Curriculum Framework: Careers

 
EXPLORATION OF CAREER OPTIONS PERSONAL TALENTS AND SKILLS FOR SUCCESS TECHNOLOGY SKILLS
8th Relate personal responsibility, good work habits, teamwork, and adaptability to seeking and obtaining jobs. Relate own decisions to education, training, and career goals. Utilize a database program.

A. Exploration of Career Options

    1. Standard: The student will relate personal responsibility, good work habits, teamwork, and adaptability to seeking and obtaining jobs.
    2. Assessment: Create a project to display the connections between personal attributes and cooperative skills in relation to future success in the workplace.S
    3. Rubric:
MEETS STANDARD EXCEEDS STANDARD EXEPLARY
 
  • The assessment satisfies all the Meets Standard criteria. Additionally,
  • The assessment satisfies all the Meets Standard and Exceeds Standard criteria. Additionally,
  • Project explains how personal attributes and decisions lead to career goals.
  • Project uses examples to compare how personal attributes and decisions lead to career goals.
  • Project provides creative insight and analysis of how personal attributes and decisions lead to career goals.

B. Personal Talents and Skills for Success

    1. Standard: A The student will relate own decisions to education, training, and career goals.
    2. Assessment: Create a project to display connections between personal decision and the achievement of career goals.
    3. Rubric:
MEETS STANDARD EXCEEDS STANDARD EXEPLARY
 
  • The assessment satisfies all the Meets Standard criteria. Additionally,
  • The assessment satisfies all the Meets Standard and Exceeds Standard criteria. Additionally,
  • Project explains how personal attributes and decisions lead to career goals.
  • Project uses examples to illustrate how both positive and negative attributes and decisions can impact career goals.

C. Technology Skills

    1. Standard: The student will utilize a database program.
    2. Assessment: Create a database using a tutorial software program.
    3. Rubric:
MEETS STANDARD EXCEEDS STANDARD EXEPLARY
 
  • The assessment satisfies all the Meets Standard criteria. Additionally,
  • The assessment satisfies all the Meets Standard and Exceeds Standard criteria. Additionally,
  • The student completes a tutorial spreadsheet.
  • The student creates a database using own data.
 

SUPPORT SKILLS

EXPLORATION OF CAREER OPTIONS

    The student will relate personal responsibility, good work habits, teamwork, and adaptability to seeking and obtaining jobs.
      -work cooperatively with diverse groups
      -complete a job application
      -role-play skills and attitudes appropriate to a job interview
      -identify the variety of academic and vocational programs offered at the high school level
      -relate available high school programs to personal talents, skills, and goals
      -evaluate the importance of growth, change, and continued learning
      -determine the amount of education needed for different occupations
      -participate in a Career Fair
      -participate in a Junior Achievement program

PERSONAL TALENTS AND SKILLS FOR SUCCESS

    The student will relate own decisions to education, training, and career goals.
      -organize ideas and communicate orally
      -interpret and communicate information
      -work cooperatively with a diverse group
      -practice appropriate decision-making skills:
        -specify goals and constraints
        -generate alternatives
        -consider risks
        -anticipate impact of decisions on self and on others
        -evaluate and choose the best alternative
      -model leadership skills:
      -communicate ideas to justify position
      -persuade and convince others
      -challenge responsibly the existing procedures and policies
      -describe the relationship of beliefs, attitudes, interests, and abilities to occupations
      -trace how career development is a continuous process characterized by a series of choices
      -list advantages and disadvantages of various secondary and post-secondary programs for the attainment of goals

TECHNOLOGY SKILLS

    The student will utilize a database program.
      Keyboarding
        -use appropriate keyboarding skills:
          -combination operational keys (Control, Alt, and Shift)
          -operational keys (insert, page down, delete, end, etc.)
          -number pad
      Word-Processing
        -use appropriate word-processing skills:
          -pull-down menu bar
          -file
          -edit (cut, copy, and paste)
          -view
          -insert
          -format
          -tools
          -window
          -help
      Database
        -identify the functions and components of a database program
      Utilization of CMI (Computer Manipulated Instruction) and CAI (Computer Aided Instruction)
        -manipulate appropriate software:
          -Jostens
          -Edunetics
          -Oregon Trail
          -Crosscountry USA
          -Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego?
          -PC USA
          -Oregon Trail
          -Linkway
          -New Print Shop
          -Children's Writing and Publishing Center (English and Spanish)

 

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