The on-line instructional resources provided here are designed for use in schools or training programs where people are being encouraged to appreciate the importance of work ethic, further develop their own work habits and attitudes, and improve employability skills.
Teachers and instructors using these materials will find a link on the lower portion of this page that will assist them in using the lessons in a classroom setting.
Select the lesson you are to work on next:
- Lesson 1 - Why Work Ethic?
A brief lesson about why work ethic is so important in the information age workplace and why it will continue to be important in the future.
- Lesson 2 - What is Work Ethic?
A lesson that defines work ethic and includes information about important worker characteristics that employers are seeking.
- Lesson 3 - Interpersonal Skills
Examines the role of interpersonal skills as an aspect of work ethic, emphasizes its importance in the workplace, and helps learners to develop strategies for improving interpersonal skills.
- Lesson 4 - Initiative
Explains initiative as a part of work ethic, helps learners to evaluate their own initiative, and encourages them to use initiative in appropriate and productive ways.
- Lesson 5 - Being Dependable
Emphasizes the importance of being dependable and helps learners to identify areas for improving personal dependability.
- Lesson 6 - Other Employability Skills
Other employability skills related to work ethic are considered in this lesson along with activities to prepare people for success in the information age workplace.
Student web materials:
Provision has been made here to add pages created by students. These pages should reflect the overall purpose of the web site to encourage the development of good work habits and work ethic. In particular, student designed pages that encourage interpersonal skills, initiative, and being dependable are especially appropriate.
Teachers who would like to submit student work to be added to this section should either send the web materials on floppy disk to Dr. Hill or e-mail them as an attachment, preferrably all together in a zipped file, so that they can be added to this section of the web site. The intent is to provide a public forum for the display of student work. Materials will be reviewed for content, design, and appeal prior to posting them to the web site.
Materials for teachers and instructors:
For teachers who are using these materials in class or instructors using the web site for some other type of education or training, some additional items are provided here to enhance the presentations done in conjunction with use of the web materials. An Instructor's Guide has also been developed and is being pilot tested in selected sites.
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This page last updated on 30-Jan-2006
