Soft Skills Lesson: Smile, Eye Contact, Posture and Gestures, Tone of Voice

Employability Skills Framework – Personal Attributes – Pair/Share

Lesson essential questions on Manners/Attitude

PowerPoint and Notes – Manners and Attitude in the Workplace

Positive Attitude –  review – Taking Positive Attitudes to Work – Handout

Give everyone a dress for job success handout – let’s review – students highlight – Discuss various dress expectations in the workplace regarding different situations:  company picnic, Christmas party, interview, daily dress, dress down days.

Students create a mini poster reflecting proper business attire – Use magazines

Bellringer: Scenarios – Tagged – Proper business attire

Lecture on short term, intermediate and long term goals

Lecture on career, personal, educational goals

Students create a graphic organizer for their life goals.

Students take notes on SMART Goals

Make a graphic organizer and go ahead and fill in employability skills and professional appearance.

Let’s talk about job applications – to do and NOT to do – show samples of job applications – Let’s fill out an application for employment.

Review the DOL handout for employment applications

Explain to student that they need references for next week.

Tables Practice Today – Both tables due before the end of class 

Take up Syllabus -Soft Skills Lesson: Professionalism: Standing for Introductions (tagged) – Lesson on Memos and Restaurant Proposal Memo

Students complete Restaurant Proposal Memo today

Take up Syllabus – Soft Skills Lesson: Smile –  Soft Skills vs. hard skills – Employability Skills –  Skills, Qualities, Values Lecture and Notes

What kind of skills do you think employers want from you? What kind of skills would you want in an employee? Let’s make a list on the board.

Groups of 2…………..  classify cards into three groups and then color the cards

I can…. (skills)

I am….. (qualities)

I believe in ……. (values)

Choose a career and use cards to make project with colored words – Ethics Grade

Take up Syllabus –  Soft Skills Lesson – Eye Contact – Discussion:   Modeling Work Readiness Traits in the Workplace: Integrity, honesty, accountability, punctuality, time management and respect for diversity. How important are these things?

Employability Skills Framework Handout and Worksheet – Let’s do this together aloud in class.

Employability Skills Worksheet Checklist (if time) (homework if not finished in class) – Formative Grade (table)

How do we communicate? How are you developing your communication skills at school?

Communication Chain

Take up Syllabus – Soft Skills Lesson – Postures and Gestures – Aloud: Scenarios for Employability Skills – notebook

Manners/Attitude (tagged in notebook)

PowerPoint and Notes – Manners and Attitude in the Workplace

Taking Positive Attitudes to Work – Handout

Soft Skills Lesson:  Tone of Voice – GMETRIX Accounts set up today.

What is a logo? Discussion and examples

Draw your Restaurant LOGO