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
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
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
Climax on the Rainy River: Character, Setting, and Plot Devices
The purpose of this lesson is to enable students to identify and analyze plot elements, character, and setting of a complex fiction text utilizing the appropriate tools. Additionally, this lesson will prepare students for the GED, as well as prepare students to use appropriate tools to analyze information in real-world settings, such as a college classroom or a workplace environment.
Explicitly stated:
Understanding how to identify and analyze plot elements, character, and setting will prepare you to pass the GED test, and it will help you develop important workplace skills by enabling you to use appropriate tools to accurately analyze complex information.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Speaking and Listening
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
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
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
Gender Pay Gap
- Social awareness
- Relevant topic that affects families in general
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
Weight and Weightlessness: Themes of The Things They Carried
The purpose of this lesson is to enable students to determine themes of literary texts, analyze their emergence and development through specific details, and communicate a written analysis of the theme using clear reasoning supported with relevant evidence. Additionally, analysis and communication of complex ideas will prepare students to complete the GED, as well as prepare students to analyze complex ideas in real-world settings, such as, college classrooms and workplace environments.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Writing
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
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