The Classroom as a Workplace

The industries represented by the Wyoming Mining Association emphasize safe work practices extending to home and lifestyle, rely on advanced technologies and require a highly trained work force. The classroom can provide students practice in preparation to share and meet those requirements through Minequesting.

While each minequest represents a unique "profile" of links to Wyoming standards in various content areas, all share common themes embedded in the Career and Vocational Standards listed here. Considering careers and systems and exploring solutions to problems while working in teams captures the essence of this content area.
Wyoming Career Vocational Standards
Grade Level Benchmarks
 #4 Students demonstrate an understanding of how social, organizational, and technological systems work.

#6 Students develop skills in career planning and workplace.
4

Students:

1. identify components of family, community, and school systems in everyday life.

2. explain the need for rules within organizational systems. school systems in everyday life.

Students:

1. identify various occupations.
2. Students describe how current learning relates to career options.
3. Students describe how work relates to meeting needs for
goods, clothing, shelter, and other necessities for living.
4. Students identify behaviors that contribute to the successful completion of workplace tasks.

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1. explain how systems operate and impact students’ lives.

2. identify technical systems and explain how they are used in the workplace.

1. explore careers.
2. identify careers that align with individual strengths, interests, and coursework.
3. describe employability skills.
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1. evaluate the quality and performance of a variety of systems.

2. Students suggest modifications to existing systems and develop new or alternative ideas for systems to improve performance. and technological systems work.

 1. Students interpret information from a variety of self-assessments to identify career interests, abilities, personal traits, and work values.
2. Students locate and interpret career information and labor market trends from a variety of sources.
3. Students create, evaluate, and revise career plans.
4. Students demonstrate skills to seek, obtain, maintain, and
change jobs.

 

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