Investigating Career Choices |
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Students will identify factors that are important to
consider when choosing an occupation. |
Primary Learning Outcomes
What factors should I consider when choosing an
occupation?
Additional Learning Outcomes
Assessed QCC Standards:
Grade: 7
Guidance
B. Educational and Occupational Exploration
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.
7
Topic: Knowledge
of skills necessary to seek and obtain jobs.
Standard: Demonstrate personal qualities
(e.g., , dependability, punctuality, getting along with others) that are needed
to get and keep jobs. Describe terms and concepts used in identifying employment
opportunities and conditions. Demonstrate skills to complete a job application.
Demonstrate skills and attitudes essential for a job interview.
Procedures/Activities
Step:
1 Duration: 10 min.
Have students brainstorm all the things they can think of that
they consider important in selecting a career or occupation. List these ideas on
the chalkboard. Have students rank the top five choices that they consider to be
the most important influences in selecting a career or occupation.
Step: 2 Duration: 15 min.
Ask students to share their choices with the other members of
the group. Discuss similarities and differences in the choices that the group
members have made.
Step:
3 Duration: 15 min.
Discuss the kinds of jobs that might be selected as a result
of the influences that students have identified.
Materials and Equipment
Chalkboard, Chalk
Standards (Local and/or National)
Total Duration
One class period
Technology Connection
Assessment
Students' participation in the activity will be
evaluated.
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.
