STANDARD 9: Career Education and Life Skills

Standard 9: Career Education and Consumer, Family, and Life Skills

Mission: Through Career and Technological Education, students identify and pursue career goals, apply communication and critical thinking skills, develop employability skills, and plan for further education and employment.

Standard 9.1 Career and Technical Education All students will develop career awareness and planning, employability skills and foundational knowledge necessary for success in the workplace.
Big Idea: Students explore career opportunities and assess individual aptitudes and interests to make informed decisions regarding career and educational choices.
9.1 A. Career Awareness and Planning
Essential Questions	Enduring Understandings
- How do I decide what I want to be and how do I prepare for my career? - Why do I need a career plan? How do I communicate this information to post-secondary institutions and employers?	- Each job, career and profession has a set of preparation requirements, career exploration experiences and different opportunities for personal and professional growth and satisfaction. - An effective career plan is flexible, includes a variety of life experiences, skills and education, and can save time, energy and money.
Cumulative Progress Indicators	Comments and Examples
By the end of Grade 4:
1. Describe various life roles and work-related activities in the home, community, and school.
2. Identify abilities and skills associated with various careers.
3. Identify reasons people work and how work habits impact the quality of one’s work.
9.1 B. Employability Skills
Essential Questions	Enduring Understandings
- How can we best prepare for the workforce when we will likely change jobs multiple times and perhaps even careers?	- In the 21st century, people will most likely have multiple careers and jobs. - Personal actions today and tomorrow may have an effect on future employment.
Cumulative Progress Indicators	Comments and Examples
By the end of Grade 4:
1. Describe and demonstrate the importance of personal and interpersonal skills.
2. Identify positive work habits and attitudes necessary for home, community, and school.
3. Identify reasons for working as part of a team.

Standard 9.2 Consumer, Family, and Life Skills All students will develop career awareness and planning, employability skills and foundational knowledge necessary for success in the workplace.
Big Idea: All students will demonstrate critical life skills in order to be functional members of society.
9.2 A. Critical Thinking
Essential Questions	Enduring Understandings
How do I decide or make choices?	Choices we make as individuals affect self, family, community and the world.
Cumulative Progress Indicators	Comments and Examples
By the end of Grade 4:
1. Recognize and define a problem.
2. Plan and follow steps to make choices and decisions.
3. Identify and access print and non-print resources that can be used to help solve problems.
4. Demonstrate brainstorming skills.
9.2 B. Self-Management
Essential Questions	Enduring Understandings
Why do I need to be accountable?	Personal attitudes, behaviors, knowledge and skills promote self awareness, personal responsibility and self-direction.
Cumulative Progress Indicators	Comments and Examples
By the end of Grade 4:
1. Demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between personal behavior and self-image.
2. Recognize and build upon personal strengths
3. Accept criticism and respond constructively.
4. Recognize personal likes and dislikes.
5. Demonstrate steps to deal with stress and conflict
9.2 C. Interpersonal Communications
Essential Questions	Enduring Understandings
How do I best communicate?	Effective communication skills are necessary to convey meaning and understanding to others.
Cumulative Progress Indicators	Comments and Examples
By the end of Grade 4:
1. Develop positive social skills to interact with others.
2. Select and use language appropriate to the situation.
3. Develop skills for accepting self and others through awareness of different cultures, lifestyles, and attitudes.
4. Practice steps for effective conflict resolution.
5. Work cooperatively with others to accomplish a task.
9.2 D. Character Development and Ethics
Essential Questions	Enduring Understandings
How do family, school, community and workplace influence an individual’s character and ethics?	One’s character and ethics are constantly being challenged and are ever-changing and evolving.
Cumulative Progress Indicators	Comments and Examples
By the end of Grade 4:
1. Demonstrate character traits that are important in day-to-day activities in the home, school, and community such as trust, responsibility, respect, fairness, caring, and citizenship.
2. Conduct a cooperative activity or project that addresses a character trait.
3. Identify ethical behaviors in the home, school, and community.
4. Explain a person’s responsibility to obey the laws and rules.
9.2 E. Consumer and Personal Finance
Essential Questions	Enduring Understandings
When should I start planning financially, and how is it best to do so?	Financial choices have costs, benefits and consequences.
Cumulative Progress Indicators	Comments and Examples
By the end of Grade 4:
1. Demonstrate a basic understanding of the value of money.
2. Identify various sources of money for personal spending.
3. Explore the relationship among wants, needs, and resources.
4. Understand that prices of goods and services can be compared to make decisions about purchases.
5. Explain how people can improve their ability to earn income by gaining new knowledge, skills, and experiences.
6. Describe how to earn and save money in order to purchase a desired item.
9.2 F. Safety
Essential Questions	Enduring Understandings
How is safety a personal and societal responsibility?	Lack of awareness about laws and rules may lead to unsafe situations and chaos.
Cumulative Progress Indicators	Comments and Examples
By the end of Grade 4:
1. Identify common hazards associated with home, school, and community.
2. Explain how common hazards can be eliminated in the home, school, and community.
3. Describe and demonstrate the safe use of tools and equipment used at home and at school.

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