Core Communication Skills satisfies the graduation requirement of completing a 10th grade communications course. We work on communicating professionally and maturely through job seeking skills, career researching, and fine-tuning self expression via new media technology. Students also hone their reading strategies in anticipation of PSSAs and SATs next year.
Core Comm. also helps students satisfy a majority of their EASD- and Pennsylvania Department of Education-required graduation project. It includes the following major projects/activities.
- Mock interview portfolio: resume, cover letter, references, job application
- Mock interview
- Career shadow
- Career shadow portfolio
- Career shadow presentation
- Digital story
Information and assignment directions are posted daily on edmodo.com. Parents can follow along on their child’s class’s public page. Here are the links.
1A: http://www.edmodo.com/public/a1fall11cc/group_id/422495
2A: http://www.edmodo.com/public/a2fall11cc/group_id/422504
4A: http://www.edmodo.com/public/a4fall11cc/group_id/422516
1B: http://www.edmodo.com/public/b1fall11cc/group_id/422520
3B: http://www.edmodo.com/public/b3fall11cc/group_id/422537
4B: http://www.edmodo.com/public/b4fall11cc/group_id/422543
Parents can also log-in to edmodo using a parent code. I have these codes available, at parents’ request.
Here are the dates for the major activities this semester.
10/4 Mock Interview
10/10-10/14 “Shadow Week”
12/1 Career Shadow Project Presentation Day
Core Communication Skills satisfies the graduation requirement of completing a 10th grade communications course. We work on communicating professionally and maturely through job seeking skills, career researching, and fine-tuning self expression via new media technology.
Core Comm. also helps students satisfy a majority of their EASD- and Pennsylvania Department of Education-required graduation project.
Information and assignment directions are posted daily on edmodo.com. Parents can follow along on their child’s class’s public page. Here are the links.
1A: http://www.edmodo.com/public/ccspring1a/group_id/179375
2A: http://www.edmodo.com/public/ccspring2a/group_id/179377
3A: http://www.edmodo.com/public/ccspring3a/group_id/179379
1B: http://www.edmodo.com/public/ccspring1b/group_id/179376
3B: http://www.edmodo.com/public/ccspring3b/group_id/179381
4B: http://www.edmodo.com/public/ccspring4b/group_id/179383
Here are the dates for the major activities this semester.
3/1 Mock Interview
3/14-3/18 “Shadow Week”
5/6 Career Shadow Project Presentation Day
Don’t call your digital visual aid “finished” until you’ve had a look at Mr. Adams’s PowerPoint Pet Peeves.
Welcome to room 1630, home of Core Communications.
Tonight we will discuss the following.
- Course Units/Requirements
- Job Seeking Skills
- Portfolio
- Mock Interview 10/8
- Career Research
- Evolving job market
- Research assignment
- Career shadow
- Graduation project
- Presentation Skills
- Digital Stories
- Digital visual aids
- Speech organization and delivery
- Literacy Skills/Test Preparation
- Novel and passage-based readings
- Comprehension skills
- SAT/PSSA vocabulary
- Course Rules
- Classroom rules
- Absenteeism policy
- Assignment policy
- Technology Tools We Use
- Computer cart
- adamswriting.com/teaching
- edmodo.com
- careercruising.com
- easybib.com
- iMovie and presentation software
- elgg (blogs)
Check out the resources page to see links to delicious.com/adamswriting, by tag. These are links that I have identified as being helpful resources, and I’m always adding more. Enjoy!