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 7

Students demonstrate technological literacy for productivity in the workplace.

Students know and are able to do the following:

READINESS (Kindergarten)

  • Operate developmentally appropriate technologies (e.g., a telephone, VCR)

FOUNDATIONS (Grades 1-3)

  • Identify the many uses of technology
  • Use technology to access information, demonstrating basic computer skills (e.g., pull-down menus, icons, passwords, key word searches)

ESSENTIALS (Grades 4-8)

  • Demonstrate basic computer operation skills in a variety of applications to organize information 
  • Use technology to organize information resources such as library and interlibrary catalog databases

PROFICIENCY (Grades 9-12)

  • Select and use appropriate technology to organize, send and receive information 
  • Analyze the impact of technological changes on tasks, people and society

DISTINCTION (Honors)

  • Demonstrate computer operation skills such as computer-aided drafting and computer-integrated manufacturing with other technologies in a variety of applications within a workplace setting  
  • Design technologies which go beyond any existing technology 
  • Adapt technology use to expand academic and personal growth 
  • Identify or solve problems with computers and other technologies