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Human Resources Management |
Hospitality & Tourism |
Marketing & Entrepreneur Management |
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Welcome to my College and Career Awareness site! This summer I have already begun mulling over ideas of how I can make the Business section a little more "me" without going far afield of the provided lessons. I feel that there is an overabundance of PowerPoints and worksheets, and while this is a great place to start and gives the "meat" of the lessons, I'd like to make some parts a little more fun and interactive if I can.
As I come up with ideas, I put them here to share as a resource to anyone who wants it. All the information given in CCA is free, but I do have many other awesome lesson plans that are available on the Utah Teacher Portal for free, or you can check my store on Teachers Pay Teachers if there are any other lessons that might interest you for your other classes. NOTE: The state site is sometimes down for updates and it's always reliable. You can go to http://www.uen.org/cte/cca/www.uen.org/cte/cca/ for the official lessons, but you MUST have a UEN login to open the files. As long as you are a Utah school employee and have an official email, you should be able to access the site. Planning FileIn May of 2016 I begged Sherry Marchant to allow me to redo End of Year Summary sheet, using Excel so it's a lot easier to navigate. We worked on it back and forth and perfected it. It has not ended up being used for this class, but it's a GREAT planning tool. Feel free to use it.
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Links to Official State SitesTo get the official original lessons for CCA, click on the link below. You will need a UEN login to access the lessons.
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Excel Sample and Blank Schedule
I plan my classes in Excel. I thought I would provide you with a sample schedule of CCA--this is just basically the order I teach it in, but it can be useful when making your own plans. The second file is a blank one that you can use to plan your year. I have used this template for years, tweaking it occasionally. You will have to make your own changes to it--like coloring the rows where there is no school or making your prep period a narrower column.
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Career Cluster Orientation Activity
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This is the new activity I created for introducing the Career Clusters, and shared at the 2017 Summer Business Conference for CCA. Below you will find the download for the instruction sheet and the images for the labels.
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Orientation Activity - Business Rotation or Lab with PowerPoint Preferred
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I spent all morning getting this thing ready! This is what I am doing on DAY 1 with my students in College and Career Awareness. It will require the students to get into PowerPoint to do the lesson, though it might be possible--though less fun--to do it without. I like the idea of kids getting on the computer right off the bat. The file below has full instructions on how to teach it. I can't give you a time frame, since I haven't taught it yet, but I plan to do it all in one day. We'll see how THAT goes! At the end, students will turn in a simple PowerPoint that will tell you their names, interests, personality type, hobbies, and what pathways they are already interested in. Useful information! Might be fun to look at it again at the end of the year and see if it's all still true!
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Career ConnectionIn an effort to take a little bit of the "worksheety" feeling out of this section, I did something a little different for the career connection this quarter. Sometimes I do it at the beginning of a unit, or at the end. I ordered these awesome magnetic sheets that the kids or I can write on, then put on the board and flip them around as needed. So I wrote the occupations, the level of education, and then yearly income on the sheets, and then had the kids arrange them next to the job description they thought it went with. It was way more fun an interactive than having them fill out a worksheet.
The magnetic strips are not particularly cheap, but they can be used over and over again for so many reasons. I got them at Magnatag, and these are the 2x6 siz. I ordered five sets of the same color, so I have 50 of them and it cost me $120. I used my grant money to buy them. Super useful and the kids think they are cool. I just like the ability to rearrange stuff with them. I feel like they have really helped the kids make a real connection to the careers in each area, and recognize the end of one section and the beginning of another. |
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