Career Pathway Development Project
Take My Picture
(B1 Part 1)|
Teacher Guide

Lesson Title: Take My Picture

Pathway (s) Address: ALL

Submitted by:Sharon McMullen

Date:  June, 2000

Ages:  11-14

Recommended: Online and Teacher directed

Time frame: One or two class periods   

Alaska State Content Standards

English/Language Arts
B. A student should be a competent and thoughtful reader, listener, and viewer of literature, technical materials, and a variety of other information.
C. A student should be able to identify and select from multiple strategies in order to complete projects independently and cooperatively.
D. A student should be able to think logically and reflectively in order to present and explain positions based on relevant and reliable information.

Technology

A. A student should be able to operate technology-based tools.
C. A student should be able to use technology to explore ideas, solve problems, and derive meaning.

Employability / (Scans)

B. A student should be able to identify career interests and plan for career options.

Alaska State Performance Standards

Reading, Writing and Math (pdf files)

A student who meets the content standard should:

A.7. communicate ideas using varied tools of electronic technology;

B.3. relate what the student views, reads, and hears to practical purposes in the student's own life, to the world outside, and to other texts and experiences.

C.1. make choices about a project after examining a range of possibilities;
C.2. organize a project by understanding directions; making and keeping deadlines; and seeking, selecting, and using relevant resources;
C.3. select and use appropriate decision-making processes;

D.1. develop a position by reflecting on personal experiences, prior knowledge, and new information;
formulating and refining questions; identifying a variety of pertinent sources of information; analyzing and synthesizing information; and determining an author's purposes;

Employability

A student who meets this standard should:

B.1 Identify and appreciate personal interests, aptitudes, abilities, and priorities;
B.2 Identify possible career options, considering both employment and self employment and understand how changes in the workplace affect career choice;

Overview:


Students will "take a picture" of where they are in their present thinking and decision making. Using a website, they will assess their personal skills, values, character and interests. The website will match their assessment to occupational sectors. Students will review the sectors and identify pathways that match their assessment. Students will then compare their assessment to the attributes and skills needed for an occupation in the Engineering and Industrial Technology pathway.

Objectives:

Student will:

Resources/Materials:


Your Future at Work
This site has link to values, interests, skill and character surveys. 
http://www.careerccc.org

Vocabulary:  
Interpersonal, verbal, intrapersonal, values, innovative, occupational sectors, pathways

Classroom Setting:
Students work independently on a website.

Activities:
Link to student work page     or
Teacher Copy of student work page below:

Task 1

Open the website at
http://www.careerccc.org

Choose Section 2 "Looking Into Your Future.

Scroll to the Self-Assessment Quiz.

Complete the assessments by following the directions on these steps:

1          "Clues to who you are

2                    "What Turns Your Crank?

3                    "Your Strengths       No One is Perfect, but Everyone is Good at Something

4                    "Good Skills Never Go Out of Style

5                    "Your Character      What Makes You Tick?

6                    "Your Steps to Success      Sky,s the Limit

7                    "Your Results      The News from Your World

 

After you submit your responses, it will automatically tabulate the results.  Step will give you a summary of your responses and a picture of your strengths, character, skills, values, etc.

  Task 2

Use the chart "Comparing my Personal Pathway" to compare the skills needed for an occupation from the Engineering and Industrial Technology pathway. List the skills and interests for yourself from the results of the self-assessment in Task 1.

 

Engineering & Industrial Technology

My Personal Assessment

 

 

Figuring out how things work

 

Operating or fixing machines

 

Building things or helping others build things

 

Working with wood, metal, or plastic materials

 

Drawing detailed pictures or objects

 

Doing math and science assignments

 

Collecting rocks

 

Sorting things by shape, color, or size

 

Operating computers

 

What similarities do you see?

What differences do you see?

Is this a pathway you might like to pursue? Why or why not?

Community Connections:
If you are interested in more information on the Engineering & Industrial Technology pathway or any other pathway:

Visit a job site in that pathways or

Invite a speaker from the pathways or

Visit a website in the pathway
http://cbweb9p.collegeboard.org/career/bin/career.pl

http://jobsmart.org/tools/career/spec-car.htm

 

 

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