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Career Education and Work
- Standard Area - 13.1: Career Awareness and Preparation
- Grade Level - 13.1.3: GRADE 3
Recognize that individuals have unique interests.
Recognize that the roles of individuals at home, in the workplace and in the community are constantly changing.
Identify the range of jobs available in the community
Describe the work done by school personnel and other individuals in the community
Explain why education and training plans are important to careers.
Explain how workers in their careers use what is learned in the classroom.
- Standard Area - 13.1: Career Awareness and Preparation
- Grade Level - 13.1.5: GRADE 5
Describe the impact of individual interests and abilities on career choices.
Describe the impact of personal interest and abilities on career choices.
Relate the impact of change to both traditional and nontraditional careers.
Describe the range of career training programs in the community such as, but not limited to:
- Two-and-four year colleges
- Career and technical education programs at centers (formerly AVTS) and high schools
- CareerLinks
- Community/recreation centers
- Faith-based organizations
- Local industry training centers
- Military
- Registered apprenticeship
- Vocational rehabilitation centers
- Web-based training
Describe the factors that influence career choices, such as, but not limited to: Geographic location
- Job description
- Salaries/benefits
- Work schedule
- Working conditions
Investigate people’s rationale for making career choices.
Identify the components of a career plan, such as, but not limited to:
- Beginnings of career portfolio
- Career goals
- Individual interests and abilities
- Training/education requirements and costs
Connect personal interests and abilities and academic strengths to personal career options.
- Standard Area - 13.1: Career Awareness and Preparation
- Grade Level - 13.1.8: GRADE 8
Relate careers to individual interests, abilities, and aptitudes.
Relate careers to personal interests, abilities and aptitudes.
Explain how both traditional and nontraditional careers offer or hinder career opportunities.
Explain the relationship of career training programs to employment opportunities.
Analyze the economic factors that impact employment opportunities, such as, but not limited to: Competition
- Geographic location
- Global influences
- Job growth
- Job openings
- Labor supply
- Potential advancement
- Potential earnings
- Salaries/benefits
- Unemployment
Analyze the relationship of school subjects, extracurricular activities, and community experiences to career preparation.
Create an individualized career plan including, such as, but not limited to:
- Assessment and continued development of career portfolio
- Career goals
- Cluster/pathway opportunities Individual interests and abilities
- Training/education requirements and financing
Choose personal electives and extra curricular activities based upon personal career interests, abilities and academic strengths
- Standard Area - 13.1: Career Awareness and Preparation
- Grade Level - 13.1.11: GRADE 11
Relate careers to individual interests, abilities, and aptitudes.
Analyze career options based on personal interests, abilities, aptitudes, achievements and goals.
Analyze how the changing roles of individuals in the workplace relate to new opportunities within career choices.
Evaluate school-based opportunities for career awareness/preparation, such as, but not limited to:
- Career days
- Career portfolio
- Community service
- Cooperative education
- Graduation/senior project
- Internship
- Job shadowing
- Part-time employment
- Registered apprenticeship
- School-based enterprise
Analyze the relationship between career choices and career preparation opportunities, such as, but not limited to:
- Associate degree
- Baccalaureate degree
- Certificate/licensure
- Entrepreneurship
- Immediate part/full time employment
- Industry training
- Military training
- Professional degree
- Registered apprenticeship
- Tech Prep
- Vocational rehabilitation centers
Assess the implementation of the individualized career plan through the ongoing development of the career portfolio.
Review personal high school plan against current personal career goals and select postsecondary opportunities based upon personal career interests.
- Standard Area - 13.2: Career Acquisition (Getting a Job)
- Grade Level - 13.2.3: GRADE 3
Identify appropriate speaking and listening techniques used in conversation.
Discuss resources available in researching job opportunities, such as, but not limited to:
- Internet
- Magazines
- Newspapers
Identify the importance of developing a plan for the future.
Discuss the importance of the essential workplace skills, such as, but not limited to:
- Dependability
- Health/safety
- Team building
- Technology
- Standard Area - 13.2: Career Acquisition (Getting a Job)
- Grade Level - 13.2.5: GRADE 5
Apply appropriate speaking and listening techniques used in conversation.
Identify and review resources available in researching job opportunities, such as, but not limited to:
- Internet
- Magazines
- Newspapers
Compose and compare a business and a personal letter.
Identify individualized career portfolio components, such as, but not limited to:
- Achievements
- Awards/recognitions
- Career exploration results
- Career plans
- Community service involvement/projects
- Interests/hobbies
- Personal career goals
- Selected school work
- Self inventories
Apply to daily activities, the essential workplace skills, such as, but not limited to:
- Commitment
- Communication
- Dependability
- Health/safety
- Personal initiative
- Scheduling/time management
- Team building
- Technical literacy
- Technology
- Standard Area - 13.2: Career Acquisition (Getting a Job)
- Grade Level - 13.2.8: GRADE 8
Identify effective speaking and listening skills used in a job interview.
Evaluate resources available in researching job opportunities, such as, but not limited to:
- CareerLinks
- Internet (i.e. O*NET)
- Networking
- Newspapers
- Professional associations
- Resource books (that is Occupational Outlook Handbook, PA Career Guide)
Prepare a draft of career acquisition documents, such as, but not limited to:
- Job application
- Letter of appreciation following an interview
- Letter of introduction
- Request for letter of recommendation
- Resume
Develop an individualized career portfolio including components, such as, but not limited to:
- Achievements
- Awards/recognitions
- Career exploration results
- Career plans
- Community service involvement/projects
- Interests/hobbies
- Personal career goals
- Selected school work
- Self inventories
Explain, in the career acquisition process, the importance of the essential workplace skills/knowledge, such as, but not limited to:
- Commitment
- Communication
- Dependability
- Health/safety
- Laws and regulations (that is Americans With Disabilities Act, child labor laws, Fair Labor Standards Act, OSHA, Material Safety Data Sheets)
- Personal initiative
- Self-advocacy
- Scheduling/time management
- Team building
- Technical literacy
- Technology
- Standard Area - 13.2: Career Acquisition (Getting a Job)
- Grade Level - 13.2.11: GRADE 11
Apply effective speaking and listening skills used in a job interview.
Apply research skills in searching for a job.
- CareerLinks
- Internet (i.e. O*NET)
- Networking
- Newspapers
- Professional associations
- Resource books (that is Occupational Outlook Handbook, PA Career Guide)
Develop and assemble, for career portfolio placement, career acquisition documents, such as, but not limited to:
- Job application
- Letter of appreciation following an interview
- Letter of introduction
- Postsecondary education/training applications
- Request for letter of recommendation
- Resume
Analyze, revise, and apply an individualized career portfolio to chosen career path.
Demonstrate, in the career acquisition process, the application of essential workplace skills/knowledge, such as, but not limited to:
- Commitment
- Communication
- Dependability
- Health/safety
- Laws and regulations (that is Americans With Disabilities Act, child labor laws, Fair Labor Standards Act, OSHA, Material Safety Data Sheets)
- Personal initiative
- Self-advocacy
- Scheduling/time management
- Team building
- Technical literacy
- Technology
- Standard Area - 13.3: Career Retention and Advancement
- Grade Level - 13.3.3: GRADE 3
Identify attitudes and work habits that contribute to success at home and school.
Identify how to cooperate at both home and school.
Explain effective group interaction terms, such as, but not limited to:
- Compliment
- Cooperate
- Encourage
- Participate
Discuss how time is used at both home and school.
Identify the changes in family and friend's roles at home, at school and in the community.
Define and describe the importance of lifelong learning.
- Standard Area - 13.3: Career Retention and Advancement
- Grade Level - 13.3.5: GRADE 5
Explain how student attitudes and work habits transfer from the home and school to the workplace.
Explain the importance of working cooperatively with others at both home and school to complete a task.
Identify effective group interaction strategies, such as, but not limited to:
- Building consensus
- Communicating effectively
- Establishing ground rules
- Listening to others
Develop a personal schedule based on activities and responsibilities at both home and school.
Describe the impact of role changes at home, school, and at work, and how the role changes impact career advancement and retention.
Describe how personal interests and abilities impact lifelong learning.
- Standard Area - 13.3: Career Retention and Advancement
- Grade Level - 13.3.8: GRADE 8
Determine attitudes and work habits that support career retention and advancement.
Analyze the role of each participant’s contribution in a team setting
Explain and demonstrate conflict resolution skills:
- Constructive criticism
- Group dynamics
- Managing/leadership
- Mediation
- Negotiation
- Problem solving
Analyze budgets and pay statements, such as, but not limited to:
- Charitable contributions
- Expenses
- Gross pay
- Net pay
- Other income
- Savings
- Taxes
Identify and apply time management strategies as they relate to both personal and work situations.
Identify characteristics of the changing workplace including Americans With Disabilities Act accommodations, and explain their impact on jobs and employment.
Identify formal and informal lifelong learning opportunities that support career retention and advancement.
- Standard Area - 13.3: Career Retention and Advancement
- Grade Level - 13.3.11: GRADE 11
Evaluate personal attitudes and work habits that support career retention and advancement.
Evaluate team member roles to describe and illustrate active listening techniques:
- Clarifying
- Encouraging
- Reflecting
- Restating
- Summarizing
Evaluate conflict resolution skills as they relate to the workplace:
- Constructive criticism
- Group dynamics
- Managing/leadership
- Mediation
- Negotiation
- Problem solving
Develop a personal budget based on career choice, such as, but not limited to:
- Charitable contributions
- Fixed/variable expenses
- Gross pay
- Net pay
- Other income
- Savings
- Taxes
Evaluate time management strategies and their application to both personal and work situations.
Evaluate strategies for career retention and advancement in response to the changing global workplace.
Evaluate the impact of lifelong learning on career retention and advancement.
- Standard Area - 13.4: Entrepreneurship
- Grade Level - 13.4.3: GRADE 3
Describe the character traits of successful entrepreneurs, such as, but not limited to:
- Adaptability
- Creative thinking
- Ethical behavior
- Leadership
- Positive attitude
- Risk-taking
Describe age-appropriate entrepreneurial opportunities, such as, but not limited to:
- Bake sale
- Crafts
- Lemonade stand
- Pet care
- Standard Area - 13.4: Entrepreneurship
- Grade Level - 13.4.5: GRADE 5
Identify the risks and rewards of entrepreneurship.
Discuss the entrepreneurial character traits of historical or contemporary entrepreneurs.
Discuss the steps entrepreneurs take to bring their goods or services to market, such as, but not limited to:
- Marketing
- Production
- Research and development
- Selection of goods and services
- Standard Area - 13.4: Entrepreneurship
- Grade Level - 13.4.8: GRADE 8
Compare and contrast entrepreneurship to traditional employment, such as, but not limited to:
- Benefits
- Job security
- Operating costs
- Wages
Evaluate how entrepreneurial character traits influence career opportunities.
Identify and describe the basic components of a business plan, such as, but not limited to:
- Business idea
- Competitive analysis
- Daily operations
- Finances/budget
- Marketing
- Productive resources (human, capital, natural)
- Sales forecasting
- Standard Area - 13.4: Entrepreneurship
- Grade Level - 13.4.11: GRADE 11
Analyze entrepreneurship as it relates to personal career goals and corporate opportunities.
Analyze entrepreneurship as it relates to personal character traits.
Develop a business plan for an entrepreneurial concept of personal interest and identify available resources, such as, but not limited to:
- Community based organizations (that is chambers of commerce, trade/technical associations, Industrial Resource Centers)
- Financial institutions
- School-based career centers Small Business Administration services (that is SCORE, Small Business Development Centers, Entrepreneurial Development Centers)
- Venture capital