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Eleventh Grade ACP Lesson 5 - Choosing a College

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In this Xello interactive lesson, you’ll explore your feelings about post-secondary education and will rank the factors that are most important to you when selecting technical or 4-year colleges/universities that are a good fit for you.  You will rank these factors and will compare how the colleges that you have saved in your profile stack up to what you feel is most important.  

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Author: Lynn Aprill

Eleventh Grade ACP Lesson 4 - Exploring Colleges

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Even if you’re not sure you’ll be heading to a technical college or four-year college or university your first year after high school, you never know where your future career will  take  you.  It  may be later in your career that you decide that additional education is necessary to advance you in your field.  So why not start thinking about potential schools that  would make a good fit for you?  In this activity, you’ll explore schools in Xello to help you identify factors that you feel are important in your postsecondary education goals, saving at least 3 schools and identifying the factors that influenced your selections. 

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Author: Lynn Aprill

Eleventh Grade ACP Lesson 3 - Transferable Skills

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Workplace skills that are not specific to one career are often called soft skills or transferable skills. These are the skills that you would need to navigate most workplaces.  In this lesson, you will begin by recording your current use of transferable skills in your part-time job, volunteer, extra curricular, hobbies, and/or classroom activities and will identify the importance of these skills in your future career. Once you’ve reflected upon your current use of a few key transferable skills, you will then update the skills included in your About Me profile.

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Author: Lynn Aprill

Eleventh Grade ACP Lesson 2 - Career Demand

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In this interactive lesson, you will learn about job projections and outlook, factors that impact job demand, such as changes in technology, demographics, business practices or production methods, consumer preferences, and workplace restructuring, and explore the importance of reviewing your career plan based upon the demand for the career that interests you!

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Author: Lynn Aprill

Ninth Grade Xello Lesson 14

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• I can learn about ways to gain work experience now • I can identify future opportunities to gain experience (community service, volunteering, internships, Youth Apprenticeship) • I can gather information about the getting experience opportunities that fit best with my future career goals

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Author: Jamie Brown