pre-employment
Pre-Employment classes
We offer a wide range of services to meet every type of industry.
We build a core
foundation for students to be successful in the market place by addressing "their needs".
Student Needs: - Security – We desire health, safety, familiarity, and competence.
- Status – We seek recognition of our contributions.
- Achievement – We strive for excellence and take pride in our accomplishments.
- Autonomy – We seek freedom in our actions and decisions.
- Purpose – We want to make a meaningful difference.
- Belonging – We want a meaningful connection to others.
Research Documents:
General Tenants:
1. Will change careers equally as jobs.
2. Life-skills are transferable between careers/jobs
3. Think of yourself as in your own business. … Your boss is your customer. Build your brand.
4. Problems are opportunities … the bigger the problem the bigger the opportunity. Vinod Khosla
5. Use the engineering mind-set to focus on all the activities around your normal position.
6. Learn from your errors … They are learning tools
7. Be a lifelong learner … Have fun at it.
Pre-Employment: ... 16 week class description below:
Weeks 1-4
- Getting to know each other
- Develop our team culture
- What is our problem to work on?
Goals:
• Becoming part of a team and its values
• Make your team members successful
• Understanding the company’s relationship to you
• How teams are all around us
- Framing the problem
- Research / Plan the problem
- Problem-solving process
Goals:
• Understand the problem-solving process
• See the positive effect of working as a team
• See the assumptions & core values of my mind-set
• Begin my journey in developing my attitude
• Be able to articulate my thoughts to others.
Goals:
• Articulate the min-set of ownership thinking
• Understand the history of work & the relationship of the worker to the organization … How does it get better?
• Understand about my social skills and how does it make me better
• How do I describe my brand and its relationship to finding employment
Goals:
• Think like a business owner
• Understand the issues of a company
• Understand financial literacy
• Develop my thinking skills ( creative & critical thinking), questioning, system thinking and reflection.
• Ready to enter the work market and be an excellent owner
How are our classes organized and what is their structure.
- Our learning object is accomplished by doing; and less by instruction.
- The teacher acts as a facilitator with the students while they do their projects.
- Contract between student & Project Academy
One-hour Class Period Structure
- 15 min. of class learning/discussion
- 30 min. of Exercise / Activities by the teams
- Break
Class Activities ... Tied to the curriculum
- Improv.
- Drawing exercise
- Problem solving
- Team building games
- Socratic Questioning
