Lesson Plans

• Students will communicate a variety of qualities of a good friend.
• Students will demonstrate a variety of ways to be a good friend.
• Students will use strategies to build working relationships with others.

Career Standards
Applies appropriate academic and technical skills Communicates effectively and appropriately Works productively in teams and demonstrates cultural competency Manages personal career development Attends to personal and financial well-being

• Students will recognize that their actions demonstrate their character. 
• Students will state character traits they are practicing in elementary that are necessary for a future career.
• Students will explain how good character traits are important career readiness skills.

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Models ethical leadership and effective management Manages personal career development

• Students will define what a goal is. 
• Students will identify how to work hard and use strategies to achieve goals. 
• Students will explain how goals are necessary to reach career goals.

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Applies appropriate academic and technical skills Communicates effectively and appropriately Contributes to employer and community success Uses critical thinking Demonstrates innovation and creativity Manages personal career development Attends to personal and financial well-being

• Students will explore likes and dislikes.

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Communicates effectively and appropriately Manages personal career development

• Students will describe how showing responsible behaviors, builds trustworthy relationships.
• Students will predict consequences of not demonstrating responsible behaviors.
• Students will identify age-appropriate responsibilities.
• Students will explore strategies that can help them to be more responsible.

Career Standards
Applies appropriate academic and technical skills Contributes to employer and community success Works productively in teams and demonstrates cultural competency Manages personal career development Attends to personal and financial well-being

• Students will relate the concepts of cooperation and teamwork.
• Students will demonstrate cooperation by working together for a common cause and sharing the benefits.
• Students will interpret how it feels to help someone and to have someone help them.
• Students will assess the importance of communication when cooperating with others.

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Communicates effectively and appropriately Works productively in teams and demonstrates cultural competency Manages personal career development

• Students will articulate the goal setting process and the benefits of goal setting.

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Applies appropriate academic and technical skills Communicates effectively and appropriately Makes sense of problems and perseveres in solving them Uses critical thinking Works productively in teams and demonstrates cultural competency Manages personal career development

• Students will recognize that basic educational skills are necessary in occupations throughout the community.

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Applies appropriate academic and technical skills Communicates effectively and appropriately Manages personal career development

• Students will explore different jobs throughout the community.

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Communicates effectively and appropriately Contributes to employer and community success Demonstrates innovation and creativity

• Students will identify tasks they like and dislike.
• Students will associate that some people pick jobs because they include doing tasks they like.

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Contributes to employer and community success Uses critical thinking Demonstrates innovation and creativity Works productively in teams and demonstrates cultural competency Manages personal career development

• Students will explore varieties of career options and skills or tools needed for those careers.

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Applies appropriate academic and technical skills Communicates effectively and appropriately Contributes to employer and community success Uses critical thinking Demonstrates innovation and creativity Models ethical leadership and effective management Manages personal career development

• Students will brainstorm a list of school and community workers and match their jobs to the NCE career fields.

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Communicates effectively and appropriately Contributes to employer and community success Uses critical thinking Demonstrates innovation and creativity Manages personal career development

• Students will recognize different STEM career choices in the community.

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Applies appropriate academic and technical skills Communicates effectively and appropriately Utilizes technology Manages personal career development

• Students will identify activities and interests related to careers.

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Communicates effectively and appropriately Makes sense of problems and perseveres in solving them Uses critical thinking Demonstrates innovation and creativity Models ethical leadership and effective management Works productively in teams and demonstrates cultural competency

• Students will identify strategies for goal setting and planning that will lead to academic and career success. 
• Students will examine how current decisions affects their future career.

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Makes sense of problems and perseveres in solving them Manages personal career development

• Students will explore places of employment in the community.
• Students will describe why businesses are helpful to a community.

Career Standards
Applies appropriate academic and technical skills Communicates effectively and appropriately Contributes to employer and community success Makes sense of problems and perseveres in solving them Uses critical thinking Models ethical leadership and effective management Manages personal career development Attends to personal and financial well-being

• Students will recall why it is important to be calm when trying to resolve conflict.
• Students will describe how resolving conflicts requires one to be open-minded and to listen to the other person’s side.
• Student will evaluate why compromise is a good strategy to resolving conflicts.
• Students will demonstrate “I” statements rather than “You” statements when discussing a problem.
• Students will demonstrate deep breathing to calm and to control their emotions.

Career Standards
Communicates effectively and appropriately Works productively in teams and demonstrates cultural competency Manages personal career development

• Students will interpret the meaning of respect.
• Students will cite examples of respectful behavior.
• Students will give examples of respect at home, at school, in the community and at a job in the future.

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Communicates effectively and appropriately Models ethical leadership and effective management Works productively in teams and demonstrates cultural competency Manages personal career development Attends to personal and financial well-being

• Students will identify effective strategies for goal setting and planning to promote academic and career success.

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Uses critical thinking Demonstrates innovation and creativity Models ethical leadership and effective management Manages personal career development

• Students will identify activities and interests related to careers.

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Communicates effectively and appropriately Uses critical thinking Demonstrates innovation and creativity Manages personal career development

• Students will recognize the behaviors of a responsible student.
• Students will evaluate the importance of being responsible.

Career Standards
Communicates effectively and appropriately Makes sense of problems and perseveres in solving them Uses critical thinking Models ethical leadership and effective management Works productively in teams and demonstrates cultural competency Manages personal career development Attends to personal and financial well-being

• Students will recognize the behaviors of a responsible student.
• Students will evaluate the importance of being responsible.
• Students will identify actions at school, at home, or in the community that would result in negative consequences.
• Students will explain an appropriate way to accept responsibility for their actions and/or respond to a consequence that is blamed on them.
• Students will anticipate what could happen if no consequences were attributed to inappropriate behaviors.
• The student will generate examples of how to be responsible to self, family friends, and the community.
• Students will evaluate how taking responsibility at a job in the workplace is important to career success.

Career Standards
Communicates effectively and appropriately Contributes to employer and community success Uses critical thinking Models ethical leadership and effective management Works productively in teams and demonstrates cultural competency Manages personal career development Attends to personal and financial well-being

• Students will identify titles of careers, occupations and postsecondary education and training options and/or career readiness terms.

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Manages personal career development

• Students will research career information: job titles, education and training options, required skills, workplace environments and income.

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Applies appropriate academic and technical skills Communicates effectively and appropriately Contributes to employer and community success Makes sense of problems and perseveres in solving them Uses critical thinking Utilizes technology Manages personal career development

• Students will generalize how working with others can make a task easier.
• Students will demonstrate skills needed to be a good teammate.
• Students will point out jobs and future careers that require people to work as a team.

Career Standards
Contributes to employer and community success Uses critical thinking Models ethical leadership and effective management Works productively in teams and demonstrates cultural competency Manages personal career development Attends to personal and financial well-being

• Students will self-reflect about their own career skills before and after the lesson (pre-test and post-test). 
• Students will label skills used in both college and careers. 
• Students will describe skills in their own words and role play skills. 
• Students will match different knowledge and skills needed for different careers.

Career Standards
Applies appropriate academic and technical skills Communicates effectively and appropriately Contributes to employer and community success Demonstrates innovation and creativity Works productively in teams and demonstrates cultural competency Manages personal career development Attends to personal and financial well-being

• The student will explore activities to participate in based on strengths and interests.

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Applies appropriate academic and technical skills Communicates effectively and appropriately Utilizes technology Manages personal career development Attends to personal and financial well-being

• Students will explore a wide variety of careers titles and career information.

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Applies appropriate academic and technical skills Communicates effectively and appropriately Manages personal career development

• Students will become aware of how their background and experiences affect the way they view the world and interact with other people.
• Students will identify and practice the kind, careful, and responsible behaviors of a “Good Digital Citizen.”

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Communicates effectively and appropriately Contributes to employer and community success Uses critical thinking Utilizes technology Manages personal career development Attends to personal and financial well-being

• Students will identify examples of positive and negative peer pressure.
• Students will develop strategies to resist negative peer pressure.
• Students will provide examples of how to negotiating peer pressure in various situations at school, in the community and at workplaces.

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Applies appropriate academic and technical skills Communicates effectively and appropriately Makes sense of problems and perseveres in solving them Uses critical thinking Models ethical leadership and effective management Works productively in teams and demonstrates cultural competency Manages personal career development Attends to personal and financial well-being

• Students will examine all types of Nebraska postsecondary education and  career options to prepare for a career.

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Communicates effectively and appropriately Uses critical thinking Works productively in teams and demonstrates cultural competency Utilizes technology Manages personal career development Attends to personal and financial well-being

• Students will define the word conflict and the word resolution.
• Students will identify a conflict when they encounter one.
• Students will list different strategies used to resolve a conflict.
• Students will recognize conflicts can arise at school, during activities at school or in the community and at workplaces.
• Students will justify why it is important to be prepared with conflict resolution skills for college and career readiness.

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Communicates effectively and appropriately Makes sense of problems and perseveres in solving them Models ethical leadership and effective management Works productively in teams and demonstrates cultural competency Manages personal career development Attends to personal and financial well-being

• Students will categorize occupations or job titles in different career fields. 
• Students will identify an occupation or job title of interest and research education, skills, tools and workplaces for that type of career.

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Applies appropriate academic and technical skills Communicates effectively and appropriately Contributes to employer and community success Uses critical thinking Demonstrates innovation and creativity Manages personal career development

• Students will explore a wide variety of career options in career fields/cluster options available to them. 
• Students will evaluate career information to assure they are using reliable and valid sources of career information.
• Students will identify jobs for each career field that appear to be most interesting to him or herself at this time.

Career Standards
Applies appropriate academic and technical skills Communicates effectively and appropriately Contributes to employer and community success Uses critical thinking Demonstrates innovation and creativity Models ethical leadership and effective management Works productively in teams and demonstrates cultural competency Utilizes technology Manages personal career development

• Students will use the results of an informal interest inventory to help explore career strengths and interests.

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Applies appropriate academic and technical skills Communicates effectively and appropriately Uses critical thinking Manages personal career development

• Students will outline multiple careers related to the production of different final products.

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Uses critical thinking Manages personal career development

• Students will discover personal interests, career interests and aspirations. 
• Students will compare and contrast how education and training decisions may affect career choices. 
• Students will demonstrate how altering education and training plans changes career options and opportunities.

Career Standards
Applies appropriate academic and technical skills Communicates effectively and appropriately Contributes to employer and community success Makes sense of problems and perseveres in solving them Uses critical thinking Works productively in teams and demonstrates cultural competency Utilizes technology Manages personal career development

• Student will explore and evaluate their career goal. 
• Students will list high priority questions to ask about deciding career choices and goals. 
• Students will conduct informational interviews adults in the workforce to learn about their career development process and present the findings. 
• Students will create a business card to represent himself or herself.

Career Standards
Applies appropriate academic and technical skills Communicates effectively and appropriately Contributes to employer and community success Uses critical thinking Demonstrates innovation and creativity Manages personal career development Attends to personal and financial well-being

• Students will define respect.
• Students will generate examples of ways we show respect at school, at home, and in the community.
• Students will predict consequence of not being respectful at school, at home, or in the community.
• Students will identify why respect is important to career readiness and being successful at different jobs in a variety of workplaces.

Career Standards
Communicates effectively and appropriately Contributes to employer and community success Uses critical thinking Models ethical leadership and effective management Works productively in teams and demonstrates cultural competency Manages personal career development Attends to personal and financial well-being

• Students will evaluate personal and ethical skills needed to work with a diverse group of people. 
• Students will analyze what skills are effective for teamwork and why teamwork is important at school and at workplaces. 
• Students will self-reflect on their own teamwork abilities.

Career Standards
Communicates effectively and appropriately Contributes to employer and community success Makes sense of problems and perseveres in solving them Uses critical thinking Models ethical leadership and effective management Works productively in teams and demonstrates cultural competency Manages personal career development Attends to personal and financial well-being

• Students will use the results of an informal career assessment to gain additional information and considerations for their own career decision-making.

Career Standards
Applies appropriate academic and technical skills Uses critical thinking Utilizes technology Manages personal career development

• Students will research a job/career to determine it's wage, labor market demand and skill requirements in the State of Nebraska.

Career Standards
Applies appropriate academic and technical skills Communicates effectively and appropriately Contributes to employer and community success Uses critical thinking Utilizes technology Manages personal career development Attends to personal and financial well-being

• Students will formulate a future career vision with the use of imagination.
• Students will write and share their experience and future career vision with others.

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Applies appropriate academic and technical skills Communicates effectively and appropriately Demonstrates innovation and creativity Manages personal career development

• Students will categorize varieties of career opportunities in Ag, Food & Natural Resources career cluster.

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Manages personal career development

• Students will  identify varieties of career opportunities and job titles in the Architecture and Construction career cluster.

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Manages personal career development

• Students will identify varieties of job titles for career opportunities in the Business Management and Administration career cluster.

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Manages personal career development

• Students will identify career opportunities and job titles within the Communication and Information Systems career cluster.

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Manages personal career development

• Students will identify varieties of job titles for career opportunities in the Education and Training career cluster.

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Manages personal career development

• Students will identify different job titles to introduce career opportunities in the Education and Training career cluster.
• Students will list job titles of workers they see in their school belonging to other career clusters outside of Education and Training.

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Communicates effectively and appropriately Manages personal career development

• Students will examine workers and job titles within the Finance career cluster.
  
  

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Manages personal career development

• Students will identify career opportunities and job titles within the Health Science career cluster.

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Manages personal career development

• Students will identify career opportunities and job titles within the Hospitality and Tourism career cluster.

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Manages personal career development

• Students will identify career opportunities and job titles within the Human Services career cluster.

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Manages personal career development

• Students will identify career opportunities and examine products and apps developed by workers connected to the Information Technology career cluster.

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Manages personal career development

• Students will identify career opportunities and job titles within the Law, Public Safety, Corrections, and Security career cluster.

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Manages personal career development

• Students will identify career opportunities and job titles within the Manufacturing career cluster.

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Manages personal career development

• Students will identify career opportunities and job titles of the Marketing career cluster.

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Manages personal career development

• Students will identify career opportunities and job titles within the TD&L career cluster.

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Manages personal career development

• Students will create a visual representation of goals they want to accomplish during high school.

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Applies appropriate academic and technical skills Communicates effectively and appropriately Demonstrates innovation and creativity Manages personal career development Attends to personal and financial well-being

• Students will explore careers that utilize STEM-Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics  and can be found in all of the career clusters.

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Manages personal career development

• Students will outline essential information needed on a resume.
• Students will create a resume.

Career Standards
Applies appropriate academic and technical skills Communicates effectively and appropriately Contributes to employer and community success Makes sense of problems and perseveres in solving them Uses critical thinking Demonstrates innovation and creativity Models ethical leadership and effective management Utilizes technology Manages personal career development

• Students will appraise their attitudes toward punctuality.
• Students will analyze the importance of being on time and showing up to work.

Career Standards
Communicates effectively and appropriately Contributes to employer and community success Manages personal career development Attends to personal and financial well-being

• Students will use conflict resolution strategies to mediate interpersonal conflict.
• Students will use conflict resolution strategies at school and during workplace experiences.

Career Standards
Communicates effectively and appropriately Works productively in teams and demonstrates cultural competency Manages personal career development Attends to personal and financial well-being

• Students will use an effective relaxation technique to cope with stress.
• Students will recognize and document their own indicators of stress.

Career Standards
Makes sense of problems and perseveres in solving them Manages personal career development Attends to personal and financial well-being

• Students will examine how individual priorities and purposes influence career choices (career values).
• Students will synthesize how careers choices may represent different things to different people to achieve career values.

Career Standards
Applies appropriate academic and technical skills Uses critical thinking Demonstrates innovation and creativity Utilizes technology Manages personal career development

• Students will recognize the impact of peer pressure. 
• Student will identify strategies to resist negative peer pressure.

Career Standards
Communicates effectively and appropriately Works productively in teams and demonstrates cultural competency Manages personal career development

• Students will demonstrate effective stress management techniques. 
• Students will learn how to identify different kinds of stress and how to cope while at school and in the workplace.

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Manages personal career development Attends to personal and financial well-being

• Students will creatively express themselves through music and art activities.
• Students will make tangible connections between their favorite songs and their own personality traits or life events.
• Students will orally present their soundtracks to the class and explain these connections.

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Communicates effectively and appropriately Demonstrates innovation and creativity Manages personal career development

• Students will plan future goals through self-reflective writing.

Career Standards
Communicates effectively and appropriately Uses critical thinking Manages personal career development Attends to personal and financial well-being

• Students will demonstrate strategies to effectively manage time.
• Students will infer how procrastination and distraction affect the workplace.

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Contributes to employer and community success Makes sense of problems and perseveres in solving them Manages personal career development

• Students will identify categories of jobs known as “blue collar” occupations.
• Students will assess the opportunities and advantages of these types of occupations as viable careers in the current labor market.
• Students will investigate labor market information and demand for occupations.

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Applies appropriate academic and technical skills Manages personal career development

• Students will evaluate how their family and/or extended family may or may not be an influence on their own career choices and decisions.
• Students will conduct interviews to gather information regarding specific careers within the family and/or extended family structure.

Career Standards
Communicates effectively and appropriately Uses critical thinking Manages personal career development Attends to personal and financial well-being

• Students will use creativity to express self-awareness.
• Student will present a visual product to the class.

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Communicates effectively and appropriately Demonstrates innovation and creativity Manages personal career development Attends to personal and financial well-being

• Students will demonstrate verbal communication consistent with their nonverbal communication.
• Students will predict potential communication problems when verbal and nonverbal communication does not align.
• Students will evaluate the relationship between the verbal and nonverbal communication of others.

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Communicates effectively and appropriately Manages personal career development

• Students will use reflective listening techniques to improve their communication skills. 

Career Standards
Communicates effectively and appropriately Manages personal career development

• Students will demonstrate awareness of the potential effects of social class.
• Students will evaluate the impact of cultural knowledge, cultural awareness and tolerance on career success.
• Students will consider the importance of civic duty/responsibility in their own community.

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Works productively in teams and demonstrates cultural competency Manages personal career development Attends to personal and financial well-being

• Students will outline different categories of stereotypes. 
• Students will anticipate and/or describe how stereotypes affect people.

Career Standards
Contributes to employer and community success Works productively in teams and demonstrates cultural competency Manages personal career development Attends to personal and financial well-being

• Students will identify the sources of stress in their lives.
• Students will identify the ways that they can cope with stress.
• Students will increase college and career readiness by expanding their strategies to cope with stress in school and work.

Career Standards
Communicates effectively and appropriately Makes sense of problems and perseveres in solving them Works productively in teams and demonstrates cultural competency Manages personal career development Attends to personal and financial well-being

• Students will explore their personal beliefs and values that guide their lives and ethics. 
• Students will develop an awareness of the beliefs and values of their peers.

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Models ethical leadership and effective management Manages personal career development Attends to personal and financial well-being

• Students will analyze how they use time and how it impacts their ability to achieve goals.

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Applies appropriate academic and technical skills Contributes to employer and community success Uses critical thinking Models ethical leadership and effective management Manages personal career development Attends to personal and financial well-being

• Students will compare differences and similarities between self-perceptions and perceptions from others.

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Uses critical thinking Manages personal career development Attends to personal and financial well-being

• Students will evaluate sample resumes.
• Students will create their own resume.

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Applies appropriate academic and technical skills Communicates effectively and appropriately Utilizes technology Manages personal career development

• Students will present a visual product or display of the decisions and strategies needed to achieve future educational and career goals.
• Students will demonstrate how to overcome barriers in their lives to attain future success. 

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Communicates effectively and appropriately Makes sense of problems and perseveres in solving them Manages personal career development

• Students will compare and contrast their own values about friendship to those of a peer.

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Communicates effectively and appropriately Manages personal career development Attends to personal and financial well-being

• Students will complete a generic job application and participate in mock job interviews 
• Students will demonstrate interview skills and discuss cultural diversity.

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Communicates effectively and appropriately Models ethical leadership and effective management Manages personal career development

• Students will conduct phone calls to inquire about potential jobs of interest.

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Communicates effectively and appropriately Manages personal career development

• Students will summarize the meaning of barriers and resources through the analysis of a role model in their own lives who experienced and overcame major disadvantages/hardships.

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Makes sense of problems and perseveres in solving them Manages personal career development

• Students will explore their own work values, priorities and interests.

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Communicates effectively and appropriately Demonstrates innovation and creativity Manages personal career development

• Students will analyze ways in which their family history, culture, ethnicity, and environment has helped shape who they are today.
• Students will reflect and judge the amount of influence the past has their current goals for the future.

Career Standards
Demonstrates innovation and creativity Models ethical leadership and effective management Utilizes technology Manages personal career development Attends to personal and financial well-being

• Students will interview adults employed in the world of work. 
• Students will compare and contrast aspects working adult stories. 
• Students will develop a mission statement based on their reflections of the stories.

Career Standards
Applies appropriate academic and technical skills Uses critical thinking Manages personal career development

• Students will summarize how fears can inhibit their decisions about career, and even their willingness to explore it. 
• Students will analyze how their values and career barriers interact. 
• Students will discover that a difficult economy can make it hard to negotiate.

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Manages personal career development Attends to personal and financial well-being

• Students will hypothesis the importance of leaving a job on good terms.
• Students will write a proper letter of resignation.

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Applies appropriate academic and technical skills Communicates effectively and appropriately Models ethical leadership and effective management Manages personal career development

• Students will demonstrate financial planning and budgeting. 
• Students will chart and evaluate a cost of living plan based on their proposed salary.

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Applies appropriate academic and technical skills Utilizes technology Manages personal career development Attends to personal and financial well-being

• Students will examine their short and long-term goals and the assets they might have in their lives that would help them achieve these goals.
• Students will write a short narrative explaining how they intend to connect their personal assets to goal achievement.

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Applies appropriate academic and technical skills Models ethical leadership and effective management Manages personal career development

• Students will write and send a professional email. 
• Students will demonstrate writing conventions related to writing professional emails.

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Applies appropriate academic and technical skills Communicates effectively and appropriately Manages personal career development

• Students will compare the relationship between school habits and work habits 
• Students will illustrate the relationship of their own values and beliefs related to school and career success.

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Applies appropriate academic and technical skills Makes sense of problems and perseveres in solving them Uses critical thinking Manages personal career development

• The student will utilize EducationQuest Apply2College resources to help complete college applications for everyone in senior class.

Career Standards
Applies appropriate academic and technical skills Communicates effectively and appropriately Uses critical thinking Models ethical leadership and effective management Utilizes technology Manages personal career development