Necessary Skills Now is a curriculum to enhance the skills of today's production workers and the future workforce. The six modules place students at the center of the learning process, in a learning environment in which they can construct meaning to the topics based on life and work experiences. The six chapter titles include:
 

Business
You and Your Organization

Participants Explore:

• Accessing and processing information
• Processing and testing information
• Testing and recording information
• Organizing information
• Evaluating information
   

Participants Explore:

• You and your organization
• Working in a system
• You make the difference
   

Participants learn to:

• Identify personal values
• Explore professional ethics
• Translate values and ethics into work behaviors
  
  

Participants work at:

• Establishing cross-functional teams
• Identifying and containing problems
• Selecting and implementing corrective actions
• Preventing recurrence
  
  

Participants will:

• Participate in a simulated manufacturing process
• Address customers' needs
• Analyze quality
  
  

Participants Explore:

• Accessing and processing information
• Processing and testing information
• Testing and recording information
• Organizing information
• Evaluating information
  
  

Each chapter in the Facilitator's Guide contains the following components:

• An overview of the module
• Philosophy on contextual learning
• Your role as a facilitator
• About this module
• Accessment
• Overview map
• Introduction to the lesson
• The lessons you will teach

Facilitator's Guide is a compilation of all
six modules of the participant guides
and additional information to assist you
in facilitating the learning process of the participants.

Necessary Skills Now was developed in association with NCATC. Member colleges receive special pricing reflected below.

For member orders, please call 800-231-3015 x428 for discounted pricing.