KTeam Summer InstituteKTeam Summer InstituteJune 6 - 10, 2005June 6 - 10, 2005

Jefferson Community Jefferson Community College Southwest College Southwest

CampusCampus

SCANS ASPECTS OF KTEAM SCANS ASPECTS OF KTEAM

Jim Schmidt w/ Ashland Team Jim Schmidt w/ Ashland Team Paul Drake w/ Jefferson TeamPaul Drake w/ Jefferson Team

SCANSSCANS

Secretary’s Commission on Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary SkillsAchieving Necessary Skills

SCANS SkillsSCANS Skills

• Background

• Workplace Competencies

• Foundation Skills

BackgroundBackground

• (Labor) Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills - 1990

• Defines Critical Skills for high performance

Workplace

• Infused into Academic Lesson Plans

• SCANS 2000 Center at Johns Hopkins University

SCANS Workplace SCANS Workplace CompetenciesCompetencies

• Effective workers can productively use:

• ResourcesThey know how to allocate time, money, materials, space, and staff.

• InformationThey can acquire and evaluate data, organize and maintain files, interpret and communicate, and use computers to process information.

• Interpersonal skillsThey can work on teams, teach others, serve customers, lead, negotiate, and work well with people from culturally diverse backgrounds.

SCANS Workplace SCANS Workplace CompetenciesCompetencies

• SystemsThey understand social, organizational, and technological systems; they can monitor and correct performance; and they can design or improve systems.

• TechnologyThey can select equipment and tools, apply technology to specific tasks, and maintain and troubleshoot equipment

SCANS Foundation SkillsSCANS Foundation Skills

Competent workers in the high-performance workplace need:

• Basic SkillsReading, writing, arithmetic and mathematics, speaking and listening

• Thinking SkillsThe ability to learn, to reason, to think creatively, to make decisions, and to solve problems.

• Personal QualitiesIndividual responsibility, self-esteem and self-management, sociability, and integrity.

Developmental Math and EnglishDevelopmental Math and English

• Basic Skills

• Critical Thinking

• Reasoning

Computer Applications Computer Applications (ET 107 or CIS 100)(ET 107 or CIS 100)

• Windows

• File management

• Email (KCTCS)

• Word

• Excel

• Power Point

Physics LabsPhysics Labs

• Topics arranged by math difficulty

• Teamwork

• Reporting

• Measurement

• Analysis

Ice CreamIce Cream

• Group project

• Students do research to answer:

• Why does the addition of salt to the ice cause the ice cream mixture to freeze?

ProjectProject

ACCELERATION OF GRAVITYACCELERATION OF GRAVITY

The objectives of this experiment are to obtain an experimental value for the acceleration of gravity and to demonstrate that acceleration is independent of mass.

Scans ChecklistScans Checklist

• √ Basic SkillsReading, writing, arithmetic and mathematics, speaking and listening

• √ Thinking SkillsThe ability to learn, to reason, to think creatively, to make decisions, and to solve problems.

• √ Personal QualitiesIndividual responsibility, self-esteem and self-management, sociability, and integrity.

SCANS ChecklistSCANS ChecklistEffective workers can productively

use:• √ Resources

They know how to allocate time, money, materials, space, and staff.

• √ InformationThey can acquire and evaluate data, organize and maintain files, interpret and communicate, and use computers to process information.

• √ Interpersonal skillsThey can work on teams, teach others, serve customers, lead, negotiate, and work well with people from culturally diverse backgrounds.

SCANS ChecklistSCANS Checklist

• √ SystemsThey understand social, organizational, and technological systems; they can monitor and correct performance; and they can design or improve systems.

• √ TechnologyThey can select equipment and tools, apply technology to specific tasks, and maintain and troubleshoot equipment.

Academic Success – 100 GE – Academic Success – 100 GE – Dr. Barbara WaltersDr. Barbara Walters

• SCANS-related Syllabus Content

• Examples

• Work-Keys

• Kentucky Employability Certificate

Applied Physics – 171 PH Lab –

Judy Chabot

Physics Lab Project Scoring Rubric

Writing – 90,91,92 ENC –

Pam Duelley

Assignment Example

Introduction to Computers – 100 CIS –

David Childress

SCANS Syllabus Summary

Math – 55MT, 65MT, and 122MT –

Kay Thompson

Time Management Exercise

Writing on Math Usefulness

Support from the NSF KTeam Grant, NSF SCANS grant, and a Marathon Ashland Petroleum gift are gratefully acknowledged.