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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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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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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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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• I can personalize my Xello page by adding pictures
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• I can identify my personality style • I can explore how my personality style will help me in three careers that are a good match for me
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• I can successfully match each Holland Code Label with the description of the personality type • I can identify how three of my Saved Careers are good matches for my personality
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• I can apply background knowledge of personality styles and apply them to career choices • I can better understand how personality types relate to core job tasks and workplace environments
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• I can apply knowledge of personality styles and describe how they connect to a job in a business that I am familiar with • I can explain how my personality can be helpful at home, school, work, and other areas of my life
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• I can reflect on how my personality style has helped me relate to others at school and one other environment (ex. Clubs, sports teams, workplaces, or volunteer activities)
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• I can review three career profiles in My Saved Options and will record how I feel about these saved careers • I can identify factors that I like and dislike about these jobs
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• I can explore important career factors that should be considered when choosing a career • I can understand six career factors that people consider when choosing a career • I can prioritize (rank) these career factors and compare them with careers that I have explored
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• I can explore three of My Saved Careers and assess if these jobs are aligned with those career factors that I feel are most important
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• I can complete the Skills Lab assessment to identify skills that I want to use in my future career • I can reflect upon the skills that I currently have that will be useful in my future career and explore options for developing the skills that I need to gain in the future
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• I can evaluate explore careers that are a good match for me based upon my Skills Lab results • I can update my saved careers based upon the skills that I prefer to use
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• I can identify and reflect upon skills that I may need in my career • I can identify skills that I am practicing today that I may use in my future career • I can identify skills that I need to develop
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• I can identify experiences that helped me develop a work-related skill • I can add work experiences (volunteering, joining a club, playing a sport, part-time work) that I have gained that connect to building workplace readiness skills and knowledge
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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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• I can explore school offerings including courses or specialized programs to learn more about opportunities for getting work-related experience while I am in high school
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• I can add work-based learning opportunities available through my school that I am interested in pursuing to the Career Goals on My Plan • I can add part-time work experiences that I will pursue during high school to the Career Goals on My Plan
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