An easy-to-use solution to prepare people for work that includes activities on use of computers, data entry, employability skills, functional vocabulary, soft skills, and conversational skills.
Included:
- Computers at Work software
- Learning to Work collection of stories
- Get a Job Curriculum
- Conversation Skills Curriculum
Computers at Work Software
Skills-based program that focuses on order processing and data entry computer skills that prepare users for office jobs.
- Challenges students to work independently for over an hour
- Differentiates instruction with three difficult levels
- Students progress from basic tasks to entering orders, checking inventories, and determining payment methods
- web-based version available
Learning to Work
Learning to Work provides engaging and age-appropriate reading material for adolescents and young adults who do not read conventionally. Collection includes 18 photo-illustrated stories that are intended to be read with a partner ½a same-age peer who is reading at grade level ½ a teacher or a parent.
- Provides a simple and consistent structure with repetitive phrases
- Includes characters with disabilities in actual work settings
- Instructor's Guide provides a research-based framework and additional activity pages
Get a Job Curriculum
A functional curriculum for job-related social and self-management skills for the workplace and home environments
- Teaches skills for successfully getting and maintaining a job
- Supports review and assessment of videotaped interview skills
- Key concepts include self-examining personal strengths and weaknesses, creative problem-solving, self-confidence and assertiveness, advocacy, and accepting responsibility
Conversation Skills Curriculum
A curriculum to help secondary students initiate and extend conversations at school, home, and in the community
Tracks and graphs student progress
Includes role play scenarios and self-managed worksheets
Features
- Emphasizes the importance of both hard and soft skills for employment
- Focuses on skills that prepare people for jobs in different work settings
- Includes activities for how to initiate and maintain conversations on the job, at home, and with friends
- Reflects on providers' ability to offer pre-vocational opportunities to their client base
Technical Specifications
Computers at Work:
Desktop: Windows 7 or higher, Mac OS 10.12 or higher. iOS v9.0 or higher. Android v6 or higher. Web version runs on Windows, Mac, and Chromebooks with the following minimum browser versions: Chrome v75, Safari v12.1, Microsoft Edge v18, and Firefox v67.
