I am a Teacher

• How can I use the profiles?
• How can I use the Reader's Guide?
• How can I use the Authentic Workplace Materials?

Information on particular occupations can be used to prepare for

• visits to workplaces
• career fairs/panels
• guest speakers
• internships

Search the Profiles using "Occupation". You can search using a job (occupation) title or a code from the National Occupational Classification.

Connect to other sources of information about the occupation using the Links to Other Sites at the end of each profile.

(NOTE: Not all occupations are on the database. What occupations are profiled?)

Information on specific skills can be used

• to show how a skill that you teach is used in a particular occupation or a set of occupations
• to find real work examples that could give you ideas for classroom learning activities. To get more ideas for classroom activities, visit the Applications of Working and Learning web site.
• to help show students the relevance of what you are teaching
• when helping students set targets for skill development. If this interests you, see how students can use the Occupational Profiles.
• to find out how school-based standards relate to workplace requirements

Search using "Skills" to find occupations that use skills in a particular way. For example, occupations that involve complex decision making, or resolving conflicts, or reading assembly diagrams.

You may want to use"Advanced Search" to find a set of occupations.

Ideas for Using the Readers' Guide to Essential Skills Profiles

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

• as a tool to guide students who are self-assessing their skill levels. (If this interests you, you might want to visit the Essential Skills Portfolio Developer web site.)
• in recording the skills students have demonstrated, for example in co-op or other work placements.
• in developing classroom activities in "soft skills" at progressively more complex levels. (You may find it useful to consider the components identified for concepts such as Problem Solving and seeing how these components each range from simple to complex. This may help to identify stepping stones in the skill development process.)
  View the Reader's Guide.

How Can I use the Authentic Workplace Materials

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.

You might use samples from particular occupations to give students a look at some of the activities and skill requirements of jobs they are interested in or jobs they will be entering on a co-op placement.

These samples focus on the use of three Essential Skills, Reading Text, Document Use and Writing.

View the User Guide to Authentic Workplace Materials.