Using ARIS open-source platform, students create a scavenger hunt/game for district students to explore local community career opportunities. Â
The objective of this lesson is to help the students better understand their agricultural career and to share the career with their peers. The students select an agricultural career using the Ag in the Classroom lesson - Agricultural Careers. They then research their career and prepare an index card with information to share. The students are instructed to create a simple outfit showing the items a person in their career might wear for their work. The students then conduct a Ag Career Fashion Show. They dress up and read from their card the information they learned about the career. To make it more fun add a party light and music for them to walk the cat walk for the fashion show!
Welcome to one of 12 Business, Marketing and Information Technology Quality Modules! The purpose of these modules is to illustrate quality examples of each of the 2018 ACTE Quality CTE Framework elements. Regardless if you are in a pre-service education program or an experienced educator, these modules will benefit your future and business & marketing program. Segment 9 addresses strategies that help students gain career knowledge and engage in education and career planning and decision-making, including career counseling, career assessments, curricula that helps students learn about careers, information about educational opportunities and workforce trends, and job search information and placement services.
Career database provides tools and resources for career exploration
Students will use online resources to investigate career clusters. Based on the research and interest survey, the student will narrow their findings to one career. The student will then create a presentation giving an overview of the career to their peers. This project was created to be used in a middle school computers class (with presentation requirements), but could be modified to be used in most any class.
You will choose from list of jobs at Green Valley Dairy. Your work will include researching this career, interviewing personnel from Green Valley Dairy within these positions, and creating a presentation which you will share with class.
There is lots of flexibility with this unit. Although it may seem small, this unit allows teachers and students explore topics in greater depth in a lecture/small group discussion format, online discussions, or student led lessons. This resources covers career options and how they affect income and standard of living; calculation of take-home pay; practice with simple tax returns; and basic employment forms, i.e. W-4, W-2.
The strength of this unit is the flexibility it provides for teachers and students. The structure of this unit allows for a variety of instructional stategies to be utilized.
Site provides resources, tools, goal planning, and personal assessments to assist with education and career planning, and to assist with personal, finance, and professional goal planning
Students are able to decide where in Texas they are going to live and then make financial choices that will correlate with the lifetyle they think they want to have. They will decide where they live, what they buy, and what they save. Once they make all of their financial decisions, they will be given a minimum salary that they will need to be able to maintain that lifestyle. They are then able to search jobs that they are interested in and see the starting salaries that they come with. This allows them to see the reality of what their lifetyle and career path is.
Student Career Info is a website dedicated to providing career information for students, educators, parents and the public.
The program features live Q&A video discussions and a digital library of topics that provide information and insight on careers and life challenges for students. Additional video sessions of experts explaining their careers are continually added. It's all free to schools.