Middle School Mondays A Webinar Series for Middle School Business Teachers

Brought to you by

GA DOE Misty Freeman

and Keri Beth Jones

Keri Beth Jones

• Teacher at Malcom Bridge Middle School in Oconee County

• Teaching Careers and Computer Science to 6th – 8th grade students

• Taught BCS at Dacula Middle School in Gwinnett County for the past 8 years

• EDS in Instructional Technology from UWG, MED in Integrating Technology Into the Classroom from Walden University, and BSEd in Business Ed from UGA

Topics for Today

• Employability Skills

• Workplace Readiness

• Work Ethics

• Soft Skills

• Marketing

• Business Law

• More Technology Resources

Employability Skills • “Skills You Need for a Job”

• http://www.skillsyouneed.com/general/employability-skills.html

• Employability Skills Framework

• http://cte.ed.gov/employabilityskills/index.php/framework/index

• Employability Skills Checklist

• http://www.jobsetc.gc.ca/toolbox/checklists/employability.jsp

Workplace Readiness

• James Madison University – Workplace Readiness Skills and Activities

• http://www.jmu.edu/ttac/WorkplaceReadiness.shtml

• Website has activities for how you can develop each skill at school and at home

Work Ethics

• PowerPoint from GACEC (Georgia Central Educational Center in Newnan, GA) • https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q

=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CC4QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gacec.com%2FStaff%2Fbrowns%2FEducator%2520Links%2FLinks%2520folder%2FWork%2520ethic.ppt&ei=MzJkUveKDYvO8wSntoH4Dg&usg=AFQjCNF_u9ijLp0VvmEdER5YbtoruzMsUA&sig2=SUyhHO2f8O4TQRPLjlaYrg&bvm=bv.55139894,d.eWU

Soft Skills

• “Skills to Pay the Bills” – Department of Labor

• http://www.dol.gov/odep/ topics/youth/softskills/

• Videos – http://www.dol.gov/dol/ media/webcast/20121015-softskills/

• PDF – http://www.dol.gov/odep/ topics/youth/softskills/softskills.pdf

• Top 10 Soft Skills for Job Hunters

• http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2009/01/26/top-10-soft-skills-for-job-hunters/

How are YOU incorporating these skills into your classroom?

• Comment in the chat box and share ideas about how these skills can be incorporated into our MS-BCS classes…

• Someone asked about Class Dojo last week – This would be a great way to reward positive/negative points in your classroom!

Teachem.com • Article from TeachThought

• http://teachthought.com/trends/flipped-classroom-trends/7-must-have-tools-for-the-flipped-classroom/

• http://www.teachem.com/

• My Teachem Classroom Example:

• http://www.teachem.com/mbms-careers

• Student can register/enroll for free!

• You can assign a video for them to watch, put questions into the video, and they can e-mail you their answers!

Teachem for Homework?

• This website may be blocked for you at school but this would be a great site to use for a “flipped classroom” assignment

• Is anyone else as excited about this resource as I am?!?

Marketing

• Lessons from gactaern.org

• 8th Grade Marketing

• http://www.bized.co.uk/educators/16-19/business/marketing/presentation/mix.ppt#10

• Other lesson plans can be found here too – Accounting, Business Law, etc.

• Prezi on The Basics of Marketing

• http://prezi.com/ourxr9qtear4/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy

Business Law

• PowerPoint from Business Law Today and Cengage Learning • https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s

&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CDEQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cabrillo.edu%2F~mhassan%2FBusLawPPT-9thed%2FBusLawPPTCh4-9thed.ppt&ei=JVRjUvSWGITS8wS0-4HQAQ&usg=AFQjCNFKb0KzDeBUESRdDUf87N6raKJ7PA&sig2=18Nv1qxlsgviD2Ie4aokEw&bvm=bv.55139894,d.eWU

• Video from Education Portal

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9gWgfNZLGg

Education Portal • http://education-portal.com

• Create a free account!

Thank you for sharing,

Peggy Etterle!

Keyboarding – More Resources from Peggy! • www.calculatorcat.com/typing_test

• www.careerstep.com/free-typing-test

• www.freetypinggame.net/free-typing- test.asp

• www.goodtyping.com/test.php

• www.powertyping.com

• www.sense-lang.org/typing/tutor/test.php

• www.speedtypingonline.com/typing-test

• www.typingtest.com

• www.typingweb.com

• Davis School District - http://www.davis.k12.ut.us/page/419

Livebinders

• If you haven’t downloaded the LiveBinder IT app yet, please do it!

• http://www.livebinders.com/welcome/bookmark?showsubtab=lbi

• I have created a few new binders so search for me as an author on Livebinders to see what resources I have found lately:

• Business Ed Resources

• Technology Tools

• Edmodo Resources

Wix or Weebly?

• Pros and Cons to both

• It will depend on what your school/school system allows

• Weebly will allow you to work without publishing

• Wix automatically goes live

• If you have any comments to add about these sites, comment in the chat box…

• Has anyone heard of Jux?

What would you like to learn?

• I tried to cover as many of the topics listed in the chat box from our last webinar as I could today!

• If there are other topics you would like to learn more about, please post those in the chat box now so that we can continue to make these webinars what you want them to be.

Thank you for your attendance today!

• Next 2 Session Dates & Instructors:

• November 4th

• Brandy Parker – Blendspace.com

• November 18th

• Rod Hames – Everfi and Personal Finance

• Encourage your MS BCS/Careers friends to join us next time!

• E-mail me if you have questions:

• kjones@oconeeschools.org