Developing Career and Living Skills, Third Edition

Developing Career and Living Skills equips students with skills and attitudes necessary for a successful high school career and transition into postsecondary and workplace environments by investigating trends in careers, career opportunities, and life skills. With a strong emphasis on career education, this text is a tool that complements and enhances existing curricula and standards.

Written for the Orientation to Life Career course (grades 7 to 10), Developing Career and Living Skills includes colorful charts, illustrations, activities, chapter reviews, vocabulary terms, and learning objectives. The author, Mary Sue Burkhardt, is a well-known and well-respected Family and Consumer Science department chair. Numerous teachers and professors have reviewed and class-tested this new product and found it to be outstanding.

KEY FEATURES

• Current and up-to-date information
• Clear, engaging writing style and interior design
• Interactive activities
• Excellent coverage of family and living skills - written by a true consumer science teacher and writer
• Supplements that are closelyintegrated with the textbook - integrated teaching and testing systems
• Modular approach - teachers can easily adapt the content to meet course requirements and student needs
• Written for one-semester courses
• Sidebars present scenarios students will encounter on the job and ask students to think through their responses, addressing discrimination, diversity, ethical issues, on-the-job competencies, and mental wellness.
• Networking and Community assignments give students opportunities to develop their skills in the most effective method for finding a job - networking.
• Role playing performance assessments develop students' understanding of and experience with key concepts presented in the chapter.
• Summary of key concepts presented in the chapter.
• Writing assignment for reviewing key terms.
• Cross-curricular activities that build workplace competencies.
• Real-life job ad that introduces students to the language they will encounter in employment ads and the types of educational, experience, and skills requirements employers expect.