Content Area: Career Education and Consumer, Family, and Life Skills

 

Index: 9.1A Grade 8 CPI 2

 

Standard: 9.1 - Career and Technical Education

 

Strand: A - Career Awareness and Planning

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 2 - The student will outline the steps in the career planning process

 

Grade: 8

 

Sample Activities:

 

·       An individual wants to select a career pathway….in an area of interest for future employment and postsecondary and lifelong learning.

 

·       Workplace Tour

 

·       Use the career planning process model to write a diary entry to describe how the student believe a famous historical figure came to choose their career.

 

·       Invite a community member who works as a career planner to speak to the class. This could be a job counselor from an employment or temp. agency, a mentor, or a job coach. The presenter should be asked how they personalize the career planning model to assist their clients. They might use a student as a sample client.

 

·       Resources:
http://careerplanning.about.com/cs/choosingacareer/a/cp_process.htm

      or
http://www.washburn.k12.il.us/neff/careers/CareerPlanningWorksheet.htm.

 

·       Prepare an autobiography for 15 years into the student’s future. In the writing, include the steps they have taken to get to where they are in the future.