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INTRODUCTION

Welcome to CareerView Construction, Building Trades, & Green Jobs!
This special edition of CareerView: Exploring the identify and describe their interests, likes and dislikes,
World of Work helps prepare high-intermediate and personal characteristics, work styles and values, and
advanced English language learners for a successful how these dimensions relate to different employment
transition to continuing education, vocational training, sectors and jobs. Key objectives of this section are
and employment in the construction, building trades, to enable learners to use the federal O*NET Career
and green jobs sectors. The mission of the course is Exploration Tools at the mynextmove.org website to
to develop students’ career and academic readiness learn about jobs that may interest them, and to talk
skills while they explore their work interests, career about their interests and career exploration with an
opportunities, and pathways for achieving short- employment counselor, career navigator, or other
term and long-term goals. The integrated curriculum instructional support person. This section also orients
promotes the employability and academic readiness students to the five job zones that describe the level of
goals of the English Language Proficiency Standards education, work experience, and job-specific training
(ELPS), the College and Career Readiness Skills (CCRS), required for employment in particular occupations. It
the Workforce Innovation & Opportunity Act (WIOA), also introduces students to the concept of soft skills—the
and the Employability Skills Framework developed by social and communication skills that are emphasized
the U.S. Department of Education. Technology tasks throughout the course and that are important for
throughout the course promote learners’ development success in the 21st-century workplace.
of digital information skills to find, evaluate, organize, Part B (Career and Academic Preparation) consists
create, and present information to prepare for the world of three units: Residential Construction, Commercial
of work as well as continuing education. Construction, and Green Jobs. Each unit begins with a
CareerView Construction, Building Trades, & Green focus on vocabulary development and communication
Jobs can serve as the capstone level of a traditional skills for employability through contextualized
English series, as a stand-alone or supplemental instruction tied to the employment sector. Lesson
high-intermediate or transition/bridge/advanced content is designed to help students answer these seven
vocational English course, and as an introductory career key questions about possible career pathways:
exploration resource for students entering integrated • What kinds of occupations are there?
education and training (IET) programs, occupational • What occupations might interest me?
training, and high school career and technical education • Where would I work?
courses. • Who would I work with?
The four key course objectives are: • What would I do in this occupation?
• What tools, equipment, and technology
• Career exploration
• Effective communication skills for employability and would I use?
success in the workforce • How would I learn things on the job?
• Academic readiness for continuing education Unit content includes key occupational vocabulary
• Development of learners’ digital information skills (names of occupations; worksite locations; job
and use of technology responsibilities; and equipment, tools, and objects)
and key forms of workplace communication (discourse
The Curriculum with supervisors, co-workers, and customers; giving

CareerView Construction, Building Trades, & and receiving on-the-job instructions; and discussing
Green Jobs combines a general essential-skills/soft- job performance). While each unit contains vocabulary
skills approach to employment preparation with specific to the employment sector, the workplace
contextualized instruction that focuses on occupations, communication skills are universal and portable soft
workplaces, and job responsibilities in the construction, skills—functional skills that apply across the full range of
building trades, and green jobs employment sectors. employment. Examples include giving and following
The course book contains three major sections: Self- instructions, offering and asking for assistance,
Exploration; Career and Academic Preparation; and My giving and responding to feedback and correction,
Career Journey. coordinating tasks with co-workers, identifying and
reporting problems, making recommendations, and
Part A (Self-Exploration) focuses on the vocabulary helping customers.
and concepts of career exploration to help learners
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