Attached is a rubric taken from the Virginia Workplace Readiness Skills curriculum that is used as a peer critique during the interviewing unit.  This rubric offers peer feedback to students as they switch roles of interviewer and interviewee in preparation for the Mock Job Fair. On the Mock Job Fair Day, business and community employers act as the interviewers conducting panel interviews of the EFE students. Each year several students have been hired on the spot as a result of this culminating activity.  This 2009-10 year, four students were hired in retail sales and dining service jobs.

The other general rubrics attached for power point presentations, discussions, essays etc. are used throughout the year as appropriate in the Education for Employment classroom.

Posted on the FCPS Blackboard Site and stated in the Education for Employment Handbook distributed to each student and discussed with the class on the first day of school, teacher support is stated as follows:  "It is the responsibility of the student to make arrangements with the teacher to receive additional instructional time or make up work.  A student may make an appointment to stay on late bus days (Mondays) each week from 2:20-3:20 PM.  The student may likewise schedule time for extra help daily before school from 5 AM - 7 AM or during D Lunch from 11:48-12:18 PM."

Contact Information  Email:  Debbie.Gordon@fcps.edu     Voicemail: 703 924-7530       Blackboard:  http://fcps.blackboard.com 

There is not a unified homework policy for Hayfield Secondary School; homework is the discretion of individual instructors.  Education for Employment student's quarterly evaluation is weighted as follows:

Individual Classroom Activities   40%

Collaborative Group Activities    30%

Homework                             10%

Assessments                          20%

In Education for Employment, homework counts 10% of the quarter grade using the weighted grading system calculated by IGPro, a computerized grading program which all FCPS secondary educators are required to use.  Education for Employment students are at-risk students with little parental support or availability to technology.  They are trying to balance school, work, and extra-curricular activities; hence their achievement is assessed primarily by active participation and skill performance in the classroom.  The grading evaluation shown  "creates a level playing field for all students," making it equal in terms of having access to a computer, internet access, software applications such as Powerpoint and Publisher, a printer, and individualized assistance from the instructor to maximize student achievement.  Homework is assigned quarterly, but is not weighted heavily and is a letter grade drop if it is not turned in on the due date. If homework is attempted, but not completed it is graded for quality of the assignment "as is."  If homework is not turned in by the end of the quarter, it equates to a "0" rather than a "63% or F." Any graded assignments including classwork and homework can be resubmitted for a higher grade.

 In cooperative education internships, the students are evaluated on their monthly employee hour and wage reports, monthly job site assessments, and quarterly employer evaluations.  Most of the coop students do their record-keeping for homework activities as their work schedule and calculator are the only necessary tools for completion.