Welcome to the the Career Readiness Hub! We're excited to see so many of you joining the group. To make sure we have a consistent understanding of OER resources and sharing content appropriately, please take some time to navigate the attached WISELearn slide decks, especially the "Curating and Rating Resources" deck. And don't forget to join the "Wisconsin District ACP Resources" group!
Material Type: Other
This lesson plan can be connected to a career-ready path, as it focuses on important concepts related to biodiversity and the impact of human activities on it. Students who are interested in pursuing careers in biology, environmental science, ecology, conservation, or other related fields would benefit from gaining knowledge and skills related to biodiversity. Additionally, the research skills, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills that students will develop in this lesson can be applied to a variety of careers. For example, individuals who work in conservation or environmental science may need to evaluate the impact of human activities on biodiversity and design solutions to mitigate negative effects. Overall, this lesson plan can help students gain valuable knowledge and skills that are relevant to a wide range of careers in the STEM fields.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Homework/Assignment
This is a blank copy of our District's ACP Directory that we use as a reference for all work based learning experiences. All teachers have access to this document and can add to the list at any time. All career clusters are listed on this document to meet the needs of all students. This resource can be used as a template for any school district.
Material Type: Student Guide
Students create a resume for their future selves. This way they can see/plan what they want their future to look like. This can also tie into a goal setting unit. I've use an assigment similar to this in Career Exploration.
Material Type: Self Assessment
This career-connected learning document houses two resource guides for both teachers and students at Oconomowoc High School. Each resource guide is modeled after the DPI's Academic & Career Planning resource: Know, Explore, Plan & Go. While exploring our school's current status in regards to career-connected learning, we discovered a need for an accessible, centralized resource for current and future educators. After collecting student feedback, we also discovered that students have a need for an accessible, centralized resource guide, as well. This document is a living document, and as career-connected learning evolves and expands at Oconomowoc High Scholl, our goal is that our resource guides not only helps make that possible, but evolves as well.These documents will be housed in Class Link, in Xello, and under staff and student bookmarks on our school's intranet.
Material Type: Student Guide, Teaching/Learning Strategy
This is a lesson plan for a professional luncheon. It goes over dress attire, dining etiquette, social expectations and other resources needed to help students successfully participate their first business luncheon. This was part of a resource guide developed for teachers and students.
Material Type: Lesson
This project is useful for math classes that have an opportunity to allow students to explore deeper into math related careers.
Material Type: Learning Task
This event occurs every February at Oconomwoc High School. The goal of the event is to raise money for Children's Hospital behavioral and mental health programs, to reduce the stigma around talking about mental health, and to provide students with opportunities to explore careers in the mental health field.
Material Type: Other
This resource contains the documents used by students in our Global Sustainability cohort who participated in a bilingual action project with a community partner. The projects are designed to help students develop professional skills by reflecting on goals they want to achieve through participation in the project. The students complete an initial reflection, multiple check-ins throughout the year and an end of the year reflection. The students also create an impact report that is shared with their community partner.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This is an activity designed to have students develop soft skills, specifically communication in a computer science setting using python and the repl IDE. It can be given as a full document, broken up into a jigsaw activity and altered to accomodate different computer languages and IDEs. The goal is that students develop needed skills for a career that we don't generally practice in class but are still highly valued by future jobs, even outside of IT. This was created for english readers but can be altered for any language.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
In this project-based learning lesson plan, students will explore the historical narratives surrounding the Holocaust and the significance of its impact on the world. Through a variety of activities and assessments, students will develop their critical thinking and analytical skills, as well as their knowledge of the Holocaust and its implications. In this lesson, they will be exploring Heroes of the Holocaust.
Material Type: Homework/Assignment
Racine Unified School District has utilized the academy model for the last seven years at each of the three comprehensive high schools, Park, Case, & Horlick. Within the last year, the focus was to increase Project Based Learning (PBL) in the classrooms beyond those that are Pathway or CTE oriented. As the Instructional Coach at Horlick, I oversee PBL in the classrooms. This lesson highlights one part of how teachers implement PBL.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
This resource walks teachers and students through turning the data and results from the xello quizzes into a infographic using Canva.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This project takes students through Xello to find their future potential careers and guides them through the process of picking out a potential home. This does a great job of showing students a snapshot of their future.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This formative assessment is designed to help students choose a hypothetical (or real!) career for the purposes of imagining, researching, and writing in real-lfie circumstances. In doing so, it asks for the review, application, and synthesis of some wide-flung skills including:1) Brainstorming relevant criteria through personal reflection, research, or interview.2) Researching on reliable sources. (W.7)3) Collecing and citing sources. (W.8)4) Argumentative/Analytical thesis writing. (W.2)5) Complex sentence strategies. (L.3a)
Material Type: Homework/Assignment
This lesson is designed to help students connect learning about chemical reactions to future careers. Students will look at a career of interest and link it to a specific chemical reaction.
Material Type: Learning Task, Lesson Plan
This resource is a project that allows students to explore careers related to the topic of Genetics. Students will research a career that interests them related to Genetics, create a presentation, then present to the class.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Formative Assessment, Homework/Assignment, Rubric/Scoring Guide
Students at Oshkosh West High School put their culinary skills to the test by launching a pop-up Italian restaurant on Thursday as part of a Senior Transitions class.The student-led pop-up restaurant titled, Okie Gnocchi, aims to teach students a range of valuable skills in a real workplace setting in hopes of setting students up for success after high school.The entire process included applying and interviewing for their roles, learning to master cooking, and refining their customer service abilities.
Material Type: Unit of Study
The purpose of this lesson is to help students explore what their chosen field of study has to offer using lecture notes, Xello career program, and a guest speaker. The lesson focus is on Psychology, but it doesn’t have to be. This lesson would take 3 class periods.
Material Type: Homework/Assignment, Lesson Plan
