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Content Area: Career Education and Consumer, Family, and Life Skills
Index: 9.2B Grade 12 CPI 2
Standard: 9.2 - Consumer, Family, and Life Skills
Strand: B - Self-Management
Cumulative Progress Indicator: 2 - The student will apply project planning and management skills in academic and/or occupational settings.
Grade: 12
Sample Activities:
· Statistics indicate that drugs have an impact on worker productivity and safety. As CEO, develop a program focusing on the reduction of substance abuse in the workplace.
· Current transportation systems consume natural resources and add to pollution and congestion.
· Accessible Public Transportation
· Students will develop a training plan for new employees at the business of their choice. The written submission should include facilities and considerations (planning), training methods to be used, length of training and content.
· Students will develop an advertising plan for a new product. They will set advertising objectives, establish a budget, select the message and the media, and set up an evaluation process. The plan will be submitted in written form as a proposal to management.
· Students have the opportunity to apply project planning and management skills by participating in the competitive event programs offered by DECA, FCCLA, FBLA-PBA, HOSA, TSA and VICA. These events give students the opportunity to demonstrate leadership, management and teamwork skills necessary for academic and occupational success. Some examples of these events are DECA’s Chapter Team Events, FCCLA’s Power of One and Leaders at Work, FBLA’s American Enterprise Project and Web Site Development, HOSA’s Category III– Individual Leadership Events and Category IV - Team Leadership Events, TSA’s team events such as Agricultural and Biotechnology Design and Robotics, and VICA’s Community Service and Outstanding Chapter. Guidelines for these and other events can be found at the organizations’ web sites which are listed under resources.
· Students will work with a local business or charitable organization to develop, plan, implement, and evaluate a public relations campaign.
· Students will contact the New Jersey Commerce, Economic Growth, and Tourism Commission and the New Jersey Travel and Tourism web site to research what is currently being done to promote tourism in New Jersey. Students will then choose a state of their choice and develop a promotional campaign to promote tourists from that state to come to New Jersey. The promotional campaign will include advertising, sales promotion, publicity/public relations and personal selling. Students will present their promotional campaign to the class. The presentation should include information about the state they have chosen, promotional material, brochures they developed and any video produced by the students.
· Resources: New Jersey Commerce, Economic Growth & Tourism Commission, P.O. Box 820, Trenton, NJ 08625-0820, (www.nj.gov/travel)
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