Virginia SOL CE.14.b
The Standard
identifying the attitudes and behaviors that strengthen individual work ethic and promote career success
Virginia Standards of Learning for History and Social Science · The student will apply history and social science skills to explain career opportunities and understand the fundamentals of personal finance by
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students connect punctuality, honesty, persistence, initiative, and cooperation to workplace results. They explain how choices affect trust, job performance, and opportunities for added responsibility or promotion.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students can examine a workplace scenario, identify the helpful or harmful behavior, and predict a likely consequence. They can suggest a specific better choice and explain why it would help.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think working long hours always means having a strong work ethic. They may assume talent or good grades can replace dependability, honesty, and teamwork. Some confuse taking initiative with ignoring directions.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Jordan misses a deadline and blames a coworker. Name two work habits Jordan should improve, and explain one likely workplace consequence.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs workplace scenario cards to sort under reliable, unreliable, and unclear, then have them rewrite one weak choice.
Ask students to write: Which matters more at work, talent or dependability, and what evidence supports your view?
Play Consequence Match, where teams pair behavior cards, such as arriving late, with likely effects on coworkers, customers, and supervisors.
Have students mark work habits named in a local job posting, then give one school example that demonstrates each habit.
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Related Standards
- S.2.h
practicing civility, respect, hard work, honesty, trustworthiness, and responsible citizenship skills; and
- S.3.h
practicing civility, respect, hard work, honesty, trustworthiness, and responsible citizenship skills; and
- S.VS.h
practicing civility, respect, hard work, honesty, trustworthiness, and responsible citizenship skills; and
- CE.14.a
identifying the talents, interests, and aspirations that can influence career choice;
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