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.
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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.
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Organizing a Work Correspondence
Students will use basic organization in writing to create a coherent workplace correspondence. Students must develop their writing and communication skills so that they will be able to communicate important information for their future jobs.
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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.
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Commas and Dashes in Workplace Writing
Students will learn to use correct punctuation in workplace writings to improve their employability skills.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.