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Students will use worksheets to decide which career
rewards are most important to them and explore various careers choices in
the categories they've chosen. Students will then use a guided web search
to gather information on their chosen career and write a short
report. |
Primary Learning Outcomes
What is important to me in a career? Which careers offer these
rewards? What skills and training are needed to prepare for these
careers?
Additional Learning Outcomes
Assessed QCC Standards:
Grade: 8
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.
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.
10
Topic: Knowledge of the interrelationship of life roles.
Standard: Identify how different work and
family patterns require varying kinds and amounts of energy, participation,
motivation, and talent. Identify how work roles at home satisfy needs of the
family. Identify personal goals that may be satisfied through a combination of
work, community, social, and family roles. Identify personal leisure choices in
relation to lifestyle and the attainment of future goals. Describe advantages
and disadvantages of various life role options.
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: 8
Language Arts
Reference and Study Skills
46
Topic:
Standard: Uses a
research process that includes selecting topic, formulating questions,
identifying key words, choosing sources, skimming, paraphrasing, note-taking,
organizing, summarizing, and presenting.
47
Topic:
Standard: Locates
and uses information in card catalogs, periodical indices, microforms, and
multi-media electronic technologies.
Writing
64
Topic:
Standard: Uses a
writing process that includes prewriting, drafting, revising, editing (can
involve peer editing), proofreading, and publishing.
65
Topic:
Standard: Writes
paragraphs that include unifying ideas and supporting details (may include topic
sentence and clincher sentence).
70
Topic:
Standard: Produces various types of writing (personal, academic, business,
and vocational).
75
Topic:
Standard: Uses
available electronic techniques in writing.
Procedures/Activities
Step:
1 Duration: 5 minutes
Discuss with students the various rewards of working. Use your
own career choice as teacher to explain the rewards in your occupation. Ask
students to think about what rewards they expect from a career.
Step: 2 Duration: 10 minutes
Distribute the Career Considerations worksheet, explain the
instructions and have students complete the worksheet.
Attachments
for Step 2
Title: Career Considerations FileName:
Career Considerations Worksheet.doc
Description: Copy
and distribute to students.
Step:
3 Duration: 10 minutes
Once students have completed the task, distribute the Typical
Careers worksheet, explain the instructions and have students select one of the
listed careers in which they are most interested.
Attachments for
Step 3
Title: Typical Careers FileName:
Typical Careers Worksheet.doc
Description: Copy and
distribute to students.
Step:
4 Duration: 30 minutes
Once students have chosen a career, direct them to the
Occupational Outlook Handbook search website to find out more about that career.
Write these items on the board: the nature of the work; working conditions;
employment; training, other qualifications and advancement; job outlook; and
earnings. Tell students they must gather this information about their chosen
career and write a short report.
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 US Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics website allows students
to search for careers and find detailed information on the nature of the work;
working conditions; employment; training, other qualifications, and
advancement; job outlook; earnings; related occupations; and sources of
additional information.
Step:
5 Duration: 10 minutes
Once students have completed their reports, collect them and
discuss their results.
Materials and Equipment
Writing materials, chalkboard, white board,
worksheets
Standards (Local and/or National)
Total Duration
65 minutes
Technology Connection
Computer with internet connection, printer
Assessment
Students will be assessed on their final written report.
Extension
Have student categorize the reports into various career areas
and collect them in folders as a class resource. Encourage students to add to
the career resource.
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.
