Career Development
This section focuses on improvements I have made to the 19 Career Development Lessons provided by the state of Utah for CTE Intro classes. If you do not teach in Utah, this might not make a lot of sense to you!
Lesson 3 - Career Sheets
All year long I have been working on re-writing the 40 career sheets that are
used in the first 4 CDA Lessons. It's been a HUGE undertaking, and I have finally completed them. I made several changes to them, and I also redid the worksheets that accompany it in Lesson 3. Below is an explanation of the changes I made, and then the files are ready to download. The Career sheets are in .zip format and will need to be unzipped. I have also included the same sheets as a downloadable pdf if you prefer.
used in the first 4 CDA Lessons. It's been a HUGE undertaking, and I have finally completed them. I made several changes to them, and I also redid the worksheets that accompany it in Lesson 3. Below is an explanation of the changes I made, and then the files are ready to download. The Career sheets are in .zip format and will need to be unzipped. I have also included the same sheets as a downloadable pdf if you prefer.
UPDATED!
Below is the updated version of the careers, uploaded to this site on 5/8/14. If you already downloaded the previous version, get the new one as errors have been fixed. And, if you find any other errors, please email me so I can fix it! Thank you!
- All information comes directly from the Utah Futures website and is recent and updated
- Pathway friendly--each career is color coded by the pathway it is in, and I also made sure to choose five careers from each pathway so all of them are evenly represented. Some are high paying and some are low paying in each pathway
- I tried to choose careers that are more in demand NOW, not forever ago when the originals were created. Some of them are 5-star careers but not all of them
- The new sheets have a lot more info that can be compared with their classmates in the "what's my line" activity, including: Salary, high school classes, amount of education (more clear), knowledge, job outlook, schedule (more clear), travel, and leisure time and hours worked a week are now separated.
- Each sheet is color coded by pathway, and is two sided. The second side has the overview description found in Utah Futures. They are in PDF form to download.
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Pathway Lesson for Orientation
This year I started an activity that I do with my students on the first day as an orientation each quarter. I put up eight different pictures all over the room. Each picture symbolizes one of the eight pathways. When the students come in that day, I greet them at the door with a bunch of magnets. (I have a badge-making machine, as you will see in my Simulation, and I made magnet badges for this activity. You could just use peices of paper) Each magnet has an occupation on it. The kids take that magnet and sit down.
I instruct them to set it asside for the moment, and look at the pictures on the wall. I tell them to choose the one that they relate to most. The pictures I have are:
Saddle - Agriculture
House - FACS
Pile of Money - Business
Hard Hat - Technology & Engineering
Stethoscope - Health Science
TV - Marketing
Computer - Information Technology
Wrench - Skilled and Technical Sciences
(For a full explanantion of the Pathways, click here)
After the students have chosen where they will go, I go around and ask them why they picked what they did. Then I have them sit back down, and one by one I gather each picture and flip it over to reveal the pathway name on the back. we talk about each pathway and the types of jobs you would find in it. I put them up, spaced evenly, on my white board.
Then I invite students to come up and put their magnet under which pathway they think it belongs in. If it have leftover magnets (there are 40) I have some students place more than one. Then we go over each pathway again, correcting each job and discussing why they belong in each category. I have added a zip file that has the pictures and titles for all eight pathways as well.
I instruct them to set it asside for the moment, and look at the pictures on the wall. I tell them to choose the one that they relate to most. The pictures I have are:
Saddle - Agriculture
House - FACS
Pile of Money - Business
Hard Hat - Technology & Engineering
Stethoscope - Health Science
TV - Marketing
Computer - Information Technology
Wrench - Skilled and Technical Sciences
(For a full explanantion of the Pathways, click here)
After the students have chosen where they will go, I go around and ask them why they picked what they did. Then I have them sit back down, and one by one I gather each picture and flip it over to reveal the pathway name on the back. we talk about each pathway and the types of jobs you would find in it. I put them up, spaced evenly, on my white board.
Then I invite students to come up and put their magnet under which pathway they think it belongs in. If it have leftover magnets (there are 40) I have some students place more than one. Then we go over each pathway again, correcting each job and discussing why they belong in each category. I have added a zip file that has the pictures and titles for all eight pathways as well.
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Lesson 1 - Wish List
I created this wish list power point--SO much easier than the packet! I updated it last in November 2012, and the houses pictures are ACTUAL houses for sale in Utah with their sale price. Also included is a replacement Excel file for Lesson 4--much easier to do the math on Excel than on the paper provided. This was created by Bill Simpson
Lesson 1 Wish List | |
File Size: | 3942 kb |
File Type: | ppt |
Lesson 4 Budget | |
File Size: | 14 kb |
File Type: | xlsx |
Lesson 7 - Personalities
So yes, I know this is the counselor lesson. They introduce the six personality types--Doer, Thinker, Creator, Persuader, and Organizer. I use these personality types in determining my student's groups for the Simulation, so I have created an online quiz that I give my students that helps them determine their personality type. I use it to sort my kids into groups for my Badge Builder Simulation. You are welcome to use it!
http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.php?title=cte-intro-personality-quizz
http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.php?title=cte-intro-personality-quizz
Lesson 10 - Big Points Game
I found the "cards" for this game, Big Points, very hard to deal with in the files given by the State, so I made my own. They are in PDF format--just print them on one side of cardstock paper, then print one of the CardBacks on the other side. They should slice evenly, unlike the ones the State provides. Then laminate and you are done! I REALLY love playing this game with my kids--its kind of a pain to get them started, but they end up loving it!
lesson_10_values_worksheet_mr.pdf | |
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Lesson 11 - Utah Futures
The Utah Futures website has recently changed, and so it got very confusing how to do this lesson! I have created a new worksheet for it that will guide students through the process. They will look at seven different careers in their interest area, and look up the level of education required, job outlook, and salary. The new site still has them do an interest survey (though its a bit shorter) but the results page looks quite different.
utahfuturesworksheet.docx | |
File Size: | 391 kb |
File Type: | docx |
Lesson 13 -
I also made some cards for activity 13. I laminated and keep them in a labeled manilla envelope with magnets so they are easy and quick to use.
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