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Resources to Build Learners’ Transferable Skills

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The resources listed on this webpage can be used in the following ways:

  • Incorporate them into a lesson plan.
  • Incorporate them into your learning management system as a pre-lesson or post-lesson activity.
  • Assign a task as homework or an extension activity.
  • Have a student coordinator or classroom aide complete some of the activities with a small group of learners.

1. Critical Thinking

Thinks clearly and rationally with an open mind to arrive at decisions or conclusions by examining evidence, analyzing relationships, and drawing conclusions from a variety of data.

2. Self-Management

Takes responsibility for one’s own emotions, thoughts, and values and recognizes their impact on one’s own and others’ behavior in different situations.

  • Build Your Professional Brand (Google Applied Digital Skills) – Complete an activity that focuses on highlighting the qualities, skills, and talents that describe you as a professional by building a brand profile and mission statement.
  • Self-Management 2.5: Demonstrates Professionalism (Word Worksheet) – Read about the skill and then complete activities to practice and apply the skill.

3. Utilizing Resources

Identifies and measures effective resources and makes the most of available resources to achieve desired objectives.

4. Using Information

Uses observations, experiential information, and data to communicate and support the decision-making process.

  • Career videos (CareerOneStop) – Watch videos on careers in which you have an interest and then explore the training and education requirements for each career you might be interested in pursuing.
  • Uses Information 4.1: Locates Information (Word Worksheet) – Read about the skill and then complete activities to practice and apply the skill.
  • Skill and ability videos (CareerOneStop) – Watch videos to learn about the skills and abilities employers are looking for in job candidates and make a list of your strongest skills.
  • Find Career Ideas (CareerOneStop) – Complete the Find Career Ideas worksheet and then discuss career opportunities in your local area with your student support coordinator or teacher.
  • Uses Information 4.3: Analyzes Information (Word Worksheet) – Read about the skill and then complete activities to practice and apply the skill.

5. Working with Others

Interacts, cooperates, collaborates, and manages conflicts with other people within a team or organization to complete tasks and achieve shared goals.

  • 5 Evidence-based Strategies for Positive Connections (University of Michigan) – Read an article about strategies for positive connections. Take a few minutes to think about your classmates and/or co-workers and write down some of the unique qualities and abilities that you admire about others.
  • Career profiles (CareerOneStop) – Read a few occupation profiles for jobs in which you are interested and then research if employers in your local area are hiring for those occupations you are interested.

6. Understanding Systems

Navigates within the organizational structures that are part of the 21st-century communities, workplaces, and schools and knows how these components interact and interconnect to influence one another as a whole.

  • Forms of Government (YouTube) – Watch a video to learn about government systems and identify how these systems have or might affect your life.  
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7. Transition Skills

Navigates change in personal and professional environments while remaining flexible and adaptable.

  • Work values (CareerOneStop) – Complete a self-assessment and learn about how your work values match up with occupations.

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