Workplace Skills Rationale
Workplace Skills Standard 1
Workplace Skills Standard 2
Workplace Skills Standard 3
Workplace Skills Standard 4
Workplace Skills Standard 5
Workplace Skills Standard 6
Workplace Skills Standard 7
Workplace Skills Standard 8

Arizona Standards

Workplace Skills Standards
(Adopted 3/24/97)

Standard 4

Students work individually and collaboratively within team settings to accomplish objectives.

Students know and are able to do the following:

READINESS (Kindergarten)

  • Interact positively with other students and work cooperatively as a team member on class projects 
  • Demonstrate politeness and adaptability in their relations with other people

FOUNDATIONS (Grades 1-3)

  • Understand and demonstrate the importance of dependability, trustworthiness, productivity and initiative in all areas of life and when interacting with others 
  • Identify the difference between decisions and accomplishments made by individuals and groups 
  • Demonstrate teamwork skills by contributing ideas, suggestions and effort; resolving conflicts; and handling peer pressure 
  • Recognize and participate in leadership roles 

ESSENTIALS (Grades 4-8)

  • Identify ways to build mutual trust and respect and develop an action plan for negotiating concerns 
  • Analyze the difference between individual and group decisions and accomplishments 
  • Exert a high level of effort and perseverance toward goal attainment, as a team member  
  • Assume leadership roles in team settings

PROFICIENCY (Grades 9-12)

  • Demonstrate ability to work with others from diverse backgrounds, including identifying individual interests, aptitudes and skills; teach others new skills 
  • Understand group dynamics 
  • Work toward consensus by exchanging resources and resolving divergent interests, etc.  
  • Monitor individual performance and team effectiveness 
  • Provide constructive feedback 
  • Assume leadership roles in team settings by communicating thoughts and ideas to justify a position, motivating the rest of the group, and effectively delegating tasks and responsibilities 
  • Demonstrate punctuality, trustworthiness, civility and initiative on school projects 
  • Negotiate solutions to identified conflicts by separating people from the problem; focusing on interests, not positions; inventing options for mutual gain; and insisting on the use of objective criteria 
  • Work and communicate with diverse clients, customers and community to satisfy their expectations

DISTINCTION (Honors)

  • Demonstrate teamwork and negotiation skills in innovative and effective ways to accomplish tasks 
  • Pursue difficult and challenging leadership roles