A Better Classroom for Global Education

BASIC SKILLS
ALL Employers Want:

Knowing HOW TO LEARN

1. Integration Of Knowledge and Skills
2. Continuous Acquisition of Knowledge and Skills
3. Application of Knowledge and Skills for Personal Development and Advancement

Six Skill Acquisition Groups

1. 3 R’s Reading, Writing, Math
2. Communication Skills of Oral, (i.e., listening especially)
3. Creative Thinking and Problem Solving
4. Ongoing Development of Self- Esteem Including
   Goals and Achievements
5. Interpersonal Skills, Including Negotiation, Teamwork, Solution-based Results
6. Organizational Effectiveness and Leadership

LITERACY DEVELOPMENT:

Workplace Literacy

1. Education plan for employees
2. Address and provide classes at needed levels, i.e.
   Adult Basic Education (ABE)
   General Education Diploma (GED)
   English as Second Language (ESL)
3. Assess first, to determine needs and levels

Workplace Literacy

1. Integrate knowledge and skills
2. Incorporate new skills in job tasks
3. Tie new skills to promotion
4. Recognizing SECONDARY skill acquisition, such as computer literacy learned during ESL class
   

BLUEPRINT
for ALL Successful Training:

• Improve Job Performance
• Improve Productivity and/or Marketing Success
• Follow Correlated Steps of:

1. Recognizing job issue(s) and corporate problems in marketing and/or product concern that are BARRIERS
2. Job issue needs assessments generally indicate a need to revise the older job descriptions and realign with current task functionality
3. Task Analysis & Efficiency Studies
4. Productivity data-driven analysis with hard data/stats
5. Market analysis with data-driven hard data/stats
6. Compare research data to current location data – identify areas of interest
7. Use differences in data to recognize weak job, productivity and/or market performance
   Explain and teach information results objectively to all levels, union to management, and build support for areas of needed change (based on hard data charts, graphs)

Present Action Plan

1. Group brainstorming/think- tank activity to set goals, actions, timeline and responsibilities for change in job descriptions/productivity/marketing
2. Work for consensus

• Design Delivery Model and Materials for Training Components
• Implement Changes with Monitoring
• Evaluate Results in Regular Segments