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Youth Engagement Update
November 2015
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This month's feature story is written by Frank and Kimberlee Spillers, a husband/wife team based in Iowa whose work focuses on rebuilding the population in rural America and growing an engaged workforce. Their approach, The Be WUCA! Way, engages positive change in schools, businesses and communities.
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What the World of Work Wants
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Do you have or know students struggling in school? Do they have a job? Here are some tips to share with them that should improve the situation, give them (and you) hope and confidence that they have power to influence their future.
For good.
Employers consistently report dissatisfaction with many job candidates they see, particularly those for entry-level positions. Teachers often have the same laments in their classroom settings. Most habits and attitudes that drive employers and instructors crazy are formed by the student from the time they step foot at the school door in kindergarten. Those habits actually start sooner, but that's another blog.
The connection between classroom learning and workplace skills is critical because habits developed throughout school transfer to careers. What the World of Work Wants is a lesson plan that attaches classroom habits and learning to workplace goals by measuring student performance with employer standards.
- Student attendance & punctuality = Employers want employees to show up on time, ready to work.
- Grades = Employers will reward "A" quality work with promotions and raises. An employee may keep their job doing "C" work, but only maintain their current position. Less than "C" work could cost an employee their job.
- Standardized tests = Employers will measure performance through evaluations at least once, if not twice, per year.
- Participation in extracurricular activities = Employers want employees to know how to "play well" with others. It's imperative that employees know how to operate with a team structure.
When a student understands how their schoolwork is relevant to what is required in the workplace, they can adjust their attitude and actions. This revelation of control and destiny leads to personal satisfaction, happiness, better grades, environment, attitude, and a clearer vision of the future they wish to create for themselves.
When students in a rural Iowa school implemented lessons learned from What the World of
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Work Wants through a process called Coaching in the Classroom, the high-school population at-risk for not graduating on time with their class plummeted from 41% to 12% in three years. For more information about The Be WUCA! Way, Coaching in the Classroom or What the World of Work Wants, click the logo on the right to visit their website or contact Kimberlee Spillers at kim@ghorizons.com.
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