January 15 meeting at WIB
Discussion of "Career Ready Graduate" definition and the skills and competencies necessary to be a career ready grad. The top 5 skills identified by the Commission and this workgroup (ranked by order of importance) are:
- Work ethics
- Basic education proficiency
- Workplace communication
- Collaboration and teamwork
- Critical thinking
Details and possible definitions:
- Work ethics
- self motivated
- willingness
- attention to detail
- professionalism
- decorum
- responsibility
- Basic education proficiency
- English, written, verbal communication
- math
- digital, computer literacy
- Workplace communication
- listening and folling directions
- ability to articulate workplace needs
- communication mechanics
- communication etique
- Collaboration and teamwork
- Patience, ager management, maturity, emotional control
- getting along with others
- championship team vs. team of champions
- value of diversity of ideas, skills, and strengths as well as tolerance, acceptance, and appreciation
- ability to listen
- working with others toward a common goal
- Critical thinking
- problem solving
- multi-tasking
- identifying solutions, creativity
- thinking outside of the box, process skills
- understanding systems
- decision making
- persistence
Next Meeting:
- February 5, 2009 12pm
- Fresno County WIB Offices
- call Blake Konczal for more information: 559-490-7100
- Agenda
- Finalize defintion of a "Career Ready Graduate"
- Determine how to measure these skills and competencies and think about how students will attain them.
- Questions of career awareness - aka. workplace knowledge