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Students will examine conflicts when making decisions
about lifestyles. |
Primary Learning Outcomes
What areas of your life would need adjusting if you were to
marry?
Additional Learning Outcomes
Assessed QCC Standards:
Grade: 9-12
Guidance
B. Educational and Occupational Exploration
4
Topic: Understanding the relationship between educational achievement and
career planning.
Standard: -Demonstrate how to apply academic and vocational skills to
personal interests. -Describe the relationship of academic and vocational skills
to personal interests. -Describe how skills developed in academic and vocational
programs relate to career goals. -Describe how education relates to the
selection of college majors, further training, and/or entry into the job market.
-Demonstrate transferable skills that can apply to a variety of occupations and
changing occupational requirements. -Describe how learning skills are required
in the workplace.
8
Topic: Understanding how societal needs and functions influence the nature
and structure of work.
Standard: -Describe the effect of work on lifestyles. -Describe how society’s
needs and functions affect the supply of goods and services. -Describe how
occupational and industrial trends relate to training and employment.
-Demonstrate an understanding of the global economy and how it affects each
individual.
C. Career Planning
9
Topic: Skills to
make decisions.
Standard: -Demonstrate responsibility for making tentative educational and
occupational choices. -Identify alternatives in given decision making
situations. -Describe personal strengths and weaknesses in relationship to
postsecondary education/training requirements. -Identify appropriate choices
during high school that will lead to marketable skills for entry-level
employment or advanced training. -Identify and complete required steps toward
transition from high school to entry into post-secondary education/training
programs or work. -Identify steps to apply for and secure financial assistance
for postsecondary education and training.
10
Topic: Understanding the interrelationship of life roles.
Standard: -Demonstrate knowledge of life
stages. -Describe factors that determine lifestyles (e.g., socioeconomic status,
culture, values, occupational choices, work habits). -Describe ways in which
occupational choices may affect lifestyle. -Describe the contribution of work to
a balanced and productive life. -Describe ways in which work, family, and
leisure are interrelated. -Describe different career patterns and their
potential effect on family patterns and lifestyle. -Describe the importance of
leisure activities. -Demonstrate ways that occupational skills and knowledge can
be acquired through leisure.
Procedures/Activities
Step:
1 Duration:
Present the following dilemma to the students: “You are
engaged to be married and you and your fiancé have just graduated from high
school. You want to marry now, but your parents have encouraged you to wait. You
both are interested in managing you own business some day and feel a college
education would be helpful. Your parents have encouraged both of you to attend a
university and will finance it if you wait to marry. If you marry now, one of
you will have to work at least the four years needed until graduation. It will
probably be difficult for that person to start college after waiting four
years.” What do you do?
Step:
2 Duration:
Divide the class into groups of four to six students, making
sure that some male and female students are in each group.
Step: 3 Duration:
Ask the groups to arrive at a solution to the problem
presented.
Step: 4 Duration:
Discuss with the class: a. What alternatives are available? b.
What are the immediate educational plans for each? c. What are the immediate
career plans for each? d. What assumptions did you make about male and female
roles? e. Ultimately, how did it work out for both?
Materials and Equipment
none
Standards (Local and/or National)
Total Duration
1 hour
Technology Connection
Assessment
Students will be assessed as they identify several options,
discuss each, and select alternatives.
Extension
A male and female student could role-play this
situation.
Remediation
Role playing can clarify the lesson.
Accommodation
Modification
For students with significant disabilities, what changes can
be made in instruction and teaching delivery to allow students to participate in
classroom instruction while working on IEP objectives and off grade level QCC
standards. Below are suggested modifications correlated to the procedures of
this lesson plan.
