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Arizona Standards
Workplace Skills Standards
(Adopted
3/24/97)
Standard
3
Students apply critical and creative
thinking skills to make decisions and solve workplace problems.
Students know
and are able to do the following:
READINESS
(Kindergarten)
- Share in the planning of
classroom activities, specifying the goals and alternatives, and
choosing the best course of action to take
- Identify changing aspects of the
school and community and describe the effects they have on
personal decisions
FOUNDATIONS
(Grades 1-3)
- Address a specific problem by
specifying their goals, devising alternative solutions,
considering the risks of each and choosing the best course of
action
- Identify methods for initiating
change
- Define a variety of creative
thinking skills
- Practice a variety of creative
thinking skills to identify potential solutions to workplace
issues
- Identify the need for data,
obtaining it from existing sources such as the library, on-line
databases or field research
- Describe possible solutions to a
variety of problems
ESSENTIALS
(Grades 4-8)
- Utilize information acquired from
several sources and transfer information learned in one
situation to another
- Devise and implementing a plan of
action by specifying goals and constraints
- Generate alternatives, consider
risks, evaluate and choose solutions
- Monitor progress and make
adjustments to meet stated objectives
- Reflect on the action taken to
determine what has been gained, lost or
achieved
- Identify a need for data, obtain
it and develop a validation instrument for determining its
accuracy
PROFICIENCY
(Grades 9-12)
- Develop a plan to solve complex
problems by gathering, selecting and analyzing data; include
determining the history and politics of the situation
- Identify and allocate available
resources (e.g., time, money, materials, facilities and human)
- Design and justify solutions by
tracking and evaluating the results
- Demonstrate the ability to adapt
new information to changing situations and
requirements
- Combine ideas or information in
new ways, make connections between seemingly unrelated ideas,
and reshape goals in ways that reveal new possibilities to solve
problems
- Develop an inventory
record-keeping system to maintain data and information in
systematic fashion
DISTINCTION
(Honors)
- Apply a continuous improvement
process to an existing business
- Conduct a comprehensive workplace
needs assessment, communicate their findings to the employer,
and develop and defend a set of proposed solutions to address
the needs
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