Career Development Activities

Career Development Activities include 19 days of lesson plans designed to help a student discover specific information about himself or herself through self-knowledge, education and occupation exploration, and career planning. The broad goal of these 19 days, which are delivered sequentially in mini-units throughout the year, is to help students begin to "figure out who they are while they decide what they want to become." --U.S. Department of Labor - Finding One’s Way: Career Guidance for Disadvantaged Youth.

(The following links are PDF Documents.) 

Orientation and Wrap-up

Awareness Activities

1. The Dream - The Real Game
2. The World of Work - The Real Game
3. What’s My Line - The Real Game
4. Reality Check - The Real Game

Self-Knowledge Activities

5. Occupations Brainstorm
6. Connecting Personality to Career Clusters (Taught by School Counselors)
7. Discovering Career Interests - Career Futures OR Choices Explorer
8. Identifying Abilities and Talents/Developing Skills
9. Understanding Learning Styles (Taught by School Counselors)
10. Recognizing Values and Career Preferences
11. Moving Beyond Stereotypes: Non-traditional Occupations - Guess Who's Working Poster Lesson OR Investigating Interesting Careers Poster Lesson (Poster, KEY) (Taught by School Counselors)
12. Climbing Skills Mountain - Career Futures OR Choices Explorer

Education and Occupational Exploration and Career Planning Activities

13. Making Informed Career Choices
    • Part A (Taught by School Counselors)
    • Part B (Taught by School Counselors)
14. Searching for Occupations - Career Futures OR Choices Explorer
15. Understanding Group Behaviors and Attitudes (Taught by School Counselors)
    

    For a teacher-created computerized version of the "Get All You Can" activity that makes scoring, running the game, and viewing results more fun CLICK HERE and then select and RUN "Activity 15 Game" (Get 3.1.exe). If the program does NOT run, download and install the Free Microsoft NET at http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/downloads/updates/default.aspx

16. Developing Positive Employment Traits
17. Increasing Career Options Through Education/Lifelong Learning - Career Futures OR Choices Explorer
18. Balancing Life Roles
19. Classroom Small Group SEOP - Conduct During the Year, Not the Last Activity

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