Success in any sector is dependent upon more than core academic knowledge or technical and occupational skills. Employers need critical thinkers, problem solvers, and leaders to tackle the challenges of today’s workplace. Employees with successful career paths learn to communicate effectively, engage appropriately with others, and be self-reliant. Effective career readiness and employability strategies develop the whole learner and incorporate personal and social capabilities; critical thinking and problem-solving skills; and academic and occupational knowledge. That is what Pearson FlexText is all about.
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Communication Skills
Defining skill areas: reading, writing, speaking, listening, presenting, and visual literacy
Students may not be developing their reading skills because they do not have access to course materials – either by choice or by circumstance. FlexTexts are affordable and accessible. FlexTexts include learning objectives and chapter summaries in combination with concise discussions of key topics to support reading comprehension, and provide individual and group activities that afford students the opportunity to practice their writing and communication skills.
Numeracy Skills
Defining skill areas: understanding and applying mathematical concepts and reasoning, analyzing and using mathematical data, and conceptualizing
This FlexText is designed to be an in-class activity workbook, one that allows faculty to provide instructional support to students as they apply mathematical and statistical analysis across a range of activities.
Critical Thinking & Problem-Solving Skills
Defining skill areas: analyzing, synthesizing, evaluating, decision making, creativity, and innovative thinking
The exercises and activities found in this FlexText are not simply factual, recall, or “skill and drill” activities. They engage students at different levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy to help students develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
Information Management Skills
Defining skill areas: gathering and managing information, selecting and using appropriate tools and technology for a task or project, computer literacy, and internet skills
Not all of the exercises in a FlexText are pen-and-paper activities. Many require students to engage with online information and assets to help them investigate how to analyze and solve an array of problems and challenges.
Interpersonal Skills
Defining skill areas: teamwork, relationship management, conflict resolution, leadership, and networking
FlexText is designed to be brought into class. It can help to facilitate group work and collaborative problem solving, and activities can be implemented in ways that help students to develop their interpersonal skills.
Personal Skills
Defining skill areas: managing self, managing change, being flexible and adaptable, engaging in reflexive practice, and demonstrating personal responsibility
Making the decision to purchase course materials and actively engage with course content is one of the first steps toward demonstrating personal responsibility for success in school. The page layout of a FlexText also encourages note taking and promotes the development of strong study skills.
