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

 

Index: 9.1B Grade 12 CPI 1

 

Standard: 9.1 - Career and Technical Education

 

Strand: B - Employability Skills

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 1 - The student will assess personal qualities that are needed to obtain and retain a job related to career clusters.

 

Grade: 12

 

Sample Activities:

 

·       Statistics indicate that drugs have an impact on worker productivity and safety. As CEO, develop a program focusing on the reduction of substance abuse 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.

 

·       The behavior of sports stars and movie personalities has been called into question. Develop a system for identifying and promoting positive role models in the community.

 

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

 

·       Accessible Public Transportation

 

·       I’ve Got a Problem-Conflict in the Workplace

 

·       Select a famous musician (alive or dead) that was able to maintain success for the rest of his or her life. Select another famous musician who reached success but was unable to sustain it throughout his/her lifetime. Write a one-page essay comparing and contrasting the personal qualities of the two musicians. Why was one musician able to maintain popularity and continue to produce music while the other musician was not? Introduce this activity at the beginning of sophomore year.

 

·       Students learn definition of values and difference between a personal value and a work value. Students will explain the importance of developing a value system, and how it relates to personal behaviors and qualities. Teacher will administer a values inventory. Students will choose from a variety of listed values. They will be asked to select the top three values that are the most important to them. They will put these three values together and list careers that match their selected values. An example: A student highlights working with their hands, being around children, and being creative. He or she might consider being an art teacher or a children’s photographer. Another student who loves writing also likes to travel and be around a lot of activity. He or she might consider becoming a journalist. Values inventory should be administered in 9th grade and reviewed again during the senior year.