Hard Skills: Get Your Certifications Now!
How can I begin building my hard skills and gain certifications that will help me reach my future career goals?
Competencies:
Level 1:, A.4, C.14, C.16, C.17, C.18, C.19, D.21, D.24, F.37, G.40, G.42, H.73
Level 2: A.1, A.3, D. 22, F.33, G.53
Level 3: A.2, A.6, C.15, E.28, G.39, G.54, H.76, H.77, H.78
Summary
This Flex PBL is intended to show students how they can begin gaining certifications now and boost their skill set to improve their chances of gaining successful employment in the future. Students will create a multimedia presentation that describes hard skills they would like to obtain that could help them in their future career and why they would be beneficial. They will also construct a plan to pursue certifications for those hard skills- potentially beginning now! Using the free, highly interactive online training program provided by Skills to Succeed Academy (S2SA), this project includes two modules that are relevant to this project.
The two S2SA modules being used from the Choose a Career section are:
1) Find Your Future
2) Get Some Experience
Skills to Succeed Academy is a proud sponsor of the JAG organization and strives to support JAG students in completing modules as a way to boost their employability skills. Each year S2SA seeks to connect youth with their valuable courses; however, this year their resources are needed more than ever. S2SA modules can be administered in variety of ways:
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Assigned for students to complete outside of school in an asynchronous manner
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Streamed to groups or classrooms of students via a video conferencing service
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Facilitated in-person through a classroom overhead projector