Benchmarks: How Interviews Drive the Hiring Process
Students need to understand and be prepared for the interview process for job placement.
GED Content Areas
- Writing
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
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
Gettin' Jiggy Wit' It
The purpose of the lesson is to help students to more readily understand the construction of an essay in an IT context by conducting a research project on coding languages. If students are able to successfully conduct research, understand the text, and summarize it, then the student will more readily understand the basic requirements an entery-level position within the workforce as well.
GED Content Areas
- Writing
Goal Boosters vs. Goal Busters
To teach students the importance of identifying hindrances to goal achievement
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Writing
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
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
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
KCTCS Work Ready Scholarship
Through understanding sequenced language, students will be able to follow steps to complete an application process, reflecting both college and career next steps.
GED Content Areas
- Writing
Note-taking Mini-lesson
To teach students how to take notes while listening to a presentation/lecture.
GED Content Areas
- Writing
Opinion: 911 Attacks and the Patriot Act
The purpose of this lesson is to assess students’ ability to synthesize information and present an opinion with valid reasoning and support so that students develop clear thinking patterns and expression of ideas.
GED Content Areas
- Writing
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
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
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
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
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