Guidance
(Navigating the Workplace)

Essential Skills Portfolio

  

Activities Summary

In this activity, students will:
  • Collect items that reflect their personal growth and experience as they relate to the Essential Skills
  • Create or choose a suitable container to hold the items collected that reflect their personal growth and experience as related to the Essential Skills and their complexity levels.
  • Prepare a checklist for the project
  • Submit nine (9) half-page reflective journal entries – one for each Essential Skill
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Prior Knowledge

  • Essential Skills and Complexity Levels
  • Reflective journal format

Teaching Planning Notes

  • Review assignment including prior knowledge required and rubric
  • Provide suggestions for materials they will need to use and source out
    themselves
  • Arrange for a display case in school for completed containers upon completion of assignment
  • Provide an exemplar

Assessment and Evaluation of Student Achievement

Task Tool / Type
Create a container Rubric
Checklist Rubric
Reflective Journals Rubric
woman carrying bag of skills

Activities and Evaluation Materials

  • Assignment Sheet
  • Container Rubric
  • Reflective Journal Evaluation Sheet
FOCUS ON LEARNING

Essential Skills:

Writing Skills
Reflective Journals
Checklist
Thinking Skills
Reflective Journals
Container Assignment
Checklist
Computer Use
Reflective Journals
Container Assignment
Checklist
Continuous Learning
Container Assignment
Document Use
Checklist