How Santa Got His Job A First Grade Career Development Lesson

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How Santa Got His JobA First Grade Career
Development Lesson

• Presented by Jennifer Frederick
• Sope Creek Elementary Professional School
  Counselor

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ASCA Standards
A Students will acquire the skills to
investigate the world of work in relation to
knowledge of self and to make informed career
decisions. B Students will employ strategies
to achieve future career goals with success and
satisfaction. C Students will understand the
relationship between personal qualities,
education, and training and the world of work.
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• Competencies
• CA1.2 TSW learn about the variety of traditional
  and nontraditional occupations
• CA1.3 TSW develop an awareness of personal
  abilities, skills, interests, and motivations
• CB1.2 TSW identify personal skills, interests
  and abilities, and relate them to current career
  choice
• CB2.1 TSW demonstrate awareness of the education
  and training needed to achieve career goals
• CC1.3 TSW identify personal preferences and
  interests influencing career choice and success
• CC2.1 TSW demonstrate how interests, abilities
  and achievement relate to achieving personal,
  social, educational, and career goals

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Essential Questions What am I good
at? What careers might I like?
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• Lesson Materials
• Community Helpers Pocket Flash Cards by Trend
  (from the School Box)
• How Santa Got His Job, by Stephen Krensky and
  S.D. Schindler
• Butcher paper and markers for brainstorming
• Careers I Like handout

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• Activities
• Activation Strategy
• Play Guess that career with community helper
  cards. Give clues about the job description,
  duties, and educational requirements, and have
  students guess the career
• Teaching Strategies
• Discuss likes/dislikes and strengths/weakness in
  regard to the jobs students have at home and
  school
• Read the story, stopping for discussion along the
  way
• Brainstorm a web of career choices
• Evaluation
• Students should complete and share the Careers I
  Like handout

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A Career I Like Here I am working as a
____________________________. Two things I am
good at that help me do my job are 1.
___________________________________________ 2.
___________________________________________ My
job is an inside or outside (circle one)
job. I do / do not (circle one) need to go to
college for my job. In school I need to study
_________________for my job. Here is a
picture of me working in my career.
Evaluation