A Failure to Communicate
Students will use effective communication skills to work together to create a satisfactory and logical presentation on information technology facts and findings since clear communication is essential in the workplace, particulary in IT.
GED Content Areas
- Writing
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
Creating a Resume
Students will learn the requirements to writing a competitive resume, which will more readily get the student an interview with the employer.GED Content Areas
- Writing
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
Go, See, Do!
The purpose of this lesson is to provide authentic opportunities to promote a location in an audible and visual format.
GED Content Areas
- Writing
- Speaking and Listening
My Bedside Manners: Putting Thoughts into Written Word
The purpose of this lesson is to teach students to share through a written, technology platform different approaches to health care situations to encourage professional growth while, at the same time, demonstrating evidential use of workplace text or other scientific, informational text and proper writing conventions.
GED Content Areas
- Writing
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