Learning A Living: A Blueprint for High Performance - Pt 1
The full SCANS report summarized in this Executive Summary has two parts. Part I is available as a separate document. It has three chapters intended to convey the basic messages of Learning a Living. (36 pages)
This report is available from the Government Printing Office, call (202) 512-1800 or fax (212) 512-2250. The stock number is 029-000-00439-1 and costs $2.50.
What Work Requires of Schools
This is the initial SCANS report. The report defines the five competencies and
three-part foundation that constitute the SCANS know-how. The five competencies are allocating resources, working with others, using information, understanding systems, and using technology. (61 pages)
Single copies are available for $31.50, plus $5 for handling from: National Technical Information Service (NTIS), Sales Desk, Springfield, VA 22151, 1-800-553-6847 or
(703) 605-6000, NTIS number: PB92-146711.
Lo Que Trabajo Necesita de las Escuelas is the Spanish version of What Work Requires of Schools.
Skills and Tasks for Jobs
This SCANS report is designed as a resource for educators or employers to use in
developing curriculum for teaching the SCANS competencies and foundation skills, or for use by people who counsel students in schools or workplaces. The report contains all the descriptive information obtained by SCANS in its job analysis. (535 pages)
The job task information is presented in two ways: First, the tasks for each SCANS competency and foundation skill are listed, in order of their level of difficulty. Then, the tasks are listed by jobs for each of the 50 jobs for which data were collected.
There are over 900 tasks in the volume.
Single copies are available for $52, plus $6 for handling from: National Technical Information Service (NTIS), Operations Division, Springfield, VA 22151, (703) 487-4650, NTIS number: PB92-181379.
Teaching the SCANS Competencies
This report provides expanded definitions of the five SCANS competencies as well as the key concepts involved in incorporating them into the school curriculum. Approximately 10 pages are devoted to each competency. Other resources for integrating the comp
etencies in the teaching of core subjects are identified. In addition, examples of teaching the SCANS competencies or engaging in skill identification efforts are drawn from 27 different schools, apprenticeship, and business-education partnership programs
. Another chapter describes the Indiana PLUS Program. There is also a chapter devoted to teaching SCANS to students with limited English proficiency. Finally, sample assessment items are included. (180 pages)
This report is available from the Government Printing Office, call (202)
512-1800 or fax (212) 512-2250. The stock number is 029-000-00438-2 and costs $11.00.
