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Practical Life Skills - Employment & Volunteering: Thriving on the Job - Google Slides Gr. 9-12+ (SPED)

Thriving on the job, a Google Slides life skills lesson for high school: students respond to scenarios about building skills, staying reliable, meeting deadlines, finding a mentor, workplace ethics and handling an unkind coworker.
Grades
Grades 9–12, High School
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Updated Oct 13, 2026

Subject
Life Studies, Career
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What's inside this resource

A comprehensive teaching resource aimed at equipping students with essential skills for successful employment and volunteering. This tool is suitable for public school teachers, homeschoolers, or any educator requiring a Google Slides-friendly resource.

The content is derived from the "Thriving on the Job" chapter of the full lesson plan Practical Life Skills - Employment & Volunteering. The course employs low-vocabulary content and high-interest concepts to ensure comprehension at varying levels, making it mainly useful for special education needs.

Key Features:
  • Aligned with state standards-follows Bloom's Taxonomy
  • Versatile implementation-use in whole class instruction or small group sessions
  • Supports distance learning-share resources remotely without compromising engagement/li>

Flexibility in Teaching

This digital teaching tool provides flexibility in implementation. Great as a whole group instruction or small-group sessions and equally serves as an interactive homework assignment given its Google Slides format.

Engaging Content

The slides include engaging reading passages, comprehension questions,and drag-and-drop activities which students can directly edit on their devices and submit back effortlessly supporting current trends in distance learning.

Sneak Peak into Resource Guide:
  • Included guides: start-up manual & answer key complementing all tasks featured in this GoogleSlides document/li>

In conclusion,this refined yet accessible language combined with practicalities offered by these slides make them indispensable tools enabling educators to vividly impart critical employability skills paving student's way to thrive on their job either virtually or traditionally.<}

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Explain why reliability and meeting deadlines matter at work
  • Describe how a mentor can help an employee
  • Choose an appropriate response to a distracting or unkind coworker

Skills covered

  • Workplace decision-making — choosing responses to scenarios such as leaving a shift early
  • Vocabulary — applying job-success terms to real-life situations

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Core concepts

  • Reliability
  • Deadlines
  • Mentors
  • Workplace ethics
  • Coworker conflict

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