For instance the business services and technology class at Traverse City West Senior High boasts a professional environment where students learn word processing, spreadsheet, database and presentation software. Yankee expects to train new employees on the Grand Traverse Resort's software. I guess I would just like people with good keyboarding skills, and someone who is just not intimidated by the computer. They are willing to try to find out how to use them. The key to computer literacy's importance is its role as a major avenue of communication - an important ability for future leaders to develop in today's world, VanSumeren said.
Jobs require working in teams more than they have in the past.
This requires every subject from math to literature to gym to include writing as part of its coursework. Not everybody thinks of jobs when they think of schools. MSU, like other universities, maintains a tracking system for high schools statewide. It contains a backlog of student profiles including placement in remedial classes, graduation rates and grade point averages. At the same time as the focus seems to be changing toward practical, job-oriented training, universities are seeing record numbers of students seeking higher education degrees, Cotter said.