Teaching the Scans Competencies

Teaching the Scans Competencies
Author: DIANE Publishing Company
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 128
Release: 1994-03
Genre:
ISBN: 0788105973

Provides expanded definitions of the SCANS competencies as well as key concepts involved in incorporating them into the school curriculum. Examples of teaching the SCANS competencies or engaging in skill identification efforts are drawn from 27 different schools.

Teaching the SCANS Competencies

Teaching the SCANS Competencies
Author: United States. Department of Labor. Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills
Publisher:
Total Pages: 128
Release: 1993
Genre: Basic education
ISBN:

Teaching the SCANS Competencies

Teaching the SCANS Competencies
Author: Department of Labor, Washington, DC. Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills
Publisher:
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1993
Genre: Basic education
ISBN:

SCANS (the Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills) provides definitions of the knowledge students and workers need for workplace success and methods for applying these principles in communities throughout the United States. This document contains six articles that give education and training practitioners practical suggestions for applying SCANS in classrooms and workplaces: "SCANS in the Schools" (Kopple et al.) helps educators incorporating SCANS competencies into curricula and instruction by identifying issues likely to arise and giving examples of incorporation of specific competencies; "Implementing SCANS: First Lessons" (Meltzer, White, and Matheson) highlights 10 examples of state and local efforts to strengthen school-work linkages; "Students Use SCANS to Explore Changing Jobs: Lessons of IndianaPLUS" (Harr) describes replicable lessons from a statewide Indiana project in which high school seniors assessed skills requirements in local workplaces and communicated the results to other students and throughout their communities; "Preparing Limited English Proficiency Students for the Workplace" (Grognet) focuses on special issues for educators whose students are first- or second-generation immigrants, and who must teach the SCANS competencies in English and in the context and culture of U.S. workplaces; "Technology and High-Performance Schools: A SCANS Survey" (Schmidt, Packer) specifies what schools and technology companies would buy if they had $1,000 per student to spend on computer hardware; and "Assessment of the SCANS Competencies: Some Examples" (Wirt) features promising activities and approaches for assessing how well the SCANS competencies are being taught and learned. A list of SCANS members is included in the report. (KC)

Skills for Success Teacher's Manual

Skills for Success Teacher's Manual
Author: Donna Price-Machado
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2000-06-19
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780521657419

This resource for teachers integrates English language instruction with the teaching of the competencies essential for succeeding on the job or in an academic setting. It contains teacher instructions and resource materials, activities and exercises for teaching the SCANS (Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills) competencies.

Learning a Living

Learning a Living
Author:
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 105
Release: 1993-06
Genre:
ISBN: 1568067097

Summarizes why change is needed in America's schools and workplaces. Outlines recommendations for achieving high-performance schools and workplaces. Includes standards, assessments and certification.

Empowering Teachers for Equitable and Sustainable Education

Empowering Teachers for Equitable and Sustainable Education
Author: Maria Teresa Tatto
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2024-04-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1040019439

This groundbreaking book uses a comprehensive study of a novel Master of Education program to showcase how teachers can be engaged in authoritative equity‐based research, using comparative education theory, inquiry‐based pedagogy, and the UNESCO SDGs as powerful frameworks. By developing agency to advance culturally sustaining and humanizing practices, it demonstrates how teachers can promote equity in their classrooms and communities. The central premise of the program is that teachers must become comparative, global, and local action researchers to have agency in their practice and to become effective advocates for the cultural and learning needs of their students, especially those in disadvantaged contexts or “learning at the bottom of the pyramid.” By learning comparative framing and social science methods, reviewing the literature to select verifiable educational research, and developing and implementing a plan for action research, this book offers new ideas for how teachers can effectively respond to recent UNESCO calls to reimagine and create promising futures locally. By providing formative and summative evidence of culturally and socially transformative learning, and showcasing how teacher educators can engage teachers in authoritative justice‐inquiry‐based research, this book will appeal to scholars, faculty, and researchers of comparative education and teacher education, and development.