Setting SMART Goals

This is a lesson on learning about and using SMART goals in the short and long term for high school students.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Janet Buchhammer

Mind the Gap: Navigating Transitions in Life with Mindfulness

Mind the Gap encourages you to be mindful of that gap that takes place in various transitions in life: when you go away to college, travel to a foreign country, move to a new city, or start a new job. Until you start to feel at home in your new environment, you must negotiate feelings of discomfort. Mindfulness draws attention to your experience of transition, enabling you to cultivate an embodied presence, receptivity, and awareness of whatever arises in yourself and your surroundings, without judging or rejecting your experience. All too often, when we feel uncomfortable or unsettled, we immediately want to alleviate our feelings of discomfort by seeking comfort or distraction. When we do this, we rob ourselves of the opportunity to grow and develop in new ways.

Material Type: Textbook

Author: Beverley McGuire

Time Log Workbook (Template)

This Google Sheet was created to support a Time Management module in a Strategies for College Success course. The plan is for the instructor to share one copy of the Sheet with each student for an assignment lasting 2 or 3 weeks. Students estimate the time they spend each week on common daily tasks, such as sleeping, working, or attending class. Space is provided for students to enter up to three custom tasks. After estimating how they spend time, students track their time spent for a full week. Through the magic of spreadsheet formulas, time spent per task is color-coded to help visualize large and small blocks of time. Time for the week is tallied on the summary tab, where a warning message appears if less than 24 hours are logged for any given day. After comparing their estimated hours to their actual recorded hours, students propose changes they can make in how they spend their time to increase their scholastic success. A tab with five questions is included for student reflection. Instructions for how to use the Sheet are provided for faculty on the Info & LIcense tab. Cell formulas are editable only by the document owner; students cannot accidentally overwrite. Colors are selected from a palette known to be perceivable by people with most forms of colorblindness. Author contact information is available on the Info and License tab.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Homework/Assignment

Author: Cheryl Colan

Manage Your Time

LEARNING OBJECTIVESBy the end of this chapter, you will be able to:Understand the relationship between goals and time management.Consider how your priorities impact your time.Identify your time management personality.Assess your current use of time.Understand the basic principles of time management and planning.Use a calendar planner and daily to-do list to plan ahead for study tasks and manage your time effectively.Explore time management tips and strategies.Identify procrastination behaviors and strategies to avoid them.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Homework/Assignment, Module

Author: Thompson Ly

Strategy Guide: Assessing Student Interests and Strengths

In this Strategy Guide, you'll learn about a number of specific methods that can help you to gain a fuller picture of the interests of your students as well as what your students understand, know, and can demonstrate by doing. By understanding the varying literacy strengths and habits of our students we can identify what Vygotsky calls their "zone of proximal development" where literacy opportunities are not too hard as to frustrate or too easy to bore but just challenging enough to promote student learning. With a keen eye, we can observe the interests and strengths of our students and, when possible, we can consider these to plan learning opportunities for our students. By providing choice and respectful tasks, we can provide meaningful literacy experiences.

Material Type: Reading, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Oh the places you’ll go… - Mariah Brown

Discover what your interests are and how they relate to the world of work. The interest profiler will help a student decide what kinds of occupations and jobs they might want to explore based on interests. As a class, they will view “Success in the New Economy.” Students will complete an online interest assessment using the Pennsylvania CareerZone online mini assessment. Based on their results, they will explore and pick 3 careers within the identified areas of interest.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Larissa Mallon

Elevator Pitch

The purpose of the elevator pitch activity is to encourage graduate students to think clearly about how they communicate their professional identity. In this assignment, students are asked to identify: strengths and skills; areas of interest in their disclipline; and professional goals for the near term. Students work to develop a 30-40 second elevator pitch that they can use in networking scenarios and career events. Created by Steven Harris-Scott, Ph.D., Amy Lewis, Ed.D., and Emma Cutrufello, Ph.D., for INTO George Mason University with support from Mason 4-VA.

Material Type: Module

Author: Emma Cutrufello

Most Common and Toughest HR Interview Questions

HR Interview Questions are the most crucial part of a Job Interview. This is a list of some of the Toughest as well as commonly asked questions. These questions shall need a concerned read and a self-check of your competence to deliver sensible answers.

Material Type: Reading

Author: EklavyaParv

Relationship Building and Leadership in Professional Spaces

Building a relationship in your professional life can take a lot of work. Consider some of the ways that you can work to build relationships within and outsi...

Material Type: Lesson

Organizing Research: The Why and the How

A worksheet and short presentation in PDF format designed to introduce students to different strategies for oganizing research. 

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: Emily Campbell

Time Management: A MS Health Lesson

Secondary educators across Lebanon County, Pennsylvania developed lesson plans to integrate the Pennsylvania Career Education and Work Standards with the content they teach. This work was made possible through a partnership between the South Central PA Workforce Investment Board (SCPa Works) and Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13 (IU13) and was funded by a Teacher in the Workplace Grant Award from the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry. This lesson plan was developed by one of the talented educators who participated in this project during the 2018-2019 school year.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Authors: Kelly Galbraith, Sean McClintick

Hard and Soft Skills: A MS Career Lesson

Secondary educators across Lebanon County, Pennsylvania developed lesson plans to integrate the Pennsylvania Career Education and Work Standards with the content they teach. This work was made possible through a partnership between the South Central PA Workforce Investment Board (SCPa Works) and Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13 (IU13) and was funded by a Teacher in the Workplace Grant Award from the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry. This lesson plan was developed by one of the talented educators who participated in this project during the 2018-2019 school yea

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Kelly Galbraith

Preparing a Digital Career Portfolio: A HS Career Seminar Lesson

Secondary educators across Lebanon County, Pennsylvania developed lesson plans to integrate the Pennsylvania Career Education and Work Standards with the content they teach. This work was made possible through a partnership between the South Central PA Workforce Investment Board (SCPa Works) and Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13 (IU13) and was funded by a Teacher in the Workplace Grant Award from the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry. This lesson plan was developed by one of the talented educators who participated in this project during the 2018-2019 school year.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Authors: Kelly Galbraith, Holly Hartman

Effective Communication Skills: A MS Health Lesson

Secondary educators across Lebanon County, Pennsylvania developed lesson plans to integrate the Pennsylvania Career Education and Work Standards with the content they teach. This work was made possible through a partnership between the South Central PA Workforce Investment Board (SCPa Works) and Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13 (IU13) and was funded by a Teacher in the Workplace Grant Award from the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry. This lesson plan was developed by one of the talented educators who participated in this project during the 2018-2019 school year.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Authors: Kelly Galbraith, Lynn Lechleitner

Bridging the Skills Gap: A MS Career Lesson

Secondary educators across Lebanon County, Pennsylvania developed lesson plans to integrate the Pennsylvania Career Education and Work Standards with the content they teach. This work was made possible through a partnership between the South Central PA Workforce Investment Board (SCPa Works) and Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13 (IU13) and was funded by a Teacher in the Workplace Grant Award from the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry. This lesson plan was developed by one of the talented educators who participated in this project during the 2018-2019 school year.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Authors: Matthew Gross, Kelly Galbraith

11th Grade Resume Writing and Mock Interview

Middle and High School educators across Lebanon County, Pennsylvania developed lesson plans to integrate the Pennsylvania Career Education and Work Standards with the content they teach. This work was made possible through a partnership between the South Central PA Workforce Investment Board (SCPa Works) and Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13 (IU13) and was funded by a Teacher in the Workplace Grant Award from the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry. This lesson plan was developed by one of the talented educators who participated in this project during the 2019-2020 school year.

Material Type: Lesson

Authors: Rachael Haverstick, Elizabeth Kline

About Me Speech

Middle and High School educators across Lebanon County, Pennsylvania developed lesson plans to integrate the Pennsylvania Career Education and Work Standards with the content they teach. This work was made possible through a partnership between the South Central PA Workforce Investment Board (SCPa Works) and Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13 (IU13) and was funded by a Teacher in the Workplace Grant Award from the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry. This lesson plan was developed by one of the talented educators who participated in this project during the 2019-2020 school year.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Authors: Rachael Haverstick, Juliette DeVore

Teamwork Presentation

Presentation about teamwork in the workplace.

Material Type: Lecture

Author: Aujalee Moore

Remixed Professionalism Presentation

Presentation about professionalism in the workplace

Material Type: Lecture

Author: Aujalee Moore

LinkedIn Workshop Materials

LinkedIn Workshops that taught students how to use LinkedIn to network, prepare for interviews, and land a job!

Material Type: Lecture

Author: Collin County Community College District