Employability Skill Standards | Origin: HQ101
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CTE High-quality Framework: Standards-aligned and Integrated Curriculum --> Employability Skill Standards
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I often include employability skill in my grade book as an assignment. I use it as an alternative to "participation". I think it is important to assist students with developing soft skills and to use them regularly so that when in the workplace it won't be an issue for them.
I've never heard that employability skills should be weighed as heavily as technical and academic skills, but it makes sense. I am grateful to have resources like the employability skills rubric to guide this and will add this to my instructional planning tools.
It is criticial to have a rubric and figure out a way to provide feedback for students on employability skills.
Employability can be taught just like technical and academic skills. Rubrics are needed to help students see improvement. We must formalize our process and spend more time with our students and teachers, stressing this critical area's importance, especially since it's worth forty percent of a student's grade.
