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

 

Index: 9.1A Grade 8 CPI 4

 

Standard: 9.1 - Career and Technical Education

 

Strand: A - Career Awareness and Planning

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 4 - The student will analyze personal interests, abilities, and skills through various measures including self assessments.

 

Grade: 8

 

Sample Activities:

 

·       Statistics indicate that drugs have an impact on worker productivity and safety. Develop a program or campaign focusing on the reduction of substance abuse in the community and in the workplace.

 

·       The town has decided to build a new school. Prepare a presentation to convince the local board of education.

 

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

 

·       Although New Jersey is well known as the Garden State, it certainly could be recognized as the Invention State. We now live in an increasing complex "global society" with demands for increased invention, design, and manufacturing to make people's lives and work more productive while meeting personal and family needs

 

·       Our Town

 

·       Workplace Tour

 

·   Students write an autobiography to identify personal qualities and skills that might be of interest to an employer.  Information that might be included is

    ·    Name of student: __________

    ·    In school, I enjoy __________

    ·    A school subject I excel at is _________

    ·    Some skills and talents are _________

    ·    I am a person who ____________

    ·    Something that is important to me is ___________

    ·       For recreation, I enjoy ___________