School Skills/Career Skills |
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Students will identify different types of educational
preparation required for various
occupations. |
Primary Learning Outcomes
What are the educational requirements for some jobs? Are there
math skills involved in some of these jobs?
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.
6
Topic: Skills to
locate, understand, and use career information.
Standard: Identify various ways that
occupations can be classified. Identify a number of occupational groups for
exploration. Demonstrate skills in using school and community resources to learn
about occupational groups. Identify sources to obtain information about
occupational groups including self-employment. Identify skills that are
transferable from one occupation to another. Identify sources of employment in
the community.
Procedures/Activities
Step:
1 Duration: 30 min.
Ask students to select an occupation and identify the amount
of education needed for that occupation.
Step:
2 Duration: 20 min.
Have students construct a bulletin board classification chart
showing the amount of training needed by workers in such areas as mathematics.
Step: 3 Duration: 45 min.
Ask students to study the classified ad section of a newspaper
to see the different levels of math that are required for various careers or
occupations they have found. Have students make a poll of occupations and people
in their community and relate these to actual educational preparation
Materials and Equipment
Poster paper, markers, newspaper classified ads
Standards (Local and/or National)
Total Duration
two or three class periods
Technology Connection
Assessment
Students' participation in the activity will be
evaluated.
Extension
Math skills are used here, but this activity could be repeated
using other subject areas—language arts, reading, science, etc.
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.
