Lesson Plans – Grades 8,9,10

• 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.

Career Standards
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.

Career Standards
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.

Career Standards
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.

Career Standards
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.

Career Standards
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.

Career Standards
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.

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

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

Career Standards
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.

Career Standards
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. 

Career Standards
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.

Career Standards
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.

Career Standards
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.

Career Standards
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.

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

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

Career Standards
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.

Career Standards
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.

Career Standards
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.

Career Standards
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.

Career Standards
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.

Career Standards
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.

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