Unit 5: Your Time

Workplace Skills

• Understands consequences of lateness
• Clarifies job expectations
• Discusses payment, hours, and overtime pay

Life Skills

• Discusses payment
• Computes pay
• Understands importance of punctuality
• Reschedules events

Civics Concepts

• Fair Labor Standards Act: minimum wage and entitlement to overtime pay
• Company time vs. personal time

Social Language

How to:

• reschedule events
• provide reasons
• interrupt politely
• ask for repetition
• ask for permission
• clarify expectations

Grammar

• Verbs followed by infinitives
• Verbs followed by objects and infinitives

SCANS Competencies

• Resources: Knows how to allocate time
• Information: Interprets and communicates information
• Systems: Understands organizational systems

SCANS Foundation Skills

Listening

Understands:

• discussions of wages and hours
• jobs and duties
• employer's instructions

Speaking

• Discusses payment and hours, hours, overtime pay
• Advises co-workers
• Relates a personal experience

Reading

Reads:

• employment policies and procedures
• about minimum wage
• job postings
• advice about punctuality at work

Writing

• Charts occupations of classmates
• Completes paragraphs
• Writes a composition

Thinking

• Compares and contrasts payment options
• Understands consequences

Personal Qualities

• Demonstrates individual responsibility as it relates to punctuality
• Demonstrates self-management
• Demonstrates sociability