Standards - Career & Technical Education

Incorporate safety procedures in handling, operating, and maintaining tools and machinery; handling materials; utilizing personal protective equipment; maintaining a safe work area; and handling hazardous materials and forces.

Demonstrate effective workplace and employability skills, including communication, awareness of diversity, positive work ethic, problem-solving, time management, and teamwork.

Explore the range of careers available in the field and investigate their educational requirements, and demonstrate job-seeking skills including resume-writing and interviewing.

Advocate and practice safe, legal, responsible, and ethical use of information and technology tools specific to the industry pathway.

Participate in a Career and Technical Student Organization (CTSO) to increase knowledge and skills and to enhance leadership and teamwork.

Discuss and demonstrate ways to value diversity.

Describe the business communication process

Explain the differences between nonverbal and verbal communication, giving examples of each type

Identify organizational, physical, physiological, language, cultural, psychological, and technical barriers to communication

Demonstrate effective nonverbal communication skills

Demonstrate effective oral communication skills

Speak using correct pronunciation, enunciation, tone, and cadence

Compare and contrast basic communication, interpersonal communication, organizational communication, and rhetorical communication

Identify regional, international, and cultural differences in oral communication

Plan and deliver an oral presentation based on individual or group research

Identify ways in which audience and situation affect choices of style and tone

Demonstrate proficient listening skills

Follow oral directions by listening attentively, taking accurate notes, and asking questions

Demonstrate business telephone techniques

Demonstrate courtesy and respect for a speaker through attentive listening

Demonstrate correct usage and mechanics in English, including sentence structure, punctuation, and grammar, to communicate clearly and concisely

Compose sentences using the correct forms of commonly misused or misspelled words

Utilize reading strategies to read efficiently, comprehend content, and retain information.

Select and utilize reading methods for a particular situation

Read, follow, and create detailed written directions

Describe the purpose of a particular message, identifying propaganda and biased, literal, inferential, or factual statements

Produce effective written documents

Explain the purpose of each step of the writing process: planning, drafting, revising, editing, publishing

Use the writing process to produce emails and letters appropriate to task, purpose, and audience

Format business documents, including business letters, emails, and reports

Utilize design elements to enhance written communications

Compose an effective business report

Use research and the writing process to plan, draft, revise, edit, and publish a business report

Identify the parts of the business report, including title page, table of contents, abstract/executive summary, body (including introduction and conclusion), references, and appendices

Compare and contrast analytical and informational reports and their appropriate uses