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High Priority Vocabulary Life Skills Application
Modern calendar skills include using a DIGITAL calendar. Use the discussion prompts below and decide if you want to watch this video on entering an item in Google Calendar to support learning.
Beginner Discussion Prompt
What is a Google Account?
Who can get a Google Account?
What can you do with a digital (online) calendar.
Intermediate Discussion Prompt
Who uses a calendar to track their schedule?
Do you have a calendar on your cell phone?
Have you ever put an appointment in it?
Advanced Discussion Prompt
Who has a calendar on their cell phone?
Do you enter appointments in it?
Do you use a google calendar or a different one?
Do you ever have your phone remind you of appointments?
Show & Share
Think of a job you've always wanted to try . Share your "Dream Job" and what about that job is so interesting to you? Do you know anyone who has had that job? Are there any other positions that are related to that job?
Next weeks Show & Share will focus on self-employment, being a business owner or service provider.
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*Life Skills Story Activity Sheet
Setting goals and working toward them is very satisfying. Look at this worksheet together. Those with the page at home can fill it in for themselves. Discuss the kinds of goals that your team might choose for each life area. Brainstorm small steps you can take toward those goals.
Does the worksheet remind you of your ISP meeting? What is similar? What is different?
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Thematic Connection—Workplace Friendship
Go through this slide show about how to make friends at work.
PRESENTERS: Choose the slides that make sense to discuss with your group. Let their questions and observations lead the conversation.
If your group has work experience, prompt them to discuss friendships they have made at work. Share your own experiences of making a lasting friend in the workplace if you like.
*the double arrow icon in the bottom right takes the slide show full screen. Type the ESC key on a keyboard to return to smaller viw.
TV Shows About Work
Here are some funny clips about crazy work places. These are fictional TV shows so a lot of things they show are not actually appropriate workplace behavior. Can you tell what is inappropriate behavior in the REAL workplace? Is there a version of the behavior that might be appropriate?
Practical Joke - ONLY NEED TO SEE THE FIRST 20 SECONDS
Customer Service--ONLY NEED TO SEE THE FIRST 1-2 MINUTES
Angry Boss--ONLY NEED TO SEE THE FIRST 50 SECONDS
Discuss how workplace behavior, even if you are friends with people at work, is in some ways different than personal behavior.
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Types of Relationships
These are videos that explore the idea of how to interact with other people at work.
Simon Sinek explains different types of relationships
Friendship at work and happiness
Do you agree, disagree, or have a different idea from the people in the videos?
Is making friends at program similar to making friends at work or is it different?
What about the relationships you have with staff or supervisors at job sites? Are those friendships more like the professional relationships that they talk about in the videos? Or are they more like friendships?
Share your experiences and learning on what friendships, work friendships, and professional relationships are like in your life.
What Did We Learn Today?
