Career Planning & Management Lesson Plans
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Character Needed for a Career
- 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.
Career Standards
Models ethical leadership and effective management
Manages personal career development
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- 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
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- Students will articulate the goal setting process and the benefits of goal setting.
Career Standards
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
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- Students will recognize that basic educational skills are necessary in occupations throughout the community.
Career Standards
Applies appropriate academic and technical skills
Communicates effectively and appropriately
Manages personal career development
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Goal Setting Mickey Mouse
- 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.
Career Standards
Makes sense of problems and perseveres in solving them
Manages personal career development
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- Students will identify effective strategies for goal setting and planning to promote academic and career success.
Career Standards
Uses critical thinking
Demonstrates innovation and creativity
Models ethical leadership and effective management
Manages personal career development
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- Students will research career information: job titles, education and training options, required skills, workplace environments and income.
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
Utilizes technology
Manages personal career development
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Nebraska Colleges & Universities
- Students will examine all types of Nebraska postsecondary education and career options to prepare for a career.
Career Standards
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
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Career Exploration Online
- 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
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Let's Go Exploring for Career Information
- 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
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- 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
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H3=High Skill +High Wage + High Demand
- 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
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- The student will utilize EducationQuest Look2College program to help them get on the path to college. Students will focus on:
- What do I want to be?
- How will I get there?
- How to invest in myself.
Career Standards
Applies appropriate academic and technical skills
Communicates effectively and appropriately
Contributes to employer and community success
Models ethical leadership and effective management
Utilizes technology
Manages personal career development
Attends to personal and financial well-being
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- Students will create a visual representation of goals they want to accomplish during high school.
Career Standards
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
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- 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
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- 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
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A Time Management Simulation
- Students will demonstrate strategies to effectively manage time.
- Students will infer how procrastination and distraction affect the workplace.
Career Standards
Contributes to employer and community success
Makes sense of problems and perseveres in solving them
Manages personal career development
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Blue Collar and Proud of It
- 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.
Career Standards
Applies appropriate academic and technical skills
Manages personal career development
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- The student will utilize EducationQuest’s KnowHow2GO four step program to make college a reality.
- Be a pain – in a good way. Ask adults to help guide you to college – and keep asking until you find someone who will.
- Push yourself. Take tough courses in high school – and get involved in extracurricular activities.
- Find the right fit. Explore careers that fit your interests and skills – and then research colleges that are a good fit for you!
- Put your hands on some cash. Money is available to help you pay for college, but you have to apply!
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
Utilizes technology
Manages personal career development
Attends to personal and financial well-being
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- Students will use reflective listening techniques to improve their communication skills.
Career Standards
Communicates effectively and appropriately
Manages personal career development
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- Students will analyze how they use time and how it impacts their ability to achieve goals.
Career Standards
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
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Collaborative Resume Writing
- Students will evaluate sample resumes.
- Students will create their own resume.
Career Standards
Applies appropriate academic and technical skills
Communicates effectively and appropriately
Utilizes technology
Manages personal career development
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- 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.
Career Standards
Communicates effectively and appropriately
Makes sense of problems and perseveres in solving them
Manages personal career development
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- Students will complete a generic job application and participate in mock job interviews
- Students will demonstrate interview skills and discuss cultural diversity.
Career Standards
Communicates effectively and appropriately
Models ethical leadership and effective management
Manages personal career development
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- Students will conduct phone calls to inquire about potential jobs of interest.
Career Standards
Communicates effectively and appropriately
Manages personal career development
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- 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.
Career Standards
Makes sense of problems and perseveres in solving them
Manages personal career development
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Work: Love It or Hate It:?
- 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
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- Students will hypothesis the importance of leaving a job on good terms.
- Students will write a proper letter of resignation.
Career Standards
Applies appropriate academic and technical skills
Communicates effectively and appropriately
Models ethical leadership and effective management
Manages personal career development
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- Students will demonstrate financial planning and budgeting.
- Students will chart and evaluate a cost of living plan based on their proposed salary.
Career Standards
Applies appropriate academic and technical skills
Utilizes technology
Manages personal career development
Attends to personal and financial well-being
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- 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.
Career Standards
Applies appropriate academic and technical skills
Models ethical leadership and effective management
Manages personal career development
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Writing Emails That Matter
- Students will write and send a professional email.
- Students will demonstrate writing conventions related to writing professional emails.
Career Standards
Applies appropriate academic and technical skills
Communicates effectively and appropriately
Manages personal career development
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- 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
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October 26, 2018 12:07pm