Syllabus for 1 Credit Option

Class Name - 21st Century Employment Success Factors

[Various Class Locations as selected by student during registration]

[Class Meeting time(s) - 3^rd Tuesday from 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 during scheduled months]

Instructor: [Gary Scofield] [633 17th Street, 7th Floor]

Office Phone 303-318-8937 - Cell Phone 720-413-8378 

Office Hours: [7:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. by appointment]

Grading: Graduate Credit ED590 Letter Grade 

I. Rationale:

We have a real emergency today in a lack of home-grown talent exiting the Pre-K-16 education pipeline. Increasing deficiencies exist between the supply and demand of employable talent exiting the educational system in science, technology, engineering and math skills. Also there is a noticeable lack of basic soft skills needed to be successful in the modern workforce. This course promotes awareness of current and projected skills needed by the students entering the 21^st century workforce.

II. Course Aims and Objectives:

Aims

Students participating in this course will hear clear and concise messages from the leaders in business. These messages will provide the student with the understanding of the needed skills that youth within the educational pipeline will be required to possess to be considered a top candidate for a position in various industries. Teachers and counselors, within the educational pipeline, no matter what their specialty, can assist the youth of today more effectively by understanding the talents they need to succeed in the economy and perform at high levels.

Specific Learning Objectives:

By the end of this course, students will:

Be able to promote science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) to the P-16 students they teach, and provide reasons the P-16 student should gain these skills.

• Be able to converse with parents to assist them in gaining insight into the factors that will enable success for their children in the 21^st century economy.
• Form relationships with business leaders that will assist in strengthening the content of lesson plans.
• Be able to understand the projected future of the knowledge-based economy of the business world.
• Be able to describe why it is necessary for youth to understand important STEM related subjects regardless of the industry, from agriculture, manufacturing, game developer to bio-technology.
• Be able to describe to P-16 students items employers of today research about their potential employee including student's school attendance, My Space accounts and other character describing social skills that either make them or break them as a candidate for employment.
• Students will be required to complete a written report that provides insight into the common threads detailed by business leaders of various industries that comprise the highest caliber employee.

III. Format and Procedures:

This course is comprised of participation and completion of no less than 4 separate Tuesday Tours as offered by the Business and Education Talent Readiness Project (BETR). http://www.betrproject.org/

• Students may register to attend tours from a list of businesses that are located in Colorado.
• One final written assignment is required to describe gained insight into the common threads detailed by business leaders of various industries that comprise the highest caliber employee.

IV. Course Requirements:

1. Class attendance and participation policy: Student must attend at least 4 scheduled Tuesday Tours.

2. Course readings:

(a) None

3. Assignments based on the number of credits for which the learner is enrolled:

One credit - What are the minimum requirements if the student chooses to take the course for credit?

(1) Attend 4 separate Tuesday Tours

(2) Complete 1 two-page written assignment.

V. Grading Procedures:

Letter Grade for ED590

VI. Tentative Course Schedule [based on a graduate level course that meets once a month over a six month period]:

Please visit the Business and Education Talent Readiness Project (BETR) Website for scheduling details. http://www.betrproject.org/.