LESSON 1
"Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in
your life." - Confucius
TITLE:
Aligning
Values with Career Search
GRADES:
9, 10,
11, 12
SUBJECTS:
ENGLISH/LANGUAGE
ARTS
MATHEMATICS
VOCATIONAL/TECHNICAL
SKILLS
LEARNER OUTCOMES:
The
student will gain an overall focus of career inquiry.
The
student will personally define success.
The
student will explore values via surveys, and target a career cluster that
aligns with personal values and goals.
DURATION OF LESSON:
90 minute
class period
MATERIALS:
TECHNOLOGY TOOLS:
One teacher
computer and data projector.
TEACHER'S NOTES:
Verify that the
School Acceptable Computer Usage form is on file.
Because a career
search is a process of elimination, students already know what want to do.
Basic to this search is finding career clusters and traits that align with
one's own values, view of success, unique skills and experiences.
Enough hard
copies of Defining Success, I-Search Paper, and Career Search Value Survey handouts should be
available for each student.
PROCEDURES:
1.
Distribute I-Search Paper to all students and discuss the contents and final draft requirements
of the paper.
2. Distribute
Defining Success to all students.
3. Using
the data projector, demonstrate proper procedures for compiling responses.
4. Distribute
Career Search Value Survey to each
student.
5. Using
the data projector, demonstrate proper procedures for compiling reactions
and responses.
6. After
assigning a numerical value to responses, calculate a total for each category.
7. The calculated
results will allow the students to pinpoint their value category and career
cluster.
MODIFICATIONS:
Modifications
will be made for those individuals with IEP's in coordination with the Special
Education Department.
ENRICHMENT ACTIVITIES:
Using each
value category description on the Career Search
Value Survey, students will identify specific vocational occupations.
IGOs FOR WEST VIRGINIA:
English/Language
Arts: 11.82, 11.83, 11.84, 11.86, 11.87, 11.88, 11.88, 11.90, 11.91
Mathematics: AGP.2,
AM1.9, AM1.11
Vocational/Technical
Skills: HSD 55, HSD 56, HSD 57, HSD 60, CAE 28, CAE 29
NATIONAL STANDARDS:
English/Language
Arts:
Reading
5. Uses the general
skills and strategies of the reading process.
7. Uses reading
skills and strategies to understand and interpret a variety of informational
texts.
Mathematics
1. Uses a variety
of strategies in the problem-solving process.
3. Uses basic and
advanced procedures while performing the processes of computation.
6. Understands
and applies basic and advanced concepts of statistics and data analysis.
Vocational/Technical Skills:
None listed.
JOBS/CAREER CLUSTERS:
- Business and Marketing
- Engineering and Technical
- Fine Arts and Humanities
- Health and Human Services
- Science and Natural
Resources
REFERENCES:
Fireside,
Bryna. Choices. Chicago: Ferguson Publishing, 1999.
Levitt, Julie. Your
Career. Boston: South-Western, 2000.
South-Western
Thomson
Global Rights Group
AUTHORS AND SCHOOL:
Cheri Chenoweth
Beth Moore
Jane Byrd
South Harrison High School
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