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Careers Curriculum with Strategies Course: Careers (FCS) |
| UNIT TITLE | DESCRIPTION | LENGTH | STANDARD(S) TAUGHT | CROSSWALK |
| Career Awareness | Develop an awareness of personal abilities,
skills, interests, and motivations Holland Party Game; Film: What Would You Be Good At?; DoWhatYouAre Personality Test; Film: Career Search: Taking the First Step – personality section and preferences sections; Kuder interest inventory, skills assessment, and values inventory |
8 days | FCS 8.10.1
(A) *SC K-12.1.1 |
LA
8.1.1 LA 8.1.6 LA 8.2.2 |
| Employment Readiness | - Learn how to write a job application
and resume Film: Career Search: Taking the First Step – skills section; job application; resume - Understand the importance of responsibility, dependability, punctuality, integrity, and effort in the workplace Film: When Can You Start?; Manner Monday lessons; integrated daily lessons, ex. following instructions |
5 days | FCS 8.10.1
(C) *SC K-12.1.1 |
LA
8.1.1 LA 8.1.2 LA 8.2.1 LA 8.2.3 LA 8.3.1 |
| Resource Management | Explore occupation, income, and lifestyle
in the preparation of a monthly budget Real Game activities: Wish List (dreaming for the future-material possessions), What’s My Line (getting a job), Reality Check (preparing a monthly budget with income from job) |
4 days | FCS 8.6.1 (F), FCS 8.10.1 (A | LA
8.1.5 LA 8.1.6 |
| Career Information | - Identify personal skills, interests,
and abilities and relate them to current career choice Choice Chart (identification of occupation choices from various assessment and personal interest) - Use research and information resources to obtain career information Research Unit: flexible in design, students may research a few occupations in-depth or several occupations to increase choices Primary resources: Encyclopedia of Careers, Chronicle Guidance Career Briefs, Occupation Outlook Handbook, Internet, Community College Speaker, NNAHEC Speaker, Military Speaker - Learn to use the Internet to access career planning information Kuder Career Planning System and links, Occupational Outlook Handbook, O*Net, KiwiCareers, New York CareerZone, Nebraska Workforce Development, Military Careers, Virtual Job Shadow, Careervoyages, Careerclusters, acteonline |
8 days | FCS 8.3.1 (A) *SC K-12.1.2 |
LA
8.1.1 LA 8.1.2 LA 8.1.5 LA 8.1.6 LA 8.2.4 |
| Career Goals | - Demonstrate awareness of the education
and training needed to achieve career goals Community College Speaker, NNAHEC Speaker, Military Speaker, high school graduation requirements, college entrance requirements - Select course work that is related to career interests Prepare 9-12 course plan and activities Conference with teacher regarding 9-12 course plan - Maintain a career planning portfolio Create career portfolio with test results, resume, 4-year plan and occupations of interest for use at school 9-12 Create career portfolio for use at home |
5 days | FCS 8.10.1
(D) *SC K-12.1.2 |
LA
8.1.1 LA 8.1.5 |
| Public Speaking | - Make an oral presentation that demonstrates
appropriate consideration of audience, purpose, and information to
be conveyed Write and present a speech to the class on favorite occupation - Design a multi-media presentation to support the oral presentation Design and present a PowerPoint during the speech to visually enhance the presentation (Conferences with teacher regarding 9-12 course plan during PowerPoint work time) |
10 days | LA 8.3.2 | LA
8.3.2 LA 8.2.1 LA 8.2.2 LA 8.2.3 LA 8.2.4 LA 8.3.3 |
| * Nebraska Standards for School Counseling |