CTC Employability Skills
                                                               By:   Kim Schrader & Betsi Roelofs

Project at a Glance : 

This project is designed to help students in the EMS program learn about what skills make good employees, based on the OAISD SkillSense portfolio and Skills4Success.  The project is created with the intention of being transferable to all programs at the Careerline Tech Center.
       
 
Driving Question:

How can we showcase our students' employability and professional skills to future employers?             

Standards:

• SkillsSense:  Teamwork, Flexibility, and Communication
• Skills4Success:  Personal Accountability and Responsibility

Team / Culture Building:

• Values Cards​

Entry Event:

• Students will be given six resumes and only two minutes to sort them.  Challenge: Choose the top two people based on the resume with the understanding that teamwork is a key value.  Then they will use DOT voting to compare their results with everyone.

Stakeholders:

• EMS Students, CTC instructors, CTC students, Employers, WBL, CTC, Advisory Boards, Paras, victims, victims’ families, and Student’s families

Empathy Building:

• Hopes/Fears/Norms
• Stakeholders Map 

Inquiry / Need to Knows:

• Reflect on the Stakeholder information
• Interactions with industry professionals, especially HR personnel at LIFE EMS and AMR​​

Provide Google Doc with a variety of resources: 

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fz7wmlfwpBob5VwXmbD1SOy_ei2xojwQk93DsBHDWg0/edit?usp=sharing 

Incubation:

• Idea Quota - protocol to generate solution ideas
• Anti-Problem  - protocol - What would it look like if a job candidate WASN’T a team player? Create skits based on protocol results
• Mind-Mapping

Checking in:

• Gallery Walk - featuring posters/Anchor Docs
• Speed Dating- allows students to check in with peers.

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Solution Building:

• Students will use ideas from the Mind Mapping activity to create their final product.

Critique and Revision: 

• Mind Mapping
• Elevator Pitch

Authentic Audience:​

• Industry professionals
• HR representatives
• Advisory Board Members
• Alumni students
• Administration

Final Presentation:

• Part one: Individual Sessions - Mind-mapping share out
• Part two:  Cumulative - Optional 60 second “interview” with advisory members, followed by updating/creating resume/portfolio
• Create a video and resume for an interview​

Click here for teacher's full plan for Teamwork section of the project.

Reflection and Feedback:

• The SkillSense rubric
• Revisit the resume entrance event and use what they’ve learned to re-evaluate their choices.  Would they hold? Or will they choose to revise based on project experience?

Click here to follow the teacher's Journey through PBL on Padlet . . .

Meet the Educators:

​Betsi Roelofs taught math at the high school level for 21 years and now is an instructional coach at the Careerline Tech Center.
Kim Schrader has been a paramedic for 27 years and has worked at the Careerline Tech Center for the last 15 years, first as a paraprofessional and then as the lead instructor. ​

     "I love how Design Thinking helps students work together with their strengths to solve problems they will need to in their future careers/lives."  ~ B. Roelofs

     "I enjoy watching students learn to collaborate and discover solutions to problems in a fun and engaging way."  ~ K. Schrader