Syllabus
Employability Education
Common Course Syllabus (2023-2024)
Wade Hampton High School | Karson Bryant | Room 209 | (864) 355-0174 | kmbryant@greenville.k12.sc.us
Course Description
Employability Education is a semester course for 9th -12th-grade students, designed to develop the knowledge and skills necessary to prepare for the dual role of the wage earner and family member. Knowledge of the factors involved in these roles is vital for preparing students to make informed and competent decisions regarding career and family life. This class meets every day for 90 minutes and has no prerequisites. This course focuses on the development of the transferable skills students need in job and life situation tasks. These skills include basic academic skills, thinking skills, personal qualities, use of resources, interpersonal skills, and using information.
Topics that will be included in this course:
Analyzing interest, aptitudes, and skills to make informed career goals.
Using job shadowing to research careers of interest and identify career preferences.
Demonstrating job seeking and job-keeping skills to gain immediate or future employment.
Identify entrepreneurial characteristics and skills.
Instructional Philosophy
The Employability Education I course is designed for students to explore interests, research careers, create resumes, practice interview skills, and conduct informational interviews and job shadows. This course is designed to introduce students to the fundamental attitudes, behaviors, and habits needed to obtain and maintain employment and make career advancements. Students will participate in school-based learning activities including work ethic development, job-seeking skills, decision-making skills, and self-management. Students will begin a career portfolio as part of the requirements for the South Carolina High School Credential. Formal career planning and development of knowledge regarding transition planning begins in this course and continues
throughout the strand of the employability education courses.
For further information on the South Carolina Employability Credential
South Carolina Employability Credential Standards and Requirements
Course Goals
At the conclusion of the course, students will be able to:
Formulate an awareness of self to include personal strengths, challenges, and other relevant characteristics.
Understand responsibilities to make appropriate decisions and choices that will affect education, post-secondary goals and adult life.
Demonstrate an awareness of appropriate communication skills, how to handle criticism, and how to develop appropriate personal relationship skills with both peers and adults. Students will learn to work as a team.
Create a personal student portfolio using technology that illustrates an understanding of rubrics. Begin the development of a resume.
Demonstrate the importance of making decisions that reflect wise choices, setting goals, determining the steps to achieve those goals and effective problem-solving.
Develop a plan of study that will help bridge secondary and post-secondary options upon the completion of the credential.
Understand the importance of critical thinking, problem-solving, time management, judgment and decision-making, personal appearance and care, social perceptiveness and leadership qualities.
Utilize aptitude and ability assessments to explore career options. Learn the transition components of the IEP to assist in planning for post-secondary choices.
Pacing Guide
This course is divided into eight units. Below is an outline of the unit sequence and the state standards for each unit. A cumulative assessment is included at the end of the semester to determine student mastery of the content, counting for 20% of the course grade.
Fountain Inn HS Grading Scale
A -- 90-100
B -- 80-89
C -- 70-79
D -- 60-69
Nine Week Grades
Minor Assessments: classwork, current events and quizzes -- 40%
Major Assessments: unit tests, projects and presentations -- 60%
Final Semester Grade
1st/3rd Nine Weeks -- 40%
2nd/4th Nine Weeks -- 40%
Final Course Exam -- 20%