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Standards
Learning Expectations
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This activity will help students acquire
competencies which relate to the following standards:
4.
Career awareness and employment readiness skills
6. Knowledge and skills to achieve career goals
The student will:
4.2
Access, interpret, and evaluate career information using technology and other
resources
4.4 Demonstrate an understanding of how personal
characteristics relate to career choice
6.1 Evaluate how interests, abilities, and
achievement relate to attaining personal, social, academic and and career
goals
6.7 Explore the changing workplace and its
requirement for flexibility and lifelong learning
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General Approach
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The general approach is
that students will explore various career options through several web sites,
complete a worksheet, share information, and have a discussion regarding the
discoveries they have made.
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Activity Steps
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- Begin the activity by gauging the students'
knowledge of "for profit" schools. Ask them to give some
examples of these schools and if they know what differentiates them from
other, post secondary types of education.
- Give each student a Worksheet which
they will complete throughout their on-line exploration.
- Have the students go to the following ACCSCT web site to begin their exploration of
vocational/specialization schools. The address is
http://www.accsct.org.
- After each student has completed his/her
worksheet, ask them to share some web sites that were of particular
interest to them. Using a viewing screen accessible to the whole class,
pull up a few web sites and have the class discuss them. If this
resource is not available, separate the students into groups of three,
and ask each student to share a web site.
- Engage the students in a discussion prompted by
the following questions:
- The Career Colleges and Schools of Texas web site
boasts the following slogan: "Improving Lives through 'Hire'
Education." What do you think is meant by that?
- Give some examples of situations in which it
would be better for a person to attend a "for profit" school
rather than a four-year college.
- What did you learn about
vocational/specialization schools that was surprising to you?
- What may be some drawbacks to attending a
vocational school rather than a four-year program?
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Time Required
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Allow about 1 1/2 hours for
this activity. It will probably take about 45 minutes for students to explore
the web sites and complete the worksheet. Sharing the web sites will take
about 20 minutes, while the discussion should take 15 minutes.
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Resources Needed
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1. Access to the
Internet
2. A worksheet
3. Pencils/pens
4. Ability to project the teacher's
monitor (if possible)
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Performance Indicators
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Students will be able to:
Use technology and other sources to locate
college, financial aid, and job information
Identify possible career choices using
information gained through technology
Relate interests, abilities, and achievement
to personal, social, educational, and career goals
Understand the benefits of preparing multiple
post secondary career options
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