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

 

Index: 9.1A Grade 12 CPI 2

 

Standard: 9.1 - Career and Technical Education

 

Strand: A - Career Awareness and Planning

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 2 - The student will evaluate academic and career skills needed in various career clusters.

 

Grade: 12

 

Sample Activities:

 

·        A school wide unity day to celebrate diversity is being planned by the school. As part of the celebration, a mini-Olympics will be held. A plan needs to be developed and implemented to include opening exercises, main events, and closing ceremonies. A small budget has been allocated but will need to be supplemented.

 

·        Climatic conditions have changed in the twenty-first century. Research scientists are looking at the oceans to create habitable communities. Create an underwater community.

 

·        Earth is becoming uninhabitable.

 

·        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.

 

·        Current transportation systems consume natural resources and add to pollution and congestion.

 

·        Muffin Madness

 

·        Musicians, A Study of Success and Failure

 

·        Develop and work in a school based enterprise such as a school store, bake shop, bagel express etc.

 

·        Job shadow a professional and report to the class about the experience.

 

·        Participate in the FCCLA National Programs:
A. Power of One, Working on Working.
B. Career Connection.
C. Leaders at Work
 

      Participate in FCCLA STAR events such as Career Investigation, Culinary Arts, Entrepreneurship, Hospitality, Job Interview, and/or Parliamentary Procedure.

 

·        Prepare a multimedia presentation to present to the class on various careers.
See the following websites for information: www.njpin.state.nj.us  (information on careers and jobs, Occupational Outlook Handbook);
National Life Work Center, http://lifework.ca ;
FCCLA (Family, Career and Community Leaders of America): http://www.fcclainc.org ;
Career City, http://www.careercitiy.com;
CHOICES, http://www.choicesedgroup.org/;
Career Mosaic, http://wwwcareermosaic.com;
Career Clusters: http://www.careerclusters.org/16clusters.htm; and
The Real Game, http://www.realgame.com.

 

Resources:

·        http://www.uen.org/Lessonplan/LPview.cgi?core=20;   

·        http://www.uen.org/Lessonplan/LPview.cgi?core=8