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Success Skills meets the needs of a diverse group of high school
students by providing engaging, academically enriching, and
experiential learning sessions in work-readiness education and
career perspectives. Seven required, volunteer-led sessions.
The key learning objectives listed beside each session state the
skills and knowledge students will gain.
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Session One: It’s My Life
Students are introduced to the 16 Success
Skills. Working in groups, they evaluate sample resumes to
determine which job candidate they would hire.
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Key Learning Objectives Students will be able to:
- Identify personal work-readiness skills.
- Complete a personal skills assessment.
- Explore connections between their personal assessment
and their dreams, values, goals, and skills.
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Session Two: Listen Up
Working with partners, students
participate in a role-playing activity designed to develop
effective speaking and listening skills. Using verbal and
nonverbal cues, they learn how to build rapport with others. |
Key Learning Objectives Students will be able to:
- Explore strategies of effective formal and informal
workplace communication.
- Identify nonverbal communication uses and implications.
- Complete an informal self-assessment.
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Session Three: Stay Connected
By analyzing case studies and completing
a puzzle activity, students recognize the need for teamwork
and cooperation in the workplace. |
Key Learning Objectives Students will be able to:
- Identify the role of cooperation, integrity, and respect
in effective teamwork.
- Evaluate strategies for working effectively with others
to achieve a mutual goal.
- Complete an informal self-assessment.
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Session Four: Think Win/Win
Working in teams, students develop
solutions to potential workplace conflicts. They consider
win/win, win/lose, and lose/lose responses to conflict.
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Key Learning Objectives Students will be able to:
- Evaluate and apply effective speaking and listening
skills to resolve conflict.
- Identify and implement win/win solutions to conflict.
- Complete an informal self-assessment.
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Session Five: Work Smart
Working in groups, students participate in
a game show in which they practice their decision-making skills
by solving common workplace problems. |
Key Learning Objectives Students will be able to:
- Identify and apply strategies necessary for effective
problem-solving in real-life contexts.
- Complete an informal self-assessment.
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Session Six: The Marketing Spin
Working in groups, the students practice the Success Skill
Reflect and Evaluate. They identify the connection between
advertising a product and promoting themselves. |
Key Learning Objectives Students will be able to:
- Analyze and assess product advertising.
- Present selected products based on advertising
information.
- Assess and evaluate personal information and prepare a
resume.
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Session Seven: It’s My Future
During this final session, students participate in mock
employment interviews. They review the 16 Success Skills
presented throughout the course of the program. |
Key Learning Objectives Students will be able to:
- Identify effective interviewing skills.
- Evaluate peers and provide feedback.
- Reflect on the JA Success Skills experience.
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JA Success Skills enhances students’
learning of the following concepts and skills:
Concepts–
Building rapport, Careers , Career choices, Choices , Communication,
Conflict resolution, Cooperation, Data collection, Effective
teamwork, Evaluating information, Job interview, Marketing, Oral
communication, Problem-solving, Reflect and evaluate, Resolve
conflict, Synergy, Values
Skills– Active
listening, Analyzing information, Analyzing points of view,
Brainstorming, Categorizing data, Cooperation, Critical thinking,
Deductive reasoning, Interpreting information, Oral and written
communication, Problem-solving, Public speaking, Reflect and
evaluate, Self-assessment, Synthesizing and evaluating information,
Working in groups
JA Success Skills is a 7 session course
and is recommended for students in grades 9-12. Instructional
materials are packaged for 32 students and include detailed activity
plans for the volunteer, workbooks for students, and consumable
materials to be used in the classroom.
All JA programs are designed to support the
skills and competencies identified by the Partnership for 21st
Century Skills. These programs also augment school-based,
work-based, and connecting activities for communities with
school-to-work initiatives.
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