LIFE SKILLS SYLLABUS  

Week 1   Course Description/guidelines

                Intro Activities:  Why People Work/attitudes toward work

                Job Shadowing Information    Due dates:       1^st______________________

                                                                               

                                                                                         5th_____________________

 

                                                                                         6^th______________________

 

                 ASVAB test: _______________________first three periods

 

Week 2    Career Choices Activities 14-71

                 Fantasy vs. Reality:  Envisioning Your Future

                 Identifying Who You Are and Where You Will Be in 25 Years

 

Week 3    Chapter 1 Succeeding in the World of Work “You and the World of Work”

                 Portfolio Information    Due Dates:   1^st_____________________________

                                                                                

                                                                            5^th_____________________________

 

                                                                            6^th_____________________________

 

Week 4    Chapter 2 Succeeding in the World of Work “Getting to Know Yourself”

                 Activities 1-8 Aptitude tests 

 

Week 5    Chapter 3 Succeeding in the World of Work “Researching Careers”

                 Chapter 6 Succeeding in the World of Work “Finding and Applying for a Job”

 

Week 6     Chapter 5 Succeeding in the World of Work “Developing and Individual    

                  Career Plan”

                  How to Get a Job   pages 1-9

 

Week 7     Application Blank Vocabulary words

                  How to Get a Job  pages 33-42

                  Letter of Application due:___________________________

                  Application Blank due: _____________________________

 

Week 8     Resumes      Due date:  ______________________________

 

Week 9     Chapter 7 Succeeding in the World of Work “Interviewing”

                  Videos on interviewing skills

 

Week 10    Work on interview scripts/begin taping interviews

 

Week 11     Continue taping interviews

                   How to Get a Job pages 63-85

                   Video:  Careers without College

                  Communication Module 4 “Starting a New Job”

                  Chapter 8 Succeeding in the World of Work “Beginning a New Job”

                  Video:  How to Keep a Job

 

Week 12    Social Security System

                  Chapter 23 Succeeding in the of Work  “Taxes and Social Security” section 2

                  Social Security handouts/video

 

Week 13   Checking Accounts

                  Video: Money: Banks and Business

                  Video:  Checking Accts: A Guide to selection and use

                   Check Book Activity

 

Week 14    Work on Check Book Activity

 

Week 15    Sexual Harassment

                  Videos on topic

 

Week 16    Ethics in the Workplace

                  Chapter 9  Succeeding in the World of Work “Workplace Ethics”

                  Video set on ethics in the workplace

 

Week 17   Working Parents

                  Video:  Working Parents

                  Video:  The Basics of Day Care

 

Week 18    Credit/Insurance

                  NEFE program:  Buy Now, Pay Later

                  Next Generation (Insurance)

 

                  Savings and Investments

 

                  Taxes

 

                  Semester Exam -Final