Career Awareness Unit

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Career Awareness Unit

• Career Development 10
• Janis Richardson

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Setting the Table

• Career Development 10
• Class for O2 students
• Developing and refining a career plan.
• Just finished a unit on Personal Development

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Career Awareness

• Designed to help students develop an initial
  career plan
• Make decisions now that will prepare them for
  after high school

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Focus on varied instruction

• Technology one part of a strategy to engage and
  challenge these New Learners

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Career Awareness Outcomes

• Students will be expected to...
• articulate personal interests, attributes,
  skills, learning styles and preferences.
• access, interpret, and evaluate career
  information.
• engage in life/work planning and goal setting.
• apply the knowledge and skills needed to seek and
  obtain work.

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Main ICT Outcomes

• BOC 12.1 (relates to 9.1 9.4) use a wide
  variety of technology, demonstrate a clear
  understanding of technological applications, and
  consistently apply appropriate technology to
  solve curriculum problems
• BOC 12.3 (relates to 9.6) demonstrate facility
  with the specialized vocabulary associated with
  the technology they use
• BOC 12.4 (relates to 9.7) take personal
  responsibility for their safe and ergonomic use
  of technology for learning

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In a Nutshell...

• Self Skills Discovery
• Career Exploration
• Career Plan
• Résumé
• Calling Card
• Cover Letter
• Facebook Etiquette
• Job Interviews

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Technology Samples

• Lets look at some uses of technology

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Basic File Structure

• Series of Folders with one Index Lesson Plan
  Document

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Employability Skills

• Brainstorming valuable skills for the workplace
  using Wallwisher
• Outcomes
• articulate personal interests, attributes,
  skills, learning styles and preferences.
• ICT - use a wide variety of technology,
  demonstrate a clear understanding of
  technological applications, and consistently
  apply appropriate technology to solve curriculum
  problems

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Employability Skills

• Assessment
• Formative relevant contributions and
  discussion
• This activity leads to exploring formal
  Employability Skills and completing an inventory
  of personal skills.

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Career Cruising

• Online Career Exploration tool
• Outcomes
• articulate personal interests, attributes,
  skills, learning styles and preferences.
• access, interpret, and evaluate career
  information.

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Career Cruising

• Activities
• Monty Python The Vocational Guidance Counselor
• Career Cruising Worksheet Activity
• Career Cruising Site www.careercruising.com
• Career Prezi Assignment
• Assessments
• Formative Worksheet and Peer Assessment
• Summative Rubric attached to Career Prezi
  Assignment

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Resume Writing

• Students write their first Resume
• Outcomes
• articulate personal interests, attributes,
  skills, learning styles and preferences.
• apply the knowledge and skills needed to seek
  and obtain work.

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Resume Writing

• Your First Resume Prezi
• Assessments
• Formative discussion Resume Quiz in Prezi
  Draft version of Resume
• Summative Rubric in Resume Assignment

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Calling Cards

• Students create their own business cards that
  reflect their interests, personality and
  marketable qualities.
• Outcomes
• articulate personal interests, attributes,
  skills, learning styles and preferences.
• apply the knowledge and skills needed to seek
  and obtain work.

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Calling Cards

• Avery Labels created with Microsoft Word
• Assessments
• Summative - Calling Card Assignment Rubric

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Facebook Etiquette

• PowerPoint featuring a variety of images and in
  groups decide how appropriate or inappropriate
  they might be for posting in Facebook as they
  pertain to employment.
• Assessment
• Formative - discussion and group notes
• Outcome
• engage in life/work planning and goal setting.

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Job Interviews

• Series of exercises culminating in a mock job
  interview.
• Use of Wallwisher for brainstorming and Word for
  various assignments.
• Focus on conversation and writing.
• Outcomes
• articulate personal interests, attributes,
  skills, learning styles and preferences.
• apply the knowledge and skills needed to seek
  and obtain work.

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Job Interviews

• Assessments
• Formative
• series of worksheets and written work
• Class discussions
• Mock interview with classmate
• Summative
• Interview Questions writing assignment and rubric
• Final Interview Rubric also filmed for
  Reflection Journal

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Questions?

• This is the last presentation of the day