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

 

Index: 9.1B Grade 12 CPI 5

 

Standard: 9.1 - Career and Technical Education

 

Strand: B - Employability Skills

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 5 - The student will demonstrate teamwork and leadership skills that include student participation in real world applications of career and technical education skills.

 

Grade: 12

 

Sample Activities:

 

·    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.

 

·    The behavior of sports stars and movie personalities has been called into question. Develop a system for identifying and promoting positive role models in the community.

 

·    Current transportation systems consume natural resources and add to pollution and congestion.

 

·       Accessible Public Transportation

 

·       I’ve Got a Problem-Conflict in the Workplace

 

·    Research community based organizations such as the American Red Cross, Lions Club, and Rotary. Discuss mission statement of the organization and relate it to the work being done in the local community. Arrange for guest speakers, interview organization members, and explore the organizational structure, management, and outreach methods of the organization. Resources: www.lionsclubs.org; www.rotary.org; www.redcross.org; www.nationalservice.org.

 

·    Students will create and design a flyer, for distribution to the community to publicize their community service project. Students will research and use previously learned information regarding community outreach for this project. The flyer will detail their chosen project including it’s goal, process, and end result. They will consider the importance of creating a flyer that will appeal to and be read by members of the community.