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Students will use web resources to determine the fastest
growing occupations and what level of education or training is necessary
to fill those jobs. |
Primary Learning Outcomes
What are the fastest growing occupations? What training and
education is necessary for those 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.
C. Career Planning
9
Topic: Skills to
make decisions.
Standard: Describe personal beliefs and attitudes. Describe how career
development is a continuous process with series of choices. Identify possible
outcomes of decisions. Describe school courses related to personal, educational,
and occupational interests. Describe how the expectations of others affect
career planning. Identify advantages and disadvantages of various secondary and
postsecondary programs for the attainment of career goals. Identify the
requirements for secondary and postsecondary programs.
Procedures/Activities
Step:
1 Duration: 10 min.
Discuss with students that making informed career decisions
requires reliable information about opportunities in the future. Opportunities
result from the relationships between the population, labor force, and the
demand for goods and services (write these on the board). Population ultimately
limits the size of the labor force-individuals working or looking for work-which
constrains how much can be produced. Demand for various goods and services
determines employment in the industries providing them. Occupational employment
opportunities, in turn, result from skills needed within specific industries.
Opportunities for computer engineers and other computer-related occupations, for
example, have surged in response to rapid growth in demand for computer
services.
Step: 2 Duration: 5
min.
Conduct a survey of students asking how many believe that the
fastest growing jobs will require a doctoral degree, masters degree, bachelors
degree, associates degree or some form of on-the-job training. Write each
category on the board and the number of students who predicted that the fastest
growing jobs would require which degree or training.
Step: 3 Duration: 10 min.
Direct students to the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational
Outlook Handbook 2002-03 to find Chart 4, Percent Change in Number of Jobs by
Most Significant Source of Education or Training, Projected 2000-2010. The chart
shows that jobs requiring an associate degree are projected to grow 32 percent
over the 2000-10 period, faster than any other category. Review student
responses on the board in light of this chart.
Web Resources for
Step 3
Title: Percent change in number of jobs by most significant
source of education or training
URL: http://stats.bls.gov/oco/images/ocotjc04.gif
Annotation:
This Bureau of Labor Statistics chart from the Occupational Outlook Handbook
2002-03 shows that jobs requiring an associate degree are projected to grow 32
percent over the 2000-10 period, faster than any other category.
Step: 4 Duration: 10
min.
Direct students to the Occupational Outlook Handbook 2002-03
Table 1, Fastest growing occupations and occupations projected to have the
largest numerical increases in employment between 2000 and 2010, by level of
education or training. Have them click on the link Associate Degree and collect
information on the Fastest growing occupations (on the left side of the chart)
and Occupations having the largest category numerical increases in employment
(on the right side of the chart).
Web Resources for Step 4
Title: Table 1. Fastest growing occupations and occupations
projected to have the largest numerical increases in employment between 2000
and 2010, by level of education or training
URL: http://stats.bls.gov/oco/ocotjt1.htm#F
Annotation:
Table 1 from the Occupational Outlook Handbook 2002-03lists occupations
projected to grow the fastest and to generate the largest numbers of new jobs
over the 2000-10 period, by level of education or training required.
Step: 5 Duration: 15
minutes
Have students write a short report on the occupational
information they've gathered.
Materials and Equipment
Writing materials, chalkboard or white board.
Standards (Local and/or National)
Total Duration
50 min.
Technology Connection
Computer with internet access; printer
Assessment
Students will be assessed on their reports.
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.
