This curriculum guide, from National College Transition Network and SABES (System for Adult Basic Education Support), was created to provide adult education instructors tools and training to help students think about and plan for their life and career beyond the classroom. The guide includes classroom-ready resources, flexible lesson plans, handouts, and online resources to guide students through the career awareness and planning process.

Since the guide is comprised of individual lessons organized into units, Ohio Aspire administrators and program staff are encouraged to look at lesson titles to determine which lessons best meet the needs of students in their program.

This report, from SRI Education and the Joyce Foundation, emphasizes what it identifies as personal success skills – the Joyce Foundation’s chosen term to describe a multitude of elements (e.g., basic job readiness, self-directed learning, self-management, personal responsibility, effective communication, career management, and everyday problem solving) and the competencies needed to lay the foundation for personal success and navigate the working world.

Areas of particular interest to Ohio Aspire administrators and program staff include Chapter 5: Recommendations which sum up the principles of how adults learn and the approaches instructors can use to implement those principles with their students.

This curriculum guide, from National College Transition Network and SABES (System for Adult Basic Education Support), was created to provide adult education instructors tools and training to help students think about and plan for their life and career beyond the classroom. The guide includes classroom-ready resources, flexible lesson plans, handouts, and online resources to guide students through the career awareness and planning process.

Since the guide is comprised of individual lessons organized into units, Ohio Aspire administrators and program staff are encouraged to look at lesson titles to determine which lessons best meet the needs of students in their program.

This report, from SRI Education and the Joyce Foundation, emphasizes what it identifies as personal success skills – the Joyce Foundation’s chosen term to describe a multitude of elements (e.g., basic job readiness, self-directed learning, self-management, personal responsibility, effective communication, career management, and everyday problem solving) and the competencies needed to lay the foundation for personal success and navigate the working world.

Areas of particular interest to Ohio Aspire administrators and program staff include Chapter 5: Recommendations which sum up the principles of how adults learn and the approaches instructors can use to implement those principles with their students.

This interactive tool, from CareerOneStop, helps students and instructors inventory and list their workplace skills and activities as well as match those skills to career options.

Areas of particular interest to Ohio Aspire instructors and program staff include

• Basic Skills (e.g., active listening, math, speaking, science, reading comprehension),
• Social Skills (e.g., negotiation, persuasion, service orientation),
• Technical Skills (e.g., equipment maintenance, technology design, troubleshooting), and
• Resource Management Skills (e.g., time management, financial and material resource management).