Vocational Studies Subdomain

Students use strategies for choosing and preparing for a career.

Jobs and careers reflect both individual and societal needs.

New jobs and careers emerge and others are deleted due to the needs of society (e.g., increased need for nursing home care due to more people working).

· Evaluate a preliminary, personal career plan.

· Assess personal strength, interests, and abilities.

· Analyze the relationship between educational achievements and career opportunities.

· Demonstrate knowledge of the interrelationship of life roles, lifestyles, and careers.

· Explore career options in different occupational clusters and geographic areas.

· Initiate one day career exchange program with local community members.

· Develop a collage showing how changing technology has changed jobs in specific areas (e.g., communication, transportation, manufacturing).

· Develop an Individual Graduation Plan (IGP) to determine courses for the freshman year.

· Invite businesses for a career fair.

Vocational Studies Subdomain

Students use strategies for choosing and preparing for a career.

Many factors need to be considered when selecting and preparing for employment or a career path.

PL-M-4.2.1

Interest and abilities can be identified

· Evaluate a preliminary, personal career plan.

· Assess personal strengths, interests, and abilities.

· Analyze the relationship between educational achievements and career opportunities.

· Demonstrate knowledge of the interrelationship of life roles, lifestyles, and careers.

· Explore career options in different occupational clusters and geographic areas.

· Conduct a Reality Store.

· Complete an interest and ability inventory.

· Prepare a geographic map that exhibits career opportunities by location.

· Research career information using multiple resources (e.g., internet, Occupational Outlook Handbook, counselors, Occupational Outlook Quarterly).

· Develop a multimedia presentation demonstrating the relationship between postsecondary education options and salary.

Hobbies, career goal, aptitude, interests, occupational cluster.

Vocational Studies Subdomain

Students demonstrate skills and work habits that lead to success in future schooling and work.

Positive and negative work habits impact success.

· Practice mediation/facilitation skills to assist with conflict resolution and problem solving.

· Evaluate work ethics of self.

· Analyze and practice employability attributes valued by employers.

· Demonstrate behaviors which reflect concern for the safety of self and others.

· Invite a business representative to discuss how work ethics and habits effect business performance.

· Assign students to job shadow with local businesses.

· Volunteer to work with a person in a business in which the student has a career interest.

· Create a poster/display/video to exhibit safe/unsafe behaviors at school, home, or on the bus.

· Students role play conflict situations that demonstrate mediation/resolution skills.

Job shadowing, mediation, conflict resolution, problem solving, work ethics, work habits.

Vocational Studies Subdomain

Academic Expectation 2.37: Students demonstrate skills and work habits that lead to success in future schooling and work.

Organizing Standard: Special skills are needed for success in future schooling in the workplace.

Both individual and team skills (e.g., identify goals, use listening skills, follow directions, communicate orally, ask questions about tasks, use problem-solving skills) contribute to the successful completion of a task.

· Compare and analyze the effectiveness of various technology and use for a specific purpose.

· Develop a theme collage of people at work that focuses on a work skill.

· Use software to identify specific skills important to specific jobs or careers.

· Develop a collage showing how technology has changed jobs in specific areas (e.g., transportation, communication, medical).

· Use a problem solving game that uses communication skills.

· Develop a class project utilizing a spreadsheet program.

Technology, word processing, spreadsheet.

Vocational Studies Subdomain

Academic Expectation 2.38: Students demonstrate skills such as interviewing, writing resumés, and completing applications that are needed to be accepted into college or other postsecondary training or to get a job.

Organizing Standard: Special skills are needed as postsecondary opportunities are sought.

· business letter writing

· nonverbal communication skills (e.g., body language, facial expressions, posture, dress)

· verbal skills

· interview skills (e.g., friendly greeting, maintain eye contact, show enthusiasm about the job, respond positively and honestly, plan questions to ask, listen carefully, thank interviewer)

· Develop a transition plan from middle to high school.

· Develop intermediate and short-term goals.

· Evaluate personal presentation skills.

· Examine the concept of networking.

· Act as a mentor.

· Develop and use strategies to highlight personal strengths.

· Write a letter of application, using an ad taken from the newspaper.

· Invite employer representatives to conduct mock interviews.

· Student role play a job interview and videotape the process for critique.

· Practice filling out job applications.

· Develop a transition plan to be used in conjuncture with a career assessment program and a learning style assessment program. Students should identify potential careers.

· Start a career portfolio. Include any inventories, resume, letters of application, etc.

Career portfolio, letter of application, resume, mentor, networking, ICP, career plan.