Career+Explorations

Career Cluster Explorations is a 70-hour course designed for students to improve communication skills, learn about the value of work, develop leadership skills, explore career opportunities, and become aware of basic employability skills.

FBLA is an are integral, cocurricular components of this course. These organizations serve as a means to enhance classroom instruction while helping students develop leadership abilities, expand workplace-readiness skills, and broaden opportunities for personal and professional growth.

Students will learn:
 * Technology
 * Work Ethics
 * Communication Skills
 * Employability Skills
 * Leadership
 * Career Opportunities



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=**Bellringers**=

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 * Employability Skills**
 * Auditory and Speech Ability || [|View] ||
 * Basic Skills || [|View] ||
 * Control Movement || [|View] ||
 * Endurance || [|View] ||
 * Fine Manipulative Ability || [|View] ||
 * Flexibility, Balance, and Coordination || [|View] ||
 * Idea Generation and Reasoning || [|View] ||
 * Interpersonal Skills || [|View] ||
 * Memory || [|View] ||
 * Perceptual Ability || [|View] ||
 * Personal Qualities || [|View] ||
 * Physical Strength || [|View] ||
 * Quantitative Ability || [|View] ||
 * Reaction Time || [|View] ||
 * Resource Management || [|View] ||
 * Spatial Ability || [|View] ||
 * Thinking Skills || [|View] ||
 * Using Information || [|View] ||
 * Using Systems || [|View] ||
 * Using Technology || [|View] ||
 * Verbal Ability || [|View] ||
 * Visual Ability || [|View] ||

=Course Outline - 1st Nine Weeks=
 * Work Ethic** will be assessed everyday - Students will demonstrate basic technology skills (managing files, using Internet, using applications) and learning the personal and societal benefits of work.

Each week will feature a career cluster in which students will investigate and learn what different careers are available under the cluster.

Jan 17-27 - Chapter 1 Self Awareness (Interests, Values, Skills, Aptitudes, Personality, and Learning Styles)
(**Employability Skills)**

- Kuder Assessments

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Chapter 2 Thinking About Work (What is Work All About and How Work is Changing)

 * (Career Opportunities)**



February 2, 2012
==Based off the test you took on yesterday, go online and research possible careers that may fit your personality type and choose 3 jobs and write a one page report on them and explain why you may like to work that type of job.==

Chapter 3 - Researching Careers (Career Choices and Research)

 * (Career Opportunities)**

Chapter 4 Making Career Decisions (Making Decisions and Career Strategies)

 * (Career Opportunities)**



= March 5-9 = = 3rd 9 Weeks Exam =



Chapter 5 Planning Your Career (Planning and Designing a Career Plan - Portfolio)
(Career Opportunities)



Chapter 6 Finding a Job (Gathering Leads and Organizing Job Searches)
(Career Opportunities)



Nine Weeks Exams




April 2-6 - Chapter 7 Applying for a Job (Presenting Yourself and Putting Best Foot Forward)
(Communication)



April 16-20 - Chapter 8 On The Job & Chapter 14 Managing Money (Workplace and Employer's Expectations)


Nov. 7-11- Chapter 8 On The Job & Chapter 14 Managing Money (Workplace and Employer's Expectations) Students will prepare a weekly budget and balance a check register

Nov. 14-18-Chapter 9 Working With Others (Building Relationships and Teamwork) Students will work in Groups and create a teamwork report

Nov. 21 - 22 - Chapter 9 Working With Others (Building Relationships and Teamwork)



Nov. 28 - Dec 2 - Chapter 10 Basic Skills Count (Getting Your Message Across and Applying Other Skills) (Communication)



Dec. 5 -9 - Chapter 12 Moving Toward Your Goals (School-to-Work Transition and Goals)



Dec. 13-17 - Review and 9 Weeks Test

Dec. 21, 2011 2nd 9 Weeks Semester Exam



Dec. 12-16 Chapter 13 Our Economic System (Free Enterprise - Be Your Own Boss)

Nov. 15-19 - Chapter 14 Managing Your Money (Money You Earn and You, the Consumer)

Nov. 22-Dec. 3 - Chapter 15 Living a Balanced Life (Work Isn't Everything and Giving Something Back)

Dec. 6-10 - Chapter 16 Looking Beyond Today (Dealing with Change and Lifelong Learning)

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