Goal Setting
GRADE 12 SESSION 4 UNIT 1
Lesson Title: Respect for ALL Workers
Time Required: 55-70 minutes
Content Standards:
Career Development
C. Students will understand the relationship between personal qualities,
education, training, and the world of work.
Indicators:
 Students will analyze the education, training and personal characteristics
needed to achieve current life career goals and compare those
characteristics with one’s own characteristics.
 Students will identify personal contributions to a global society to be
made as a result of one’s life career choices.
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Goal 1: Gather, analyze, and apply information and ideas.
Goal 2: Communicate effectively within and beyond the classroom.
Goal 3: Recognize and solve problems.
Goal 4: Make decisions and act as responsible members of society.
GOAL: Students will demonstrate empathy for
the roles of various workers.
Activity Statements:
We’ve got to reduce the cost of producing _______! Which jobs can be
eliminated? Hand out ”focus object”, e.g., pencil, healthy snack.
Materials:
 Newsprint
 Markers
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 Activity Sheet Career Paths Chart (one for each student)
 A “focus object” for each student (e. g., a new pencil, a healthy snack).
The “object” will be used to engage students in the lesson
(Note: If using a food item as “focus object” select something that supports the
national emphasis on well-being via healthy in-school snack offerings.)
Procedures:
Instructor Procedures
1. When a “focus object” has been
given to each student, divide class into
groups of four.
Student Involvement
1. Students sit in groups of four.
2. Students list ALL jobs required to get
object in their hands.
2. Students are instructed to look at
their “focus object” and list on
3. Students post newsprint on wall in
newsprint ALL jobs that are required to classroom “roam the room” to
get the object in their hands.
compare lists.
3. Students are instructed to post
newsprint on wall in classroom “roam
the room” to compare lists.
4. Students place each job in a career
path on their individual Career Paths
Chart.
4. Students return to their groups;
distribute the Activity Sheet “Career
Paths Chart.” Students are instructed
to individually place each job in a
career path on their Career Path
Charts.
5. Students will present “arguments”
for the job they consider MOST
important, jobs that are necessary and
jobs that can be eliminated.
6. Students will develop individual
“Position Statements” based on the
data gathered during class activities.
5. Students are instructed to review
their entries on the Career Path Chart
and determine, with their peers, which 7. Students will contribute to the “I
job is the MOST important, which jobs stand firm” process.
are necessary and which jobs can be
eliminated.
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6. Students are instructed to write a
position statement supporting their
position re: “The Elimination of Jobs in
the production of ____ “ (See Lesson
Assessment for guidelines)
7. Close with asking students to
complete the statement: “I stand firm
on my belief that jobs and workers…”
Discussion:
How do we view the importance of individual jobs?
Additional Resources:
Adapted from
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Extension Activities:
Encourage classroom teachers to post student “Position Statements” and to
continue discussions about the variety of occupations in career pathways that
are necessary to produce individual products.
Additional Lesson Information:
Enduring Life Skill(s)
X Perseverance
X Integrity
X Courage
Compassion
X Respect
Goal-Setting
X Problem-Solving
Tolerance
Responsibility
This lesson supports the development of skills in the following academic content
areas.
Academic Content Area(s)
Specific Skill(s)
X Communication Arts
6. Participating in formal and informal
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presentations and discussions of issues and
ideas
Mathematics
Social Studies
Science
Health/Physical Education
Fine Arts
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