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What's Your Super Skill for the Job?

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Brittany Stech

Tier 1
For Schools

Lesson Plan

Super Skill Spotlight Plan

Students will identify their personal strengths and consider how these 'super skills' can be applied in various workplace and life scenarios. They will begin to articulate their value confidently.

Understanding personal strengths is crucial for building self-confidence, navigating academic and professional paths, and effectively communicating one's capabilities to others. This lesson empowers students to recognize and value their unique contributions.

Audience

8th Grade Class

Time

10 minutes

Approach

Interactive warm-up followed by a guided discussion.

Materials

Unleash Your Inner Professional (slide-deck), My Employability Superpower (warm-up), and Sharing Our Strengths Circle (discussion)

Prep

Review Materials

5 minutes

  • Review the Unleash Your Inner Professional Slide Deck to familiarize yourself with the content.
    - Print or prepare to display the My Employability Superpower Warm-Up activity.
    - Familiarize yourself with the discussion prompts in Sharing Our Strengths Circle Discussion.

Step 1

Introduction & Warm-Up Launch

3 minutes

  • Display the first slide of the Unleash Your Inner Professional Slide Deck.
    - Introduce the concept of 'super skills' for the workplace and life.
    - Distribute or display the My Employability Superpower Warm-Up and give students 2-3 minutes to complete it.

Step 2

Individual Reflection & Pairing

3 minutes

  • Ask students to reflect on their chosen 'super skill' and a brief example of how they use it.
    - Have students briefly share their super skill with a partner.

Step 3

Sharing Our Strengths Circle Discussion

4 minutes

  • Lead a brief whole-class discussion using prompts from the Sharing Our Strengths Circle Discussion.
    - Encourage a few students to share their super skills and examples with the whole class.
    - Emphasize that everyone has valuable skills.
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Slide Deck

Unleash Your Inner Professional

Discovering Your Super Skills for Life and Work

What makes you YOU-nique?

Let's find out!

Welcome students and introduce the topic of personal strengths and how they relate to future success.

What Are 'Super Skills'?

More than just talents!

  • Your unique strengths
  • Positive qualities you bring to tasks
  • Ways you excel in different situations

These are the 'powers' that help you succeed!

Explain what 'super skills' are in the context of employability and life. Emphasize that these are not just job skills, but personal qualities too.

What's Your Super Skill for the Job?

Time to reflect!

  • Think about what you're naturally good at.
  • What do people ask you for help with?
  • How do you solve problems?

Complete the My Employability Superpower Warm-Up!

Transition to the warm-up activity. Explain that students will identify their own super skill.

Sharing Our Strengths Circle

Let's hear from each other!

  • Share your chosen 'super skill' with a partner.
  • Be ready to share with the class (if you're comfortable).
  • Listen respectfully to others' strengths.

See the Sharing Our Strengths Circle Discussion for prompts.

Facilitate the partner share and then the whole-class discussion, using the discussion prompts.

Your Skills, Your Future

Every single one of you has valuable skills.

  • Identifying them builds confidence.
  • Knowing them helps you in school and future careers.
  • You are all professionals in training!

Keep growing your super skills!

Conclude by reiterating the importance of recognizing and articulating personal strengths. Encourage students to continue thinking about their super skills.

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Warm Up

My Employability Superpower Warm-Up

Welcome, future professionals! Everyone has special skills and qualities that make them great at certain things. These are your 'super skills'! They help you succeed in school, at home, and will be super important in any future job.

Instructions:

  1. Think about your strengths: What are you really good at? What do people often ask you for help with? What comes easily to you?
  2. Choose ONE Super Skill: From your list, pick the one strength that you think is your absolute best, your 'superpower'!
  3. Explain it: Why is this your superpower? How do you use it in real life?
  4. Future You: How could this superpower help you in a future job or career?

My Employability Superpower is:







I use this superpower when:












This superpower will help me in a future job or career by:












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Discussion

Sharing Our Strengths Circle Discussion

Now that you've identified your individual 'super skill,' let's share and celebrate our collective strengths as a class!

Discussion Guidelines:

  • Listen respectfully when others are sharing.
  • Everyone's strengths are valuable and unique.
  • You can agree or politely disagree with how someone applies a skill, but always be kind.

Discussion Prompts:

  1. Who would like to share their 'super skill' and how they use it in their daily life? What made you choose that particular skill?


  2. Can anyone think of a classmate's 'super skill' that they admire or have seen in action? What was it and when did you see it?


  3. Why do you think it's important to know your own strengths? How can knowing your strengths help you in school or when thinking about future jobs?


  4. How can recognizing the strengths of others help us work better as a team in class or in a group project?


  5. (Optional) Is there a 'super skill' you'd like to develop more? What steps could you take to grow that skill?
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