Careers R Cool
GRADE 6-8 SESSION 5
Time Required: 45-75 minutes
Content Standards:
Career Development
A: Students will acquire the skills to investigate the world of work in relation
to knowledge of self and to make informed career decisions.
C: Students will understand the relationship between personal qualities,
education, training and the world of work.
Indicators:
Students will be able to gather, analyze and apply information and ideas.
Students will be able to communicate effectively within and beyond the
classroom.
GOAL: Students will reflect on job shadowing
experiences.
Activity Statements:
Professional School Counselor will observe students’ attitude and enthusiasm
about the job shadow experience.
Materials:
Completed “Top Ten List” Questions
Materials from the Job Site
Thank-you note cards
Developed photos or slide show from job shadow experience
Procedures:
http://missouricareereducation.org/curr/cmd/guidanceplacementG/elearning/
Careers R Cool
GRADE 6-8 SESSION 5
Professional School Counselor Procedures:
Session 5
1. Review Small Group Guidelines with an
emphasis on post-group confidentiality.
Remind participants that even though the
group is over, other group members will trust
them not to tell other people about what
another person said or did in the group.
Remind students about your responsibility to
protect their confidentiality, too.
Student Involvement: Session 5
2. Collect Parent and Student Feedback Forms;
make arrangements to get the forms from
participants who did not bring them to the
group.
2. Students give you their forms; if they do not
have them, they commit to the day they will
bring them to you.
3. Present developed photos or a slide show of
students on the job shadow experience.
3. Students view and comment on the slide show.
4. Return materials from the job shadow
experience and facilitate sharing by the
students of the completed “Top Ten Lists”.
4. Students share their completed “Top Ten Lists”
and materials gathered from job shadow with
the group.
5. Distribute and mail completed thank-you cards.
5. Students complete thank-you cards and returns
to counselor.
6. Closure/Summary: Note any questions or
comments that require additional follow-up.
Distribute & Explain Teacher/Parent/ Guardian
Session Follow-Up Suggestions. Send a copy
home with each student and provide a copy to
classroom teacher(s) of students in group.
6. Closure/Summary: Students write down
comments about job shadowing experience
and offer suggestions for the next group.
Students commit to giving their
parents/guardians the Teacher/Parent/
Guardian Session Follow-Up Suggestions
handout.
7. If a follow-up session is planned, remind
students that it will be held in 4-6 weeks.
1. Students participate in review by telling what
post-group confidentiality means for them.
7. Students confirm that they have written the
date for the Follow-up Session in their
assignment books/planners.
8. Students complete the Student Feedback Form:
http://missouricareereducation.org/curr/cmd/guidanceplacementG/elearning/
Careers R Cool
GRADE 6-8 SESSION 5
Professional School Counselor Procedures:
Session 5
Overall Effectiveness of Group. Give each
student a Group Certificate of Completion for
completing the group. Celebrate the closing of
the group.
Student Involvement: Session 5
8. Group Summary/Closure: Students complete
the Student Feedback Form. The students
celebrate the closure of their group and accept
their certificates.
Discussion:
How do class/educational choices relate to the real world?
Additional Resources:
Adapted from
http://missouricareereducation.org/curr/cmd/guidanceplacementG/responsive
/index.html.
Extension Activities:
Students could make classroom presentations of the job shadow experience and
review Personal Plan of Study.
Teacher/Parent/Guardian Small Group Session Follow-up
Group Certificate of Completion
http://missouricareereducation.org/curr/cmd/guidanceplacementG/elearning/