Daily Agenda, Wednesday 2/4

I am a little bummed that only 7 people out of 38 actually read my blog and completed the Comment Assignment that was #6 in the Warm-up. That shows me just how many of you are truly reading and following the directions I list on my blog. Oh well, it was an ASSIGNMENT THAT WAS TO BE DONE ON TUESDAY, 2/3. Maybe after the everyone but those 7 receive a zero, maybe people will start reading directions more carefully.

WARM-UP:
1) check your mailbox
2) update your time sheet (all should be in your folders)
3) make copies of your pay check stubs if you brought any in
4) update your yellow pay check stub record sheet
5) update you weekly work schedule on to your blog if your work schedule as changed

CLASS ACTIVITIES:
If you weren't in class on Tuesday, be sure to read my blog post for that day and complete the work assigned.

6) FINISH THE WORKSHEET ASSIGNMENT FROM YESTERDAY. You had 2 handouts you were to print and complete. If you didn't get them completed, you have today to do so. Please work quickly.

THERE WILL NOT BE ANY ADDITIONAL EXTENSION.

7) New assignment for today -->

* Create a new blog post

* your blog title should be --> Employment Terms

* Type the following list of words and define them. Use your resources to find the definition of the words. (dictionary.com, search the web, the textbook, etc.)

* format for terms and definitions: type the term in ALL CAPS followed by a colon :

example of format --> EVALUATION: an act or instance of evaluating or appraising.

1. EVALUATION
2. ASSESSMENTS
3. BACKGROUND CHECK
4. BENEFITS
5. COLD CALL
6. COMPENSATION PACKAGE
7. GROSS PAY
8. FICA
9. OSHA
10. NET PAY
11. DEDUCTIONS
12. INTERNSHIP
13. OUTSOURCING
14. NETWORKING
15. OCCUPATIONAL OUTLOOK HANDBOOK
16. SALARY
17. TELECOMMUTING
18. TEMPING
19. THANK YOU LETTERS
20. WORK-PLACE VALUES

I found a bunch of these words at the following website; check it out: http://www.quintcareers.com/jobseeker_glossary.html

8) Make sure you have completed all worksheets assigned to date and that you have turned them all in.

Thank you and have a great day.

DAILY AGENDA, TUESDAY 2/3/09

REMINDERS:
* Even though I am gone this week, you must still call or text me if you are going to be missing school for whatever reason. Just because I am gone does not mean you get a "free pass" on communicating with me.
Thank you to those of you who did that on Monday. Way to go!

* I am gone all week.
* Be on your best behavior all week please.
* Your folders are back in the big black crate and they are in the correct alphabetical order. Please be sure to keep them in the correct order.

* W-2 FORMS ARE DUE NEXT MONDAY, FEB. 9TH. BE SURE TO BRING THEM IN AND MAKE A COPY AND PUT IT IN YOUR FOLDER.

* New students please be sure that you get help with copying your paycheck stubs, recording your hours on the time sheet, and recording your paycheck stub information on your paycheck stub record sheet (yellow sheet). Everyone should have a folder in the crate. If you don't, please leave a comment on my blog and I will get you one. Everyone should have a box with their name on it. Please let me know if I have left you out. In addition, please make sure that you have corrected a blog and have left a comment on my blog so I can add your blog address to my blog.

* MAKE SURE YOU CHECK YOUR MAILBOX EACH DAY AT THE BEGINNING OF THE CLASS PERIOD.

WARM-UP:
1) check your mailbox
2) update your time sheet (all should be in your folders)
3) make copies of your pay check stubs if you brought any in
4) update your yellow pay check stub record sheet
5) update you weekly work schedule on to your blog IF you were not here yesterday or if your schedule has changed. (Please see Daily Agenda, Monday 2/2/09 posting for week # and formatting example if you do not remember.)
6) COMMENT ASSIGNMENT: EVERYONE IS TO POST A COMMENT ON MY BLOG TODAY. POST THE COMMENT TO TODAY'S BLOG POST. TELL ME 1 THING YOU HAVE LEARNED THUS FAR FROM STUDYING THE OSHA-TEEN WORKERS SAFETY IN RESTAURANTS WEBSITE.

Points off for every day this in not posted correctly, completely or not at all.

CLASS ACITIVITIES:
* More work on the OSHA Teen Workers Safety in Restaurants website. I will probably be coming to collect what was turned in today, so you better make sure you complete all the work I have assigned yesterday and today.
* If you were absent on Monday, please see Daily Agenda, Monday 2/2/09, post and complete the assignment made on Monday, before beginning today's assignment.

6) Complete yesterday's worksheet, if you have not yet done so. OSHA-Teen Workers Safety in Restaurants_Serving-Handout2
7) Turn in Handout 2 once you have completed (should not take all period today).
8) Click on the following links. New handouts for today(you have 2 to complete today, because they are not very long at all -->

OSHA-Teen Workers Safety in Restaurants_Clean-up-Handout3_Electrical Hazards
OSHA-Teen Workers Safety in Restaurants_Clean-up-Handout4-Strains & Sprains

* Open the document and print it out.
* This is the worksheet you must complete during class TODAY. AND YES YOU WILL BE TURNING IT IN SO I CAN SEE WHO DID WHAT TODAY.
* If you do not follow directions, you will lose points off your Weekly Professional Development points.

* Please make sure you have completed yesterday's and today's worksheets by the end of the period, completely.

MAKE SURE YOU PUT YOUR NAME ON ALL PAGES OF THE WORKSHEET, IN CASE THEY GET SEPARATED. (points will be taken off if this is not followed)

7) You will need to go to the following website in order to fill in the worksheet you just printed. http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/youth/restaurant/index.html
* Click on the Clean-up tab
* The worksheet covers Electrical Hazards and

8) TURN IN YOUR WORKSHEET TODAY - MAKE SURE YOU ARE DONE WITH YOUR WORKSHEET.THERE IS NO OTHER BLOG POST ASSIGNMENT ACCEPT FOR POSTING YOUR WEEKLY WORK SCHEDULE.

Have a super day and Please remember my MOTTO's:
1) NO SCHOOL/NO WORK (hours can't be counted)
2) MAKE WISE DECISIONS.

Daily Agenda, Monday 2/2/09

REMINDERS:


* I am gone all week.
* Be on your best behavior all week please.
* Your folders are back in the big black crate and they are in the correct alphabetical order. Please be sure to keep them in the correct order.

* W-2 FORMS ARE DUE NEXT MONDAY, FEB. 9TH. BE SURE TO BRING THEM IN AND MAKE A COPY AND PUT IT IN YOUR FOLDER.

* New students please be sure that you get help with copying your paycheck stubs, recording your hours on the time sheet, and recording your paycheck stub information on your paycheck stub record sheet (yellow sheet). Everyone should have a folder in the crate. If you don't, please leave a comment on my blog and I will get you one. Everyone should have a box with their name on it. Please let me know if I have left you out. In addition, please make sure that you have corrected a blog and have left a comment on my blog so I can add your blog address to my blog.

* MAKE SURE YOU CHECK YOUR MAILBOX EACH DAY AT THE BEGINNING OF THE CLASS PERIOD.

* People are starting to make poor choices again. Please remember my MOTTO's:
1) NO SCHOOL/NO WORK (hours can't be counted)
2) MAKE WISE DECISIONS.

WARM-UP:
Students new this semester, if you are not sure how to do any of the warm-up items listed, please ask a neighbor to help you out.

1) check your mailbox
2) update your time sheet (all should be in your folders)
3) make copies of your pay check stubs if you brought any in
4) update your yellow pay check stub record sheet
5) up date you weekly work schedule on to your blog. I will be checking for these (TODAY)MAKE SURE THAT YOU LIST EACH DAY OF THE WEEK AND THAT YOU LIST EACH DAY'S DATE.

Remember if you are unemployed, you must still make a post on your blog and tell me where all you have gone to put your application in, so I can follow up.

See below for example or go to AmandaM's blog (located under 2nd period).

Title of your blog post should be: Work Schedule Week #22

Monday, 1/26: off
Tuesday, 1/27: 3 pm - 10 pm
Wednesday, 1/28: off
Thursday, 1/29: 4 pm - 11 pm
Friday, 1/30: 5 pm - 12 am
Saturday, 1/31: 10 am - 4 pm
Sunday, 2/1: off


CLASS ACITIVITIES:
6) Click on the following link.
OSHA-Teen Workers Safety in Restaurants_Serving-Handout2

* Open the document and print it out.
* This is your worksheet you must complete during class TODAY. AND YES YOU WILL BE TURNING IT IN SO I CAN SEE WHO DID WHAT TODAY.
* If you do not follow directions, you will lose points off your Weekly Professional Development points, which as you should remember, is 10% of your average.
* There is no reason you should not be able to complete this entire worksheet during class today, BUT if you don't, put your worksheet in your folder for safe keeping until tomorrow.

MAKE SURE YOU PUT YOUR NAME ON ALL PAGES OF THE WORKSHEET, IN CASE THEY GET SEPARATED.

7) You will need to go to the following website in order to fill in the worksheet you just printed. http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/youth/restaurant/index.html
* Click on the Serving Tab.
* The worksheet covers Workplace Violence and Cuts/Knives

8) TURN IN YOUR WORKSHEET TODAY - MAKE SURE YOU ARE DONE WITH YOUR WORKSHEET.

THERE IS NO OTHER BLOG POST ASSIGNMENT ACCEPT FOR POSTING YOUR WEEKLY WORK SCHEDULE.

DAILY AGENDA, THURSDAY 1/29/09

REMINDERS:
* You must call me if you are going to be late to school or are not coming to school. I cannot count your work hours in the afternoon, if you miss school in the morning. A lot of you have not been doing this. (In the workplace this can get you fired.)

* W-2 forms must be brought in and copied by February 9th. (major grade)

* You must be bringin in your pay check stubs, copying them and recording the information on your Yellow Pay Check Stub Record Sheet. I should be able to pull that sheet any time and look to see how many total hours you have worked to date. (THIS IS NOT ACCURATE FOR 100% OF YOU.)

* I have started taking out evaluations. Just so you know they must be returned to me by February 12th.

* When completing your time sheet - you must include the $ to indicate MONEY.

WARM-UP:
Students new this semester, if you are not sure how to do any of the warm-up items listed, please ask a neighbor to help you out.
1) check your mailbox (there are some time sheets in there)
2) update your time sheet
3) make copies of your pay check stubs if you brought any in
4) update your yellow pay check stub record sheet
5) up date you weekly work schedule on to your blog. I will be checking for these (TODAY)MAKE SURE THAT YOU LIST EACH DAY OF THE WEEK AND THAT YOU LIST EACH DAY'S DATE. See below for example.
If you your blog post doesn't look like mine below then you NEED TO FIX YOURS TODAY!!* Title of your blog post should be: Work Schedule Week #21

Work Schedule Week #21
Monday, 1/26: off
Tuesday, 1/27: 3 pm - 10 pm
Wednesday, 1/28: off
Thursday, 1/29: 4 pm - 11 pm
Friday, 1/30: 5 pm - 12 am
Saturday, 1/31: 10 am - 4 pm
Sunday, 2/1: off

CLASS ACTIVITIES:
6) discussion of a few things
7) preparation for next week
8) update, correct and complete time sheets
9) calcuate the gross pay, on your other time sheets

DAILY AGENDA, WEDNESDAY 1/28/09

I was glad to see that only a few of you didn't turn in your worksheet at all, and only a few that FAILED to complete the whole thing. Way to go to all of you who completed the worksheet yesterday in the time alloted.

WARM-UP:
1) get your folder (Hint: Not in the black box, you have to find them)
2) get out something to write with
3) go to the center of the room
4) get out your 4th six weeks time sheet
5) get out your pay check stub we were using on Monday

CLASS ACTIVITIES:
6) complete the time sheet calculations we started on Monday
7) update your time sheet
8) update your weekly work schedule post, if you have any changes
9) copy your pay check stubs if you brought them
10) update your yellow pay check stub record sheet

NEXT WEEK WHILE I AM GONE YOU WILL CONTINUE TO WORK ON THE TEEN WORKER SAFETY IN RESTAURANTS eTOOL WEBSITE. WITH A BIT OF ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES. YOU WILL HAVE A TON OF WORK TO DO NEXT WEEK, BECAUSE I WANT YOU BUSY THE ENTIRE PERIOD - WORKING HARD FOR THE SUB EACH DAY!!!
PLEASE START PREPARING YOURSELF FOR THAT WORK NEXT WEEK.

People are starting to make poor choices again. Please remember my MOTTO's:
1) NO SCHOOL/NO WORK (hours can't be counted)
2) MAKE WISE DECISIONS.

Daily Agenda, Tuesday 1/27/09

Hey guys.
Sorry I am not here for you today, but Madison (my daughter) is running a fever and I can't take her to daycare. I hope to be back tomorrow.

Please don't play on the Internet and play games. I would really like for you all to complete the assignment I have listed here. No one completed the assignment I made yesterday, because I didn't get any print outs. Please be sure and complete what I have left here for you to do TODAY.

DO NOT LET ME COME BACK TO A BAD REPORT FROM THE SUB FROM EITHER CLASS. YOU WILL NOT BE HAPPY WITH ME IF THAT HAPPENS.

W-2 FORMS ARE DUE COPIED AND IN YOUR FOLDER BY 2/9!

DO NOT TAKE YOUR FOLDER OUT OF MY BLACK BOX AND KEEP IT. YOUR FOLDERS MUST STAY IN THAT BOX AT THE END OF EACH PERIOD.

We will continue with Monday's lesson on Wednesday, when I return. If you have a pay check stub to bring in, please do so by tomorrow and make copies so you can get your folder up-to-date.

WARM-UP:
Students new this semester, if you are not sure how to do any of the warm-up items listed, please ask a neighbor to help you out.

1) check your mailbox (there are some time sheets in there)
2) update your time sheet
3) make copies of your pay check stubs if you brought any in
4) update your yellow pay check stub record sheet
5) up date you weekly work schedule on to your blog. I will be checking for these (TODAY)
MAKE SURE THAT YOU LIST EACH DAY OF THE WEEK AND THAT YOU LIST EACH DAY'S DATE. See below for example.
If you your blog post doesn't look like mine below then you NEED TO FIX YOURS TODAY!!
* Title of your blog post should be: Work Schedule Week #21

Work Schedule Week #21
Monday, 1/26: off
Tuesday, 1/27: 3 pm - 10 pm
Wednesday, 1/28: off
Thursday, 1/29: 4 pm - 11 pm
Friday, 1/30: 5 pm - 12 am
Saturday, 1/31: 10 am - 4 pm
Sunday, 2/1: off

TODAY'S ACTIVITIES:
6) Click on the following link.
OSHA-Teen Workers Safety in Restaurants_Serving-Handout1
Open the document and print it out. This is your worksheet you must complete during class TODAY. AND YES YOU WILL BE TURNING IT IN SO I CAN SEE WHO DID WHAT TODAY.
If you do not follow directions, you will lose points off your Weekly Professional Development points, which as you should remember, is 1/6 of 10% of your average. There is no reason you should not be able to complete this entire worksheet during class today.

7) You will need to go to the following website in order to fill in the worksheet you just printed. http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/youth/restaurant/index.html
You will go through the etools site, reading the information and filling out the worksheet you printed out.

This is a great activity and you were going to do it whether I was here or not, at some point this semester. Whether you work in a Restaurant or not, the information you can learn from doing this activity can really be applied to all industries.

8) TURN IN YOUR WORKSHEET TODAY - IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU ARE FINISHED OR NOT.

Daily Agenda, Monday 1/26

W-2 FORMS ARE DUE COPIED AND IN YOUR FOLDER BY 2/9!

DO NOT TAKE YOUR FOLDER OUT OF MY BLACK BOX AND KEEP IT. YOUR FOLDERS MUST STAY IN THAT BOX AT THE END OF EACH PERIOD.

Students new this semester, if you are not sure how to do any of the warm-up items listed, please ask a neighbor to help you out.

WARM-UP:

1) check your mailbox (there are some time sheets in there)
2) update your time sheet
3) keep your time sheet at your desk we will be doing some work on them today
4) post your weekly work schedule on to your blog. I will be checking for these (TODAY)
5) Get your folder from the box (you will need it for today's activities)

Title of your blog post should be: Work Week #21

Be sure to list each day of the week and the date and your schedule.
See example ------------------------------------------------>

6) copy pay check stubs and update your yellow Pay Check Stub sheet

Move out to the center of the room once you are done with your warm-up.

CLASS ACTIVITIES:
7) calculating the rest of your time sheet
8) you will a calculator, cell phone will be acceptable
9) neturn your updated time sheet in to the 1st/2nd period turn in box