Friday, January 23, 2015

What will I bring to my future career? (Day 2) Daily Plans: Monday, 26 January

Happy Monday AVID Students!!!
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Homework: 
  1. Revise your TPEQEA paragraphs by Monday night!
  2. Fill out your TRF before class on Wednesday.
  3. Work on your assignments for Coach B!
  4. Check your study calendar!
  5. Sign up for remind!
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Big Idea: Change
Essential Question: What will I bring to my future career?
Objectives: I can…
…create a Career Brainstorming Collage.
…analyze patterns in career growth.
...identify skills and jobs needed to address different scenarios.
...set and meet SMART goals.
Performance Task: Finish your Career Brainstorming Collage through at least one of the choice components, careers scenario
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Displaying IMG_1858.JPG1) Warm Up: Career Brainstorming Collage
  1. Finish your Career Brainstorming Collage that you started on Friday.
    1. Get a piece of large construction paper. This is your Career Brainstorming Collage. Organize the following tasks on your paper however you'd like, unless otherwise specified.
      1. Put your name on your paper.
      2. Put the career cluster you've chosen on your paper.
      3. Create a Strength-Weakness-Opportunity-Threat Border by writng...
        1. ...your skills along the top edge of your paper. (ex: planning lessons, patience)
        2. ...opportunities you've had along the right edge of your paper. (ex: summer conferences)
        3. ...your weaknesses along the bottom edge of your paper. (ex: not refocusing students fast enough)
        4. ...things that threaten your success along the left edge of your paper. (ex: getting tired)
      4. Look at the image showing how to reach success. Draw your own "How to Reach Success" graph. Title the graph. Label the axes.
      5. Find a quote about careers that inspires you. Underneath the quote elaborate on why you chose the quote.
      6. Add at least one of the following:
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        1. Draw and fill in the flower diagram. If you don't understand a part, add your own section.
        2. Create a pie chart depicting how you want to spend your day. (ex: 40% teaching students, 15% helping students, giving feedback, 15% working with other teachers, 15% being active and relaxing, 15% planning)
        3. Create a comic showing what you would NOT do during an interview.
        4. Draw a briefcase or totebag and what you would bring to work with you everyday.
        5. Name a company you'd like to work for. Look up the mission or vision statement of the company. Copy it onto your poster.
  2. If you are completely finished, respond to the prompt below:

 2) Literacy Block: Unpacking the Occupation Outlook Handbook
  1. Before you read:
    1. Name the career you want to enter.
    2. Predict if it is growing or not: 
      1. "If _____ (an event that is happening), then the job outlook for ______ (your career) will grow because _______ (why?)."
      2. Example: If the population of people under 25 is growing, then the job outlook for teachers will grow because more teachers are needed to educate our youth to avoid classroom overcrowding.
  2. While you read:
    1. Go to the Occupation Outlook Handbook.
    2. Search for the career you are interested in (upper right hand corner) or browse some options to choose one.
    3. Create a graphic organizer that includes:
      1. The name of the career
      2. The income
      3. The average hours worked
      4. The education needed
      5. THEN choose one topic to read about more in-depth and note the details
  3. After you read:
    1. On the back of your graphic organizer, summarize why this career is a good job choice for you.
    2. OR If in your search, you realized this was not a good fit, say why and name one career you might explore instead and why.
    3. Check off skills that people in your career generally have that you have.
3) Lesson Plan: Skills to Jobs
  1. Draw a stick figure of yourself. List your strengths around it.
  2. Write down the career you are most interested in pursuing.
  3. Log in to CFNC.org.
  4. Read about the career you chose. (Go to "Plan" > "For a Career" > "Explore Careers" > Choose your cluster of interest > Choose a career of interest > Look at "Just the Facts" and "Skills you Need".)
  5. Create a stick figure with a list of skills around it that a person in your chosen career needs.
  6. Highlight skills that overlap between you and a person in you career.
  7. Reflect in an email you send to me: What skills do you need to develop? Do you think it would be a good plan to explore other career options? Why or why not?
4) Success Workshop: SMART Revisions
  1. Set a SMART goal and work.
    1. Revise x pages of notes.
    2. Revise and comment that you are "done" on your TPEQEA paragraph.
    3. Re-organize your binders.
  2. Get your notes and binders checked!
5) Exit Ticket: Evaluate your success in meeting your goal for today. Set a SMART goal for this week (either for in or out of school).
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Homework: 
  1. Revise your TPEQEA paragraphs by Monday night!
  2. Fill out your TRF before class on Wednesday.
  3. Work on your assignments for Coach B!
  4. Check your study calendar!
  5. Sign up for remind!
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