Personal and Workplace Success Skills Library
The Personal and Workplace Success Skills Library is a curated collection of resources to guide the integration of personal and workplace success skills into curriculum and instruction, advising and coaching, assessment, and program design.
The Personal and Workplace Success Skills Library is a collection of resources to guide the integration of personal and workplace success skills into curriculum and instruction, advising and coaching, assessment, and program design. These resources were selected for adult education, higher education, workforce development, and career and technical education programs serving adult and older youth learners and workers, including English language learners. The Personal and Workplace Success Skills Library library was developed and is maintained by the National College Transition Network (NCTN) at World Education, Inc., with a grant from ECMC Foundation.
Adult educators can use the skills library to guide the integration of personal and workplace success skills into curriculum and instruction, advising and coaching, assessment, and program design. The resources in the library focus on a broad spectrum of uses and are adaptable in many instances. It includes curriculum information in some instances and program design framework in others. There are resources that focus on integrating personal and workplace skills into curriculum and instruction, advising and coaching, assessment as mentioned above, and program design. Each resource is reviewed and notes where it is from, what the purpose of the resource is, and what the resource includes, for example, what skills are addressed in the resource, its framework, platforms used, whether it is curricula or a teacher guide and key highlights as well; there is enough information for the educator to determine from the review whether to investigate the resource further. The review also makes note whether the resource is free or fee-based.
The site includes a page on Teaching the Skills which includes an overview of the mission behind the library, suggestions for using the resources, and suggestions for directly teaching skills. The suggestions for teaching the skills can be adapted to any of the target uses of the resources: curriculum and instruction, advising and coaching, assessment, and program design.
The searchable format is most useful, allowing users to search for guiding materials under a variety of parameters. For example, perhaps a user is looking for mobile resources. This is an applicable filter in the skills search tool. With so many different types of resources depending on user application, there are uses for program leaders and instructors alike.
No prior training required.
The Personal and Workplace Success Skills Library's collection of proven resources for program leadership and instructors alike to enhance their employability skills curriculum provides a user-friendly, searchable platform to locate programmatic frameworks and student materials. From locating research-based practices to student badging and credentialing materials, the library contains multiple resources for engaging further exploration.
I find this library very useful, especially given that I integrate personal and workplace success skills into all aspects of my curricula. I appreciate that it is organized simply and clearly. The search feature allows you to search both broadly or narrowly for resources. The resources cover all the necessary contexts in adult ed: curriculum and instruction, advising and coaching, assessment, and program design, and so this allows for "one stop shopping" when searching for materials related to workplace education generally.
The reviews of each resource make the library very user-friendly because the educator can get a snapshot of a resource in order to know if it's appropriate or not. In Teaching the Skills, the suggestions for using both the resources and for teaching the skills is very helpful, especially because these sections are brief and to the point. The suggestions for teaching the skills can be adapted to any of the target uses of the resources: curriculum and instruction, advising and coaching, assessment, and program design.
The Voices from the Field section provides case studies that practitioners can read to get ideas and examples of how to use some of the resources in the library, and this illustration is very helpful.
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