Employability Skills Checklist

By Amber O’Casey

Curriculum Coordinator

CTE Curriculum Coordinator

Government & Public Administration

Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security

 

Are you looking for ways to develop your students’ employability skills? Well, look no farther. The Perkins Collaborative Research Center has developed an employability skills checklist tool. This user-friendly assessment is customizable so you can tailor it to meet the needs of your classroom or your individual students. To create a checklist simply visit their website and follow the three-step instructions:

1.    Choose the type of checklist (teacher or student)

2.    Select all or some of the employability skills that you want to assess

3.    Click the create the checklist icon 

The result is a personalized employability skills assessment in the form of a .pdf file. The assessment may be used in many ways such as, inventorying the employability skills already present in your lessons or creating a customized rubric to strengthen specific skills for individual students. As a bonus the online master checklist provides general activity ideas for each employability skill. These can be used to develop specific skills in your students or to assess the skills that you are teaching during your favorite class activities. This tool is an efficient and effective way to make employability skills a clear and measurable aspect of your classroom at no cost. Enjoy!

SOURCE: http://cte.ed.gov/employabilityskills/index.php/developingskills/create_checklist (2014)