Your Life Skills, Transition, Vocational and Work Education students will love the challenge of using the problem solving task cards for workplace problems to think, talk, plan and find solutions. Students choose a workplace problem task card from the set of 36 cards, then use the action plans to help them solve each problem.
Employability skills (soft skills) help young people to succeed in a workplace. They are vital for helping solve the problems which often arise at work, particularly when a young person is first starting out and learning what it really means to be a worker.
What's inside?
- 2 action plans to allow you to differentiate and cater to individual needs
- 36 high interest, age appropriate task cards in full color to print and share
What are the employability skills?
Key employability skills include:
- communication
- teamwork
- digital literacy
- problem solving
- awareness of diversity
- personal organization
- innovation
- time management
These workplace problem solving task cards use realistic situations - just like those faced by young people every day in a workplace. They challenge learners to think about possible solutions and discuss options before sharing their ideas with others in the class or group.
How to use the workplace problems task cards:
Give pairs of students a copy of the task cards and have them discuss and plan how they would solve each problem using employability skills. Encourage 'if, then' thinking strategies as well as considering more than one alternative to solve the problems. Ask students if they can think of more than one solution to each problem and share their ideas with another pair or group.
Extend the learning:
Introduce workplace problem solving with the engaging workplace problem solving slideshow to make a fun, action packed lesson sequence.
Have students record their own learning by completing the problem solving page in their employability skills passport.
Learn more with the employability skills information pack for students, with lots of easy reading content and activities to complete.