Capabilities
Learning Programs
Tecknomic conducts clear and effective learning experiences, training participants in the areas of Organizational and Human Capital Development. We specialize in the design, development and delivery an array exercises and training.
Passport to Work Summer Youth Program is an effort to meet Mayor Adrian Fenty’s goal of engaging 15,000 District youth in meaningful and rewarding summer activities. This program is an excellent opportunity for job placement with Department of Employment Services (DOES) covering the cost for employment.
These offerings present the best and most up-to-date courses and methods that will help build, design and implement a ten (10) week project-based learning program that includes academic enrichment, career exploration, work readiness and leadership skills training for approximately 6,500 District youth 14 to 18 years of age.
Host Site: Emory United Methodist Church
6100 Georgia Ave., NW Washington,
DC 20011 202-723-1139 main 202-318-8996 fax
Areas of Focus
Basic Skills – The term is expanded to include cognitive and interpersonal abilities; critical thinking and problem-solving; oral, written, and electronic communication; working effectively alone and in teams; and taking responsibility for one’s own development, in addition to reading, writing, and arithmetic.
Career Awareness – Activities designed to make young people aware of a broad range of careers and occupations in the world of work, including options that may not be traditional for their gender, race, or ethnicity.
Career Development – Youth develop and identify their careers through a continuum of career awareness, career exploration, and career exposure activities that lead to discernment of one’s own career path.
Contextual Learning – Acquisition of knowledge that occurs in close relationship with actual experience. Contextual learning enables youth to test academic theories through tangible, real-world applications. Stressing the development of “authentic” problem-solving skills, contextual learning is designed to blend teaching methods, content, situation, and timing.
Job Shadowing – Process in which a youth follows an employee at a firm or office for one or more days to learn about a particular occupation or industry. Job shadowing can help a youth to explore a range of career options and select a career major for the latter part of high school.
Life Skills – Knowledge and techniques needed to facilitate and enhance individual’s life, for example, confidence and self-esteem building, balancing a checkbook/budgeting, personal hygiene, etiquette, conflict resolution, nutrition, and effective communication.
Passport-to-Work – “Umbrella term” for the collection of DOES Office of Youth Programs-administered programs designed to assist District youth 14 to 21 years of age develop the requisite skills and attitudes to transition to, and compete in, a dynamic labor market. The four primary Passport-to-Work components are the Summer Youth Program, Mayor’s Youth Leadership Institute, and In-School and Out-of-School Youth Programs.
Portfolio – Collection of items that documents an individual’s educational performance over time. Typically, it includes a range of materials selected by the youth. Brief introductory and summary statements may describe how the portfolio was assembled and what was learned in the compilation process. It may be used to demonstrate a wide variety of skills; assist in recognizing one’s own academic growth; teach the individual greater responsibility for one’s own work, learning, and development.
Project-Based Learning – Collaboration of young person and practitioner/teacher to create projects organized around an occupational or on-the- job topic that requires the young person to apply what has been learned both in the workplace and summer experience and in school to address practical problems.