command of Major TDL Companies
Students will learn about organizational structure in some major TDL businesses. One of the employability standards is to utilize and support workplace organizational structures. This lesson seeks to give students a basic knowledge of chain of command and how to follow company protocol. The students will read short scenarios for TDL businesses and analyze the relationships among workers and departments.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
The Legos of Language
At the end of this lesson, students will be able to:
· read texts to determine text structure,
· develop a research question and
· research to find answers.
GED Content Areas
- Writing
- Reading
The Main Idea: Boston Tea Party
The purpose of teaching the identification of the main idea is to see if students can discriminate the important information from the less important details in the text. It is important to have the ability to identify essentials ideas and information.
Another purpose of this lesson is for students to understand the correlation between a historical event and the timeline.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
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
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
Uranium-Friend or Foe, Comparative Analysis in Science
Students will use critical reading skills to inform choice and support evidence-based writing.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Writing
Using Fables to Teach Character and Cultural Traditions through Speaking, Listening and Writing
Through the use of a fable, The QuiltMakers Gift, students will understand that the giving of their time, talent and treasure will improve the quality of life in their communities.
GED Content Areas
- Writing
- 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
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 Footprint Will You Leave? Synthesizing and Presenting Information Graphically
As charts and graphs are used across most disciplines, graphic understanding enables the student to assess large amounts of data in order to recognize trends, compare parts of a whole, or compare two or more sets of information. For example, comparisons of weather data over time are usually represented in graphic form.
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
Word Choice in Texts for Energy Jobs
Students will explain how an author’ word choice reveals his/her purpose. This skill is important for the GED Extended Response. Students must be able to determine the author’s purpose and analyze his/her word choice in order to evaluate different texts. This will help students consider word choice and audience in their own writings.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
You Are an Internet Explorer
The ability to read and assess job descriptions is essential in pursuing a career pathway. Explicitly communicate to students that knowledge of a job/career informs the choices that will impact their futures.
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