Standard 9.1: Career

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

Index: 9.1B Grade 8 CPI 5

Standard: 9.1 - Career and Technical Education

Strand: B - Employability Skills

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 5 - The student will compare and contrast possible choices based on identified/perceived strengths, goals, and interests.

Grade: 8

Sample Activities:

· 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