Career Success and Choices |
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Students will explore what career success means to them
and complete a worksheet to find career areas of
interest. |
Primary Learning Outcomes
What do I want in a career? What kinds of careers offer the
things I want? What do other careers offer?
Additional Learning Outcomes
Assessed QCC Standards:
Grade: 6
Guidance
A. Self Knowledge
1
Topic: Knowledge
of the influence of a positive self-concept.
Standard: Describe personal likes and
dislikes. Describe individual skills required to fulfill different life roles.
Describe how one’s behavior influences the feelings and actions of others.
Identify environmental influences on attitudes, behaviors, and aptitudes.
B. Educational and Occupational Exploration
4
Topic: Knowledge
of the benefits of educational achievement to career opportunities.
Standard: Describe the importance of
academic and occupational skills in the work world. Identify how the skills
taught in school subjects are used in various occupations. Describe individual
strengths and weaknesses in school subjects. Describe a plan of action for
increasing basic educational skills. Describe the skills needed to adjust to
changing occupational requirements. Describe how continued learning enhances the
ability to achieve goals. Describe how skills relate to the selection of high
school courses of study. Describe how aptitudes and abilities relate to broad
occupational groups.
5
Topic: Understanding the relationship between work and
learning.
Standard: Demonstrate
effective learning habits and skills. Demonstrate an understanding of the
importance of personal skills and attitudes to job success. Describe the
relationship of personal attitudes, beliefs, abilities, and skills to
occupations.
C. Career Planning
12
Topic: Understanding the process of career planning.
Standard: Demonstrate knowledge of
exploratory processes and programs. Identify school courses that meet tentative
career goals. Demonstrate knowledge of academic and vocational programs offered
at the high school level. Describe skills needed in a variety of occupations,
including self-employment. Identify strategies for managing personal resources
(e.g., , talents, time, money) to achieve tentative career goals. Develop an
individual career plan, updating information from the elementary-level plan and
including tentative decisions to be implemented in high school. Identify and
appreciate personal interests, abilities, and skills. Demonstrate the ability to
use peer feedback. Demonstrate an understanding of how individual
characteristics relate to achieving personal, social, educational, and career
goals. Demonstrate an understanding of environmental influences on one’s
behavior. Demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between personal
behavior and self- concept.
Grade: 6
Language Arts
Reference and Study Skills
53
Topic:
Standard: Selects
appropriate sources (database, electronic multi-media technologies, microforms,
interviews, general and specialized references, community resource files, and
periodical indices) to collect information on a given topic.
Writing
74
Topic:
Standard: Produces various types of writing (personal, academic, business,
and vocational).
Procedures/Activities
Step:
1 Duration: 10 minutes
Survey the class about what's important to them in a career
(i.e., helping, having interesting work, making money, working with others,
working independently, taking risks, etc.). Write their answers on the
board.
Step: 2 Duration: 5
minutes
Discuss with students that some careers can combine several of
the items they listed. For instance, you can set your own hours, help people and
make money as a physician. Survey the class for other examples.
Step: 3 Duration: 15 minutes
Pass out the Career Success Worksheet, go over the directions
and have students complete the worksheet.
Attachments for Step 3
Title: Career Success Worksheet FileName: Career Success Worksheet.htm
Description: Print out
and copy for your students.
Step:
4 Duration: 30 minutes
Once students have completed the worksheet, go over their
results and have each student choose one occupation from the list that interests
them. Direct students to the Bureau of Labor Statistic's Occupational Outlook
Handbook search site and have them write a short paper on information they have
gathered about their chosen career.
Web Resources for Step 4
Title: Occupational Outlook Handbook Search/A-Z
Index
URL: http://www.bls.gov/search/ooh.asp?ct=OOH
Annotation:
This Bureau of Labor Statistics web site provides information on occupations
including the nature of the work; working conditions; employment; training,
other qualifications, and advancement; job outlook; earnings; related
occupations; and sources of additional information.
Materials and Equipment
Writing material, chalkboard or whiteboard; Career Success
Worksheet
Standards (Local and/or National)
Total Duration
60 minutes
Technology Connection
Computer with internet connection; printer
Assessment
Students will be assessed on their worksheets and their papers
on a chosen career.
Extension
Remediation
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.
