Tavien Work Keys Lesson

Tavien Work Keys Lesson

What do you need to do to pass?

A score of a three!

you can go up from there and get a 4 or a 5 if you feel like over achieving!

Here's a sample of a score of a 1

• Prompt: At your office, employees are allowed to skip their morning and/or afternoon breaks to take longer lunch breaks. However, the personnel manager says that employees have been taking too much time on their lunch breaks as a result of this policy. She wants to require all employees to take their morning and afternoon breaks and the standard lunch break. Write a letter to the personnel manager explaining whether or not you are in favor of this proposal and why.

  Sample 1:

  I dont think its right for you to take are choice to not use our morning and afternoon breaks to have a longer lunch break! If we have a choice. I think you should writ up people that come back late if ther 3 times or more that have to work late or come in earlie. I hope you take in to thouht! We want you to do whats best. You know whats best. Yes.

  
  

Why do you think that this student only scored a 1?

• Length!

• Clarity

• Didn't fully respond to the prompt

Multiple Choice

What score do you need to pass the work keys test?

• 1

• 3

Who are you writing to?

At your office, employees are allowed to skip their morning and/or afternoon breaks to take longer lunch breaks. However, the personnel manager says that employees have been taking too much time on their lunch breaks as a result of this policy. She wants to require all employees to take their morning and afternoon breaks and the standard lunch break. Write a letter to the personnel manager explaining whether or not you are in favor of this proposal and why.

Who do you need to consider when writing to a company?

1.) Employees (You)

2.) The company as a whole (Big Picture)

3.) Your customers (who you are selling to)

You can use this impact to shape your body paragraphs!

Remember that you are playing pretend (Which sometimes is the most frustrating part. But you have to put yourself into those roles

Multiple Choice

You need to include all of these audiences or stakeholders except:

• Boss

• Employees

• Company

• families

Why would you write to your company?

• unfair working conditions

• you have spoken to your boss about a current company issue and he agreed with you, and asked you to communicate with the company as a whole

• You disagree with you boss about something.

What type of structure does the work keys letter need to contain?

• Introduction: Give the reader context. Why are you writing to them? How do you know them? How will this affect the three different people that you spoke about (employees, boss, company)

• Body paragraphs; talk about how the decision that you disagree with or agree with will effect the three stakeholders (employee, boss, company)

• Conclusion: wrap it up what do you agree or disagree with in the prompt. What reasons did you give for agreeing or disagreeing with the prompt? How will this effect everyone you have talked about?

Using the Races acronym and responding to work keys prompts

• Sample Prompt: At your office, employees are allowed to skip their morning and/or afternoon breaks to take longer lunch breaks. However, the personnel manager says that employees have been taking too much time on their lunch breaks as a result of this policy. She wants to require all employees to take their morning and afternoon breaks and the standard lunch break. Write a letter to the personnel manager explaining whether or not you are in favor of this proposal and why.