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Ideas for Using the Occupational Profiles
You can use this part of the web site to find:
Using the Profiles in curriculum development Tailoring curriculum to your learners' varied occupations or occupational interests will be easier and more efficient if you start with the relevant Occupational Profiles. The Profiles provide information on how the Essential Skills are used in that occupation. The illustrative examples given for each skill may give you ideas for classroom learning activities that would be particularly relevant to your learners. They can also suggest some of the workplace authentic materials (forms, manuals, etc.) that you may want to obtain for use in classroom activities. To find information on particular occupations
(NOTE: Not all occupations are on the database. What occupations are profiled?)
Using the Profiles to find real work examples to integrate into your program
Using the profiles to get help for your learners in setting their skill development targets
This accesses information about the complexity scale for Problem Solving. Start by looking at the examples that illustrate the levels of the scale. Have they done anything that looks like the examples for Level 1? Level 2? or higher? You may want to look at the formal definitions of the scale. Do you want to see more examples of the Levels?
Now that they have thought about their skills, they can compare them to the skills required in the occupations that interest them.
For more help in thinking about their skills, your learners can visit the ESPORT - Essential Skills Portfolio.
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Use this to understand the terms used in the Essential Skills profiles and the measurement scales used to describe the complexity of tasks. You may find the complexity scales useful
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The sample workplace materials made available here can be reproduced for use in learning activities in your classroom. (The copyright permissions allowing such use have been obtained.) The write-up accompanying each sample provides some ideas for how you might use it or how you might use documents like it. This could give you some ideas for how to use other documents in the classroom that are more relevant to your particular learners You might use samples from particular occupations to give learners a look at some of the activities and skill requirements in the kinds of jobs they are interested in. View the User Guide to Authentic Workplace Materials.
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