Career Exploration Module – Career Portals Course
WEEK ONE MONDAY
Day 1
Lesson Introduction TUESDAY
Day 2
Objectives: Legal Services/ Security & Protective Services Objectives: ‐
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Discuss the LPSCS
cluster
Identify and explore
career opportunities within
the LPSCS Cluster
Identify and discuss the
five pathways within the
LPSCS Cluster
Lesson Plan: Career Module Introduction Extension: ‐
Challenge students to
make a list of personal
skills and interests
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THURSDAY
Day 4
WEDNESDAY
Day 3
Law Enforcement/ Correctional Services FRIDAY
Day 5
Objectives: Law Enforcement/Correctional Services (continued) Objectives: Emergency and Fire Management Services Objectives: ‐
Identify and explore the
following career
opportunities within the
LPSCS Cluster: lawyer,
judge, paralegal, court
reporter, bailiff, security
guard
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Identify and explore the following career
opportunities within the LPSCS Cluster:
police officer, correctional officer, sheriff,
criminal investigator
Use the scientific process to solve a
fictional crime
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Identify and explore the following career
opportunities within the LPSCS Cluster:
police officer, correctional officer, sheriff,
criminal investigator
Use senses of sight and hearing to
observe mock criminal activity
Identify and explore the
following career
opportunities within the
LPSCS Cluster:
firefighter, paramedic or
EMT
Lesson Plan: What’s the Verdict? Lesson Plan: Forensic Detective Lesson Plan: What Did You See and Hear? Lesson Plan: The First Responders Extension: Extension: Extension (continued): Extension: ‐
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Allow students to write
their own mock trial
scripts
Provide opportunities for
students to see an actual
criminal trial
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Instruct students to write a criminal
report using the Crime Scene Scenario
and the Criminal Report Form
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Take students to tour the local jail or
prison. Be sure to get Field Trip Release
Forms signed by parents
Do a report on Alcatraz using an online
movie
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Request a firefighter to
create a sample “training
camp” for students to
experience
Resources: CTE at UNT – www.CTE.unt.edu ONETcenter ‐ http://online.onetcenter.org/ US Bureau of Labor Statistics – www.bls.gov States’ Career Clusters – http://careerclusters.org/ Achieve Texas ‐‐ http://achievetexas.org/ Copyright © Texas Education Agency, 2014. All rights reserved 1 Career Exploration Module – Career Portals Course
WEEK TWO MONDAY
Day 6
TUESDAY
Day 7
WEDNESDAY
Day 8
THURSDAY
Day 9
FRIDAY
Day 10
Self‐Assessment A Cluster Journey In the News Cluster Scavenger Hunt Portfolio Maintenance/Career Formation/ ETC. Objectives: Objectives: Objectives: Objectives: Objectives: ‐
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Identify and explore career
opportunities within the LPSCS
Cluster
Align personal interests and
skills with a variety of LPSCS
careers
Devlop a high school Program
of Study (POS)
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Identify pioneers in the LPSCS
cluster and tell their story
Document real life changes in a
career based on occupations
skills and requirements
Explain how the skills and
requirements for one of the
student’s occupation interests
can lead to another occupation
in another cluster
Identify reasons a person might
change occupations
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Communicate with other team
members in both written and
oral form
Organize, write, and compile
ideas into reports and
summaries
Understand how to find current
event topics through
newspapers, internet, journals,
and magazines
Relate to consumer issues in
LPSCS
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Identify, explore, and review
career opportunities within the
LPSCS Cluster
Compare levels of education for
careers of personal interests
Research steps required to
participate in a variety of career
and educational opportunities
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Identify, explore, and review
career opportunities within the
LPSCS Cluster
Compare levels of education for
careers of personal interests
Research steps required to
participate in a variety of career
and educational opportunities
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Lesson Plan: In the News Lesson Plan: Scavenger Hunt Lesson Plan: Portfolio Maintenance / Career Formation / ETC. Extension: Extension: Extension: Extension: Lesson Plan: Self‐Assessment Lesson Plan: A Career Journey Extension: ‐
Students can go home and visit
the websites discussed in class
to look at more career
opportunities and become
familiar with what interests the
most about what we speak
about in class
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Create a multimedia
presentation on other LPSCS
celebrities
Present to class ‐
Create a current event
multimedia presentation
Conduct an oral presentation of
findings
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Resources: CTE at UNT – www.CTE.unt.edu ONETcenter ‐ http://online.onetcenter.org/ US Bureau of Labor Statistics – www.bls.gov States’ Career Clusters – http://careerclusters.org/ Achieve Texas ‐‐ http://achievetexas.org/ ‐
Create your own version of
“Career Jeopardy”
Have students write a reflection
paper of the entire Career
Exploration Module Experience
Instruct students to research
the outlook of a variety of
LPSCS career opportunities
within their community
Have students write a reflection
paper of the entire Career
Exploration Module Experience
Presentations of weekly
projects
Quiz
Host a mock “Job Interview
Day”
Develop a resume
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