College and Career Awareness

highlighting how to introduce a problem, describe a solution, and evaluate outcomes. ●​ Highlight language features (e.g., transition words, formal tone) in professional emails or workplace memos for students to emulate. ● Allow students to use a mix of their home language and English. ●​ Allow students to brainstorm personal strengths in their home language before translating key ideas into English for a resume or personal statement. ●​ Use bilingual glossaries or paired discussions to bridge vocabulary across languages during critical thinking tasks. ● Provide discussion supports with sentence frames and word banks. ●​ Use sentence frames in class discussions, such as: ○​ “I believe _____ is important in the workplace because…” ○​ “One solution might be _____ because…” ●​ Encourage peer feedback using prompts like: “Can you explain why that’s a good solution?” ● Provide visual vocabulary cards to build content knowledge. ●​ Use image-supported flashcards to define traits like "productivity" or "self-initiative." ●​ Display cards with icons for verbal/nonverbal/visual/listening communication modes as reference tools during discussions or group work. ● Mock Interview: Engage the student in more student-teacher conversation or group the student with other advanced learners ready for more challenging dialogue. ● Job Shadow: Students lead discussions or ask questions about the job they are shadowing. ● Real World Problem-Solving Scenario: Have students provide extended responses/more detail s.

Extension

RESOURCES ●​ Mock Interviews- work with your work-based learning facilitator to bring in industry partners to mock interview the students using the district mock Interview questions. ●​ Job Shadow- have students shadow a relative for an hour and complete a reflection assignment that highlights the essential workplace skills required for the job. ●​ STEM Problem-Solving Projects: Have students develop solutions to real-world problems using the problem-solving steps. Suggested real-world problems could include, but are not limited to:

○​ Preventing soil erosion ○​ Growing food in a flood ○​ Overpopulation in a local city ○​ Creating Clean Water ○​ Cleaning up an oil spill ○​ Earthquake-resistant structures ○​ Creating a solar oven ○​ Stopping apple oxidation

* To plan a work-based learning experience for your students, contact your work-based learning facilitator.* VOCABULARY

●​ Responsibility ●​ Dependability