Loeffelholz: Career Development (8th Grade Careers) 320100
2014-2015
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8 Careers Concepts
Objectives
Define vocabulary terms related to careers by completing various L2J activities.
Vocabulary Careers: Foundation
Standards
LA:8.1.5
Vocabulary
Define and understand vocabulary terms by manipulating the SMART Board
activities, iPad apps, worksheets, etc.
Career
Exploration
Steve Jobs
Commencement Speech
Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is
particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the power,
persuasiveness or beauty of the text.
LA: 8.1.6
Write a persuasive blog
regarding “How to Live
Your Life”. Comment
on blogs of classmates.
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and
style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
LA:8.2.1,
8.2.2
Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update
individual or shared writing products in response to ongoing feedback, including
new arguments or information.
LA:8.3.3
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar, usage,
capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Who Am I?
Where Am I Going?
How Do I Get There?
Understand the purpose of a Personal Learning Plan and create one through
Nebraska Career Information System (NCIS).
LA:8.2.1
C4C
3.1
Complete Qualities for Success, What are Skills?, and a Career Cluster Inventory
to help student learn about themselves and how their skills and abilities would
relate to career success.
2.1
Students will complete an Occupations Scavenger Hunt and an If I Become
activity to familiarize themselves with the NCIS website and the many careers
available to them.
2.3
Students will be able to identify compositions of career clusters and the
relationship to the career field by researching and creating a mobile.
1.2, 5.1,
5.2
Learners will answer what work is, why people work, and what rewards they
want from work by completing exploration activities.
1.3
Students will make choices and complete problem solving activities regarding
work and income by completing the Reality Check simulation.
3.2
Learners will complete a career action plan to meet career goals by completing
SMART goals.
3.2
Students will review what employability skills are by completing various
activities regarding working together, listening skills, dependability and time
management.
1.3, 2.2,
2.3
Learners will blog and respond to classmates regarding describing extended
learning opportunities that will help build their employability skills. They will
use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual
or shared writing products in response to ongoing feedback, including new
arguments or information.
2.4, 4.1
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar, usage,
capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
LA:8.2.1
Learners will plan for high school by completing a course plan with Mr. Mizner.
5.3
Students will watch Centura School graduation and compare and contrast their
Loeffelholz: Career Development (8th Grade Careers) 320100
2014-2015
goals to the graduates before them.
Assessments
Create a poster comparing and contrasting personal postsecondary education
options, using Nebraska Career Instructional Systems website
6.1, 6.2
L2J
Students will be assessed on vocabulary words by taking weekly L2J quizzes.
At the end of the quarter, a major part of the quarterfinal will be vocabulary
words.
LA:8.1.5
Online Portfolio
The online portfolio (PLP) compiling student research and project information
will be assessed at the end of the quarter.
C4C
3.1, 3.2,
3.3