Content Area: Career Education and Consumer, Family, and Life Skills

 

Index: 9.1A Grade 12 CPI 1

 

Standard: 9.1 - Career and Technical Education

 

Strand: A - Career Awareness and Planning

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 1 - The student will  re-evaluate personal interests, abilities, and skills through various measures including self assessments

 

Grade: 12

 

Sample Activities:

 

·       A public relations firm has been hired to develop and produce a documentary alerting young adults to the need for fiscal responsibility when using credit cards. As an employee, you have been asked to develop a five-minute demo for the client.

 

·       The town has decided to build a new school. Prepare a presentation to convince the local board of education.

 

·       Earth is becoming uninhabitable

 

·       An individual wants to select a career pathway….in an area of interest for future employment and postsecondary and lifelong learning.

 

·       Although New Jersey is well known as the Garden State, it certainly could be recognized as the Invention State. We now live in an increasing complex "global society" with demands for increased invention, design, and manufacturing to make people's lives and work more productive while meeting personal and family needs

 

·       An individual wants to select a career pathway (Arts and Humanities, Health Services; Mathematics, and Technology; and Business and information) in an area of interest for future employment and postsecondary and lifelong learning.  Students complete an interest inventory or revisit previous interest inventories from  the student portfolio.

 

·        Musicians, A Study of Success and Failure

 

·       Students examine three types of assessment test related to their personality, skills, interests and work values, by using the Internet. They complete each test by tallying their score using the appropriate web site. A sample copy will be placed in their portfolio for future reference. Finally, students write an essay on what they learned about themselves, share with their peers and save for their portfolio.

 

·       Refer to the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences, Innovative Life Skills classroom projects on career planning at the following web site:
www.aafcs.org, and click on aafcs classroom ideas for life skills. Activities such as Career Connections, and Career Education Opportunities, can be used for high school students during a two semester time period.

 

·       Web Resources:
1. www.asvab.com  Click on career exploration program. The site provides you with eight short tests that help students learn more about themselves and the world of work. The interest-finder test measures their level of interest in six areas; realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, and conventional. After students complete the interest section, they move onto the skills section and the work-related values. This along with the ASVAB test help ready students for future occupations.
2. The website, www.princetonreview.com, provides a 24- question career quiz which yields results in terms of your personality on the job and a list of occupations that may interest you. The site also provides a section called Counselor-O-Matic which matches a college/university database to your academic and extracurricular activities.
3. The website,www.keirsey.com, provides tests that identify personality types and descriptions of temperament and character. You can take these test online by answering questions and submitting your responses electronically.