1. Cell Phone and Email Assessment
This activity aims to assess cell phone and email skills.
Discuss
Being able to clearly communicate with others is an essential skill that can make a huge difference in school, work, and everyday life. This includes being able to communicate through email and phone. Whether you’re applying for a job, asking a professor a question, or scheduling an appointment, how you communicate matters. These skills are important when looking for work and when you’re working. Often, interviews are set up via email, phone calls or text messages so making sure that you are equipped with the skills to use your phone, and email is going to be key.
To see what supports you may need, we first need to figure out what skills you have and what skills you want to work on. This assessment will help provide a comprehensive view of each student’s current abilities and areas where they want to improve. [Note to Instructors: you can then use this information to create targeted lessons or provide individualized support. Feel free to adapt these assessments to better fit the needs of your learner(s) and take skills off or add skills that you feel are needed to make the assessment more compressive.]
Resource
Skill Assessment for Cell Phone and Email. This assessment can be completed by the student or anyone who supports the student’s learning. It can also be used as an interactive activity, where the student attempts each skill while someone observes and provides guidance as needed. This approach offers a more accurate understanding of the student’s current abilities and areas for growth. This is just a tool to help you better assess a student’s understanding and desire.
Depending on the results of the assessment here are various activities to support any student needs.
- Voice Mail Set Up: Setting Up a Voicemail Script offers a couple voicemail scripts and space for students to write their own. Assist students in doing this on their personal devices or provide them with directions to do it at home with their caregivers.
- Email Set Up: Help students set up a professional email account if they don’t already have one. Use a free service like Gmail or Outlook.
- Checking Voice Mails, Texts and Emails: Help students build healthy habits of checking their voicemails, texts, and emails. Leave a voicemail, send a text message, or email to the student asking for a response (E.g., request they bring an item to the next meeting (pen, notebook, their favorite book, etc.), or request a specific reply (repeating a phrase, answering a question, etc.).
- Compose an Email: Assist students in composing emails for various real-life scenarios and send them to you. Review these emails together and provide constructive feedback to help them improve. Write it Right: Email Tips has sample email scenarios, or feel free to create your own.