Contextualized Instruction Teaching the skills needed for todays jobs

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Contextualized InstructionTeaching the skills
needed for todays jobs

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What is Contextualized Instruction?

• Providing instruction for the development of
  skills, knowledge, and attitudes drawn from the
  context in which they will be used, using
  real-life materials and situations from that
  context. Work-based basic skills is an example
  of a particular context.

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What does that look like?

• When teaching reading an adult education
  instructor may use the following workplace
  materials
• Food order slips
• Logs of working hours
• Appropriate safety procedures
• Operation procedures
• Safety logs

• When teaching math an adult education instructor
  may use the following workplace skills
• Compute sales prices
• Count finished products to determine if product
  orders are complete
• Weigh or measure ingredients
• Collect payments from customers
• Balance currency, coin, and checks in cash
  drawers

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How do we know what skills are needed?

• Local labor market information
• Targeted Industry Clusters
• High Priority Occupations
• Learner Self-appraisal

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How do we organize those skills?

• The Foundation Skills Framework
• Basic Workplace Skills
• Basic Employability Skills
• Basic Workplace Knowledge
• Lifelong Learning Skills

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How does that work?

• Each skill has accompanying competencies and
  tasks
• For example
• Skill Observes Critically
• Competency Sets purpose and strategies for
  observing
• Tasks Identifies what is to be observed
• Establishes purpose and goal for
  observation
• Determines the best time to
  observe, if applicable

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Lessons and activities

• are built around teaching the particular skills
  using materials and scenarios needed for success
  in the workplace.
• are designed to include measures for learner
  gains through observation, surveys, checklists,
  and role plays.

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