Workforce Essentials

CENTRALHIGH SCHOOL

COURSE SYLLABUS

PROGRAM NAME: Business Education

PROGRAM GOALS: To recognize, inspire, and promote excellence in commerce and information technology so that students are successfully served.

TEXTS: Working: Career Success for the 21st Century. 4thEdition. Bailey. South-Western Publishing.

FEE/INSURANCE: No course fee required; $10.00 FBLA membership fee optional

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Workforce Essentials is designed to prepare advanced students for occupations in their chosen career area. It provides the opportunity to enhance skills, attitudes, and habits consistent with their career objective. Emphasis is placed on employment regulations, employer expectations, safety, teamwork, self-management, and employment documentation. Students develop a career plan, career portfolio, and enhance their opportunities for meaningful employment that will result in placement in the local business community. Prior to entering this course, students must have completed two courses in their chosen career field. Prerequisite: Two courses in Business Education or Healthcare or Education or Trade/Industry.

COURSE GOALS

Upon completion of this course, the students will:

  1. Discuss the process for researching and selecting career opportunities.
  2. Compare the relationship between educational achievement and career planning.
  3. Demonstrate the ability to locate, evaluate, and interpret career information.
  4. Apply problem solving skills to make career decisions.
  5. Apply skills to seek, obtain, maintain, and change jobs.
  6. Discuss the importance of effective communication skills in the workplace.
  7. Demonstrate mathematical computation skills in the workplace.
  8. Discuss ethical behavior in the workplace.
  9. Describing legal issues affecting business including affirmative action, sexual harassment, and regulatory agencies.
  10. Explain leadership skills and practices
  11. Apply leadership skills through participation in career technical student organization activities.
  12. Interpret a company’s vision and mission statements, goals, and objectives with regard to a specific career objective or pathway.
  13. Identify types of behaviors that promote effective teamwork.
  14. Explain economic principles and concepts fundamental to entrepreneurship.
  15. Differentiate among various types of employment documents and records.
  16. Formulate a strategic implementation plan specific to workplace safety.
  17. Analyze worker safety laws for their effect on employees and employers.
  18. Build a career portfolio including examples of work, applications, and employment documents.
  19. Utilize correct grammar, punctuation, and number styles in written communication.

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

  • How might researching job opportunities change in the future?
  • How can dress and grooming affect employability?
  • What is the purpose of federal/state withholdings?
  • What does it matter that employees practice positive ethics in the workplace?
  • What are possible consequences of unethical behavior in the workplace?
  • What leadership skills learned in Workforce Essentials will help you in your short-term and long-term plans?
  • How would you justify the use of a specific technological tool as opposed to any other tool to complete a certain task?
  • What factors should be considered when determining which technological tool to use?
  • How will you prioritize these factors to fit multiple equipment decisions?
  • What evidence would you use in determining company beliefs and norms?
  • How do you determine whether a company’s vision and mission statement are reflected through their products and services?
  • What is the most important employee ability to consider when hiring new employees?
  • What is the best economic system?
  • Which type of payment policy is the best?
  • As an employee, what areas of your own workplace safety are you responsible for?

ASSESSMENT PROCEDURE

Students will be graded on classwork, homework, simulations, participation, tests, and projects. Grading percentages are as follows:

Tests/Exams60%

Homework/Classwork/Projects/Participation40%

INSTRUCTIONAL PHILOSOPHY

This course will be taught using lecture, discussion, projects, presentations, and simulations.

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES/ADVANCED PLACEMENT

Students will be able to seek employment in business/marketing/trades areas as clerks, data entry specialists, receptionists, bank tellers, administrative assistants, loan processors, medical office clerks, accounting clerks, legal secretaries, welders/fabricators, childcare assistants, cosmetology technicians, construction helpers, masonry helpers, automotive technicians, and drafting clerks.

COURSE OUTLINE

Week 1 /

Overview of forms, rules, software, text, policies, etc.

Week 2 / Chapter 1-Learning about Work
Week 3 /

Chapter 2-The Job Ahead

Week 4 /

Chapter 3-Looking for a job

Week 5 /

Chapter 4-Applying for a job

Week 6 /

Chapter 4-Applying for a job (cont.)

Week 7 /

Chapter 5-Interviewing for a job

Week 8 /

Chapter 5-Interviewing for a job

Week 9 /

Chapter 6-Beginning a new job

Week 10 /

Chapter 7-Expectations of Employers

Week 11 /

Chapter 8-Worker rights and protections

Week 12 /

Chapter 9-Human Relations at work

Week 13 / Chapter 10-Earnings and job advancement
Week 14 / Chapter 11-Appearance on the job
Chapter 12-Career Decision Making
Week 15 / Chapter 12-Career Decision Making
Chapter 13-Information about yourself
Week 16 /

Chapter 13-Information about yourself

Chapter 14-Career Information
Week 17 / Chapter 15-Communication
Week 18 / Review and Mid-Term Exam
Week 19 / Chapter 16-Math and Measurement Skills
Week 20 / Chapter 17-Safety skills at work
Week 21 / Chapter 18-Leadership Skills
Week 22 / Chapter 19-Computer and Technology Skills
Week 23 / Chapter 20-Entrepreneural Skills
Week 24 / Chapter 21-Our Economic World
Week 25 / Chapter 22-The consumer in the marketplace
Week 26 / Chapter 23-Banking and Credit
Week 27 / Chapter 23-Banking and Credit
Week 28 / Chapter 24-Budgeting, Saving and Investing money
Week 29 / Chapter 25-Insuring against Loss
Week 30 / Chapter 26-Taxes and Taxation
Week 31 / Chapter 27-Social Security and IRAs
Week 32 / Chapter 28-The legal System
Week 33 / Chapter 29-Where to live
Week 34 / Chapter 30-Healthful Living
Chapter 31-Responsible Citizenship
Week 35 / Chapter 31-Responsible Citizenship
Chapter 32-Education for Lifelong Learning
Week 36 / Review and Final Exam