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Students will examine the organizational structure of
jobs and compare and contrast that to the organizational structure they
encounter in school. |
Primary Learning Outcomes
What is organizational structure? What is expected of workers
in typical organizational structures? How do the organizational structures for
work and for school compare? What are the differences in these
structures?
Additional Learning Outcomes
Assessed QCC Standards:
Grade: 6
Guidance
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.
Grade: 6
Tech & Career Ed (MS
Exploratory)
Exploratory Business
1
Topic: Career
Exploration
Standard: Examines
traits, skills training, education, and conditions needed to succeed in various
business occupations.
Exploratory Technology
1
Topic: Career
Exploration
Standard: Examines
traits, skills training, education, and conditions needed to succeed in various
technical and engineering occupations.
Procedures/Activities
Step:
1 Duration: 10 min.
Discuss adjustments required for life in an organization.
Explain how every company, business, or institution has an organizational
structure in which: a. Workers must adjust to authority; b. Workers encounter
many impersonal rules and relationships; c. Most workers experience a
significant degree of routine on the job.
Step:
2 Duration: 15 min.
Divide students into small groups. Using a Venn diagram, have
students compare how the organizational structure on the job is similar to and
different from the organizational structure they are accustomed to in
school.
Step: 3 Duration: 15
min.
Allow student groups to present their diagrams and discuss
their results.
Materials and Equipment
Writing materials, paper; chalkboard, chalk; white board,
markers.
Standards (Local and/or National)
Total Duration
40 min.
Technology Connection
Assessment
Students will be assessed on their Venn diagrams.
Extension
Invite a company employer and employee to speak to the class
at different times.
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.
