Tech Management

Background

Every employability skill that is given will have a brief definition of the skill along with a rubric that is meant to help determine the level of proficiency in which the student will have pertaining to the skill. Each skill has been measured on 4 underlining pillars that encompass a full understanding and development of the skill. Each pillar will be given a determined understanding from Basic, Building, There, Beyond. Each level will demonstrate examples of what it means to have a basic understanding, building their understanding, full understanding, or an above and beyond understanding of the skill.

Focus

During your time with this skill we encourage you to review what you are already doing in your lessons that might pertain to these levels of proficiency. If you are engaging in an activity that pertains to these, you may simply want to reference the rubric as a starting point to determine student's proficiency levels. I want to reiterate again that the skills outlined within this progression come from the US Governments O*NET Program. Your district or school has probably been working with students on very similar skills that may be names or described slightly differently.

This progression and rubric is meant to support and not replace what you are already doing within your district or school. Use this information to verify what you are already doing and to probe where there are areas that might need to be reworked or added to.

Conclusion

What I hope you take away from this website is not just new information, but motivation. The need for employability skills have never been so high and the value that is behind it. For many people today, a career for life is no longer an option. Most people will hold jobs with a variety of employers and move across different employment sectors through their working life. We therefore all need to be flexible in our working patterns and be prepared to change jobs and/or sectors if we believe there are better opportunities elsewhere.

For this, we need to understand that we all have a set of transferable skills or employability skills. These are skills that are not specific to one particular career path but are useful across all employment sectors.