Career Exploration Lesson Plans

• 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.

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

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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 Models ethical leadership and effective management 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

• 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 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.

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

• 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.

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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 Works productively in teams and demonstrates cultural competency Utilizes technology 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

• 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 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 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.

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Applies appropriate academic and technical skills Uses critical thinking Demonstrates innovation and creativity Utilizes technology 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.

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Communicates effectively and appropriately Uses critical thinking 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 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