Grade  7    Careers and Computers

Unit 3:  Career Exploration, Planning and Selection (3 weeks)

Honestly, there really is a relationship between career planning and reaching your lifelong goals. You do have goals, don't you!? What is a career cluster? What are your personal abilities and aptitudes and why does it even matter that you figure them out? do you understanding the changing nature of the workplace and the relationship of lifelong learning leading to career success? 

Hone in the skills necessary to  search and select an appropriate career.  Become familiar with the job search process and the preparation and presentation of individual materials required to participate in the process. Can you identify realistic occupational choices for yourself?  http://www.cmi-lmi.com/kingdomality.html http://www.sonoma.edu/users/n/nolan/501/kingdomality.htm

The Career Selection Process:

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Decide the lifestyle you desire.  Really think about it. (urban, rural, personal time, family, vacation, how you spend your time and money)

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Determine your abilities and aptitudes. (What's the difference?)

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Determine your personality and how it effects your career choices

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Chose a career cluster and examine the careers within the cluster to find related jobs that you may be interested in doing

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Research how much education you will need to pursue the career you want

Task 1

 

Be sure to save the worksheets below, as they will be graded!

Video Time!  Watch the video on careers found below.  Complete the worksheet packet and submit for grade.

Exploring Careers: What's Right (35:00) Work Sheet 1: Discussion Questions   Work Sheet 2: Personality Worksheet to Complete
Task 2

 

Video Time! Watch a career video (twilson2, 7thgrade) Watch any video on careers from the list found on www.unitedstreaming.com   Complete the worksheet and submit for grade.

Read   Best Jobs in America

 
Task 3

Career Web Quest (worksheet #3)

“Impossible!  I can’t decide now what I want to do with my life!  I’m only in middle school, after all.  How do they expect me to decide on a career now when I don’t even know what classes I’m going to take in high school?”

Does this feel familiar to you?  When you are asked about what you want to be when you grow up.  Do you have an answer? ? ? ?

   
Task 4

www.guidancedirect.com

school id 4692095  Password M32S7862

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Create a new account,

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Save and send your new username and password

to yourself via e-mail, or save in Word

 

New York Career Zone

Create a "locker" for yourself

 
Task 5

 Do some more research!

Occupational Outlook Handbook

Bio Works U

My Health Career

Career Videos

http://cbsalary.com/

College Finder

City Town Info

 
Task 6

Look at the websites of 6 local colleges (I will give you URL's)  Find majors that may interest you.  Paste them to the bottom of the Word document you create in Task 7
Task 7

Letter to yourself! (see assignment below) Rubric

 

q      Type a report in Microsoft Word listing the three possible careers you have chosen (in above item) for yourself, including for each career:

q     The future education you will need to achieve a job in the career area

q      The physical location (ex) specific colleges or vocational schools) which offer the training program you will need

q The salary range of someone in this career

q Job outlook...how much in demand will people pursuing jobs in this area be.

q Working conditions

 
Task 8
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Learn about desk top publishing!

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Letter to your parent/guardian

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Rubric 

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Suggested Letter Format

Include paragraphs 2-5 from task 7

Write a new paragraph 1 greeting to your parents

"We have finished our research on Careers in our Home and Careers class.  I would like to share the information I have found with you..."

Write a new concluding paragraph

"I will look forward to discussing this letter with you and getting your insights...."


Letter to Self in High School, 2 weeks before graduation

 

(Use format found in Keyboarding Book on page 130)

Step 1

write the body of the letter, using Word.  Save as lettertoself in your folder for this class

 
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1st  paragraph

Greet yourself!  Describe how you image you will be at this point of time in your life.  Looks, friends,     after school job, car, etc....????

 

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2nd paragraph

Describe yourself as you are now.  Include your personality, pets, siblings, lifestyle information, what you like, what you dislike, friends, what's most most important to you, favorite food, what really bugs you, Favorite piece of clothing... current height and weight, favorite movies and music, and special things both good and bad that occurred during the year.  include a current picture if you can,  write ten goals they would like to accomplish by their senior year when they get the letter back

 

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3rd paragraph (the most most heavily graded!!!

Using the information from your Guidance Direct or NYCAREERZONE.ORG Portfolio or other assessments, record what the data says you should do for a living.  Talk about that career.  NOW...record what you think that you want to do for a living especially if it does not agree with the career portfolio information.  Tell yourself about your post high school education plans.  Where are you going to college or for more training?  Are you going into the military?  What branch? 

 

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4rd paragraph (2nd most heavily graded)

Describe your personality as defined by the personality tests that you have taken in class.  You may copy and paste information

 

 

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5th paragraph

Talk about your projected lifestyle Where do you want to live? What will you do with your free time?  How will you spend your money? etc....

 

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6th paragraph

Concluding message.  Wish yourself good luck!  Remind yourself to work hard.  How about a favorite saying?

 

 

Step 2

Put a pic of yourself and/or and avatar Avatars Everywhere: 27 of the Best Avatar Makers

 

Spell check and grammar check the letter.  Use "block letter" format.  See page 130 in the keyboarding book for help on style.

 

Step 3

Desktop publishing!  Design your own letterhead for the top of the letter.  You will be doing a matching envelope too!  It will be printed in Black/white.  Design it so it will look good that way!

 

Step 4

Put in the addresses and top information necessary for a proper letter (page 130)

 

Step 5

Have your letter graded

Have your letterhead graded

Have your envelope graded

Fold your letter and place in the envelope, tuck in the flap

Turn into Mrs Wilson for safe keeping for the next 5 years!!

 

Letter to home: (change font, add graphics and "stamp")      Make an envelope to print

Your Name

Madrid-Waddington Central

Madrid, NY  13660

Your Parent/Guardian Name

Your Street address

Your Town  NY  Zip

Letter to self: (change font, add graphics and "stamp")

Your Name

Madrid-Waddington Central

Madrid, NY  13660

Your Name, 12 Grade Homeroom

Madrid-Waddington Central

Madrid, NY  13660

 

 

Folder Contains:

bulletLetter to self Rubric
bulletEnvelope to self
bulletLetter to self

 

bulletLetter to Parent/Guardian Rubric
bulletEnvelope to Parent/Guardian
bulletLetter to Parent/Guardian

 

bulletCareer Report (task 7) (stapled)

 

Desktop Publishing Performance Quiz

  1. Create a  Yellow square, a Red circle, and a blue triangle using your drawing toolbar
  2. Put the red circle on the bottom, the blue triangle on top of that, and the yellow square on top.  Size them so I can see all of them at the same time (overlap them)
  3. Now connect them all as one image
  4. I will grade from your monitor.  You must show me that you can move them all together as one image.
  5. After I see this, you must UNGROUP them, Change the Yellow square to TRANSPARENT, size it larger than all the other shapes, place it on top of the other images and show me that I can now see through it. Regroup items so they are still able to be moved together.

We have finished our research on careers in our Home and Careers class.  I would like to share the information I have found with you. Attached to this letter is my career report.  Here is a summary of what it says.

 

My first career choice is blah blah blah

 

My second career choice blah blah blha

 

The last career that I may explore is blah blah vlah

 

3rd paragraph (the most most heavily graded!!!

Using the information from your NYCAREERZONE.ORG Portfolio, record what the data says you should do for a living.  Talk about that career.  NOW...record what you think that you want to do for a living especially if it does not agree with the career portfolio information.  Tell yourself about your post high school education plans.  Where are you going to college or for more training?  Are you going into the military?  What branch? 

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4rd paragraph (2nd most heavily graded)

Describe your personality as defined by the personality tests that you have taken in class.  You may copy and paste information

 I took some fun online personality tests for learn more about myself.  The tests say I am an extravert.  That means that I am blah blah blah,  The tests also said that I am blah blah bla

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5th paragraph

Talk about your projected lifestyle Where do you want to live? What will you do with your free time?  How will you spend your money? etc....

 

I will look forward to discussing this letter with you and getting your insights.blah blah blah

 

 

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