Connect the Dots: How School Skills Become Work Skills

 Grades 5-9 / 16 Minutes / Handouts
Resource Books / Tests

What teacher hasn’t heard students say:  “What a waste of time!  After we get out of school we’ll never need to know this stuff!”

Connect the Dots addresses that complaint by clearly demonstrating how today’s school assignments will directly apply to ultimate job performance.  Realistic middle school scenarios correlate everyday schoolwork with on-the-job requirements such as self-management skills, critical thinking, communication, reading, writing, math and computer literacy.