1. KTeam Summer Institute June 6 - 10, 2005 Jefferson Community College Southwest Campus

2. SCANS ASPECTS OF KTEAM Jim Schmidt w/ Ashland Team Paul Drake w/ Jefferson Team

3. SCANS Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills

4. SCANS Skills Background Workplace Competencies Foundation Skills

5. Background (Labor) Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills - 1990 Defines Critical Skills for high performance Workplace Infused into Academic Lesson Plans SCANS 2000 Center at Johns Hopkins University

6. SCANS Workplace Competencies Effective workers can productively use: Resources They know how to allocate time, money, materials, space, and staff. Information They can acquire and evaluate data, organize and maintain files, interpret and communicate, and use computers to process information. Interpersonal skills They can work on teams, teach others, serve customers, lead, negotiate, and work well with people from culturally diverse backgrounds.

7. SCANS Workplace Competencies Systems They understand social, organizational, and technological systems; they can monitor and correct performance; and they can design or improve systems. Technology They can select equipment and tools, apply technology to specific tasks, and maintain and troubleshoot equipment

8. SCANS Foundation Skills Competent workers in the high-performance workplace need: Basic Skills Reading, writing, arithmetic and mathematics, speaking and listening Thinking Skills The ability to learn, to reason, to think creatively, to make decisions, and to solve problems. Personal Qualities Individual responsibility, self-esteem and self- management, sociability, and integrity.

9. Developmental Math and English Basic Skills Critical Thinking Reasoning

10. Computer Applications (ET 107 or CIS 100) Windows File management Email (KCTCS) Word Excel Power Point

11. Physics Labs Topics arranged by math difficulty Teamwork Reporting Measurement Analysis

12. Ice Cream Group project Students do research to answer: Why does the addition of salt to the ice cause the ice cream mixture to freeze? Project

13. ACCELERATION OF GRAVITY The objectives of this experiment are to obtain an experimental value for the acceleration of gravity and to demonstrate that acceleration is independent of mass.

14. Scans Checklist √ Basic Skills Reading, writing, arithmetic and mathematics, speaking and listening √ Thinking Skills The ability to learn, to reason, to think creatively, to make decisions, and to solve problems. √ Personal Qualities Individual responsibility, self-esteem and self- management, sociability, and integrity.

15. SCANS Checklist Effective workers can productively use: √ Resources They know how to allocate time, money, materials, space, and staff. √ Information They can acquire and evaluate data, organize and maintain files, interpret and communicate, and use computers to process information. √ Interpersonal skills They can work on teams, teach others, serve customers, lead, negotiate, and work well with people from culturally diverse backgrounds.

16. SCANS Checklist √ Systems They understand social, organizational, and technological systems; they can monitor and correct performance; and they can design or improve systems. √ Technology They can select equipment and tools, apply technology to specific tasks, and maintain and troubleshoot equipment.

17. Academic Success – 100 GE – Dr. Barbara Walters SCANS-related Syllabus Content Examples Work-Keys Kentucky Employability Certificate

18. Applied Physics – 171 PH Lab – Judy Chabot Physics Lab Project Scoring Rubric

19. Writing – 90,91,92 ENC – Pam Duelley Assignment Example

20. Introduction to Computers – 100 CIS – David Childress SCANS Syllabus Summary

21. Math – 55MT, 65MT, and 122MT – Kay Thompson Time Management Exercise Writing on Math Usefulness

22. Support from the NSF KTeam Grant, NSF SCANS grant, and a Marathon Ashland Petroleum gift are gratefully acknowledged.