1 / 17

Investing in Your Education

Investing in Your Education. BEOC May 13, 2011 Liza Pappas, WAC City Tech. AGENDA. -The Idea and Reality: Education Investment -The Bigger Economic Picture of Education Attainment -“Writing: A Ticket to Work, or a Ticket Out”: One Research Report on Applying Writing Skills to Employment

hedya
Download Presentation

Investing in Your Education

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Investing in Your Education BEOC May 13, 2011 Liza Pappas, WAC City Tech

  2. AGENDA -The Idea and Reality: Education Investment -The Bigger Economic Picture of Education Attainment -“Writing: A Ticket to Work, or a Ticket Out”: One Research Report on Applying Writing Skills to Employment -The Even Bigger Picture: Education as Freedom

  3. In what ways do you invest in your education? Journal Writing

  4. Economic Picture of Education Education by Income Level U.S. Census Report

  5. How Do Writing Skills Translate into the Marketplace?

  6. “More than half of responding companies say that they frequently or almost always take writing into consideration when hiring salaried employees.” College Board’s Report, of the National Commission on Writing for America’s Families

  7. “Writing: A Ticket to Work or A Ticket Out.”(2005) -How important is writing in the workplace -Is writing an important hiring consideration -What kinds of writing is expected on the job today? -What specific writing skills do employers value?

  8. Report Summary *Turn to Page 3-4 Who does this report survey? What is the response rate?(p.6) Survey sponsor? General Findings?

  9. How Important is Writing in the Workplace? *Turn to Page 7 See Figure 1: Most Professional Employees are Expected to Write

  10. Is Writing an Important Hiring Consideration? *Turn to Page 9 Figure 2: Read Findings

  11. What Kinds of Writing is Expected on the Job Today? *Turn to Page 11 Figure 3: Forms of Writing that are Common in Most Companies

  12. What Kinds of Writing is Expected on the Job Today? Very Important Accuracy 95.2% 1.6% Clarity 74.6% 22.2% Spelling 58.7% 36.5% Conciseness 41.3% 50.8% Scientific 36.5% 33.3% Visual Appeal 11.1% 68.3%

  13. Education as Freedom “Education is an important element in the struggle to help our children and people rediscover their identity and thereby increase self-respect. Education is our passport to the future.” Malcolm X

  14. What does education as freedom mean to you? Journal Writing

  15. The Freedom Riders -Who were the Freedom Riders and what were they fighting for? -What indignities did they withstand? -How would they explain what it means to invest in education? -What would you fight for?

  16. The Value of Writing Well

  17. Comments/Questions

More Related