College and Career

College and Career Readiness

21st Century Skills

What is the purpose of the college and career ready practices?

​College and career ready practices help students to learn about navigating career opportunities, networking (meeting people), teamwork, communication, effective work habits, and other important competencies that employers are looking for in job-ready graduates.

What makes you college and career ready?

• Being prepared for postsecondary education or training that can result in better job opportunities.

• Acquiring and developing learning, literacy and life skills to be implemented academically and in any professional setting.

Multiple Choice

College and Career ready means...

• To know the places were college are located.

• The popular careers in the market.

• The ability to succeed in entry-level general-education coursework.

• To study and work as a skill.

• 21st Century Skills are considered the most important skills to succeed in today's workplace.

• Students will need to develop these skills in the classroom so they can have great careers in the future!

Multiple Choice

Learning, Literacy, and Life are part of the 21st century skills.

• True

• False

Literacy Skills; Research

• Research skills refer to an individual’s ability to find and evaluate useful information related to a specific topic.

• These skills include performing investigations and using critical analysis, using available resources to include the internet.

• Research skills are valued by employers in various industries and are beneficial to employees in all types of positions.

Multiple Choice

Research Skills includes, but is not limited to...

• Access technology safely

• Access technology effectively

• Access technology responsible

• All answer are correct

Key Criteria

How to distinguish reliable web-based resources?

Know the domain:

Look at the three letters at the end of the site's domain name, such as “edu” (educational),

“gov” (government),

“org” (nonprofit), and “com” (commercial).

​*Make sure you research about the website or page before sharing your personal information.

Multiple Choice

Choose the reliable web-site to search jobs?

• fastjobs.yes

• ea$ymoney.com

• walmertjobs.com

• indeed.com

Exploring Web-Page domains

Enhancing Research Skills Activity!

Explore and search the following information in relation to Literacy Skills, Research.

• Identify the domain for web-sites.