K4 Career Awareness

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Jefferson County

• K-4 Career Awareness
• Goals Objectives

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Goal I Knowledge of the importance of
self-concept.

• 1.1 Describe how behavior influences the actions
  of others.
• 1.2 Demonstrate a positive self-concept.
• 1.3 Identify personal strengths and interests.

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Activities Goal I

• Write Want Ads for friends.
• Research famous people.
• Create About Me collages.

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Goal II Develop skills to interact with others.

• 2.1 Demonstrate effective skills for interacting
  with others.
• 2.2 Demonstrate awareness of the different
  cultures.

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Activities Goal II

• Keep journal.
• Study different cultures.
• Invite guest speakers of different cultures.
• Discuss different parts of the world.

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Goal III Develop an awareness of the
importance of growth and change.

• 3.1 Identify behaviors and ways to express them
  appropriately

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Activities Goal III

• Develop stress management techniques.
• Role play life situations.

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Goal IV Develop an awareness of relationship
between work and learning.

• 4.1 Identify skills needed for success in
  occupational clusters.

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Activities Goal IV

• Research careers.
• Career Bingo
• Career Theme Day
• Dress for Success
• Field trips to local business.

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Goal V Develop an Awarenessof Relationship
between work and learning.

• Objective 5.1 Describe the importance of
  preparing for occupations

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Activities 5.1

• Guest Speakers
• Creative Play I.E., class store
• Interviews with people in community
• In the News reading

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Goal VI Develop skills to understand and use
career information

• Objective 6.1 Describe work of family members ,
  school personnel, and community workers.

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Activities 6.1

• Daily journaling
• Job Simulations
• Job-Shadowing
• Take Your Child To Work Day
• Career Day
• Cost of Living/Budgeting

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Goal VII Develop an awareness of the importance
of personal responsibility and good work habits.

• Objective 7.1 Describe the importance of
  personal qualities (e.g. dependability,
  promptness, getting along with others) to getting
  and keeping jobs.

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7.1 Activities

• Classroom Jobs
• I Work, Too Project

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Goal 8 Develop an Awareness of How Work Relates
To The Needs and Functions of Society

• Objective 8.1 Describe the Products and
  Services of Local Employers

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8.1 Activities

• Yellow Pages
• Field Trip
• Design-an Ad contest

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Goal IX Understanding how to make decisions

• Objective 91
• Identify strategies used in solving problems

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Activities 9.1

• Role playing decision making situations.
• Discuss harmful effects of drugs, alcohol and
  smoking.
• Create murals showing results of positive
  choices.
• Play What Do You Need. Name five items needed
  for school, camping, vacation, baking, etc.

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Goal X Develop an awareness of the
interrelationship of life roles.
Objective 101 Describe how depend on one
another, work together, and share
responsibilities.
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Activities 10.1

• Read family oriented stories.
• Develop a chore chart for your family.
• Create a family tree.
• Make a class graph of families.
• Make a booklet of family members performing
  chores.
• Show and Tell bring family pictures to share

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Goal XI Develop an awareness of different
occupations and changing male/female roles.

• Objectives11.1 Describe the importance of
  preparing for traditional and nontraditional
  occupations free from sex bias and sex
  stereotyping.
• Objectives 11.2 Describe how
• work is important to all people.

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Activities 11.1 and 11.2

• Create a list of traditional and nontraditional
  careers for the sexes.
• Discuss misconceptions.
• Invite guest speakers to discuss their jobs.
• Take field trips to job sites.
• Select a career and learn more about it.
• Create a career book.
• Make a collage of food, clothing and shelter.

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Goal XII Develop an awareness of the career
planning process.

• Objective 121 Describe the importance of
  planning.

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Activities 12.1

• Field trips to job sites to include planning.
• Help students to be aware of staying on schedule.
• Have students serve on committees.
• Use learning centers to teach time management.
• Have students regularly organize desks.