Setting Career Goals

1. Setting Career Goals The Self-Advocacy Strategy

2. Self-Advocacy: A Key to Your Success • Watch the Self-Advocacy Video labeled Introduction • Things you will need to do • Take notes • Participate • Take the quiz

3. What does SHARE stand for? Watch the Self-Advocacy video labeled SHARE to find out!! SHARE You will need to: 1. Take notes 2. Demonstrate the SHARE strategy!

4. Conference It is time to take charge of your meetings! Watch the Self-Advocacy video labeled Conference

5. Practice! Practice! Practice! The Key to running your meeting with confidence! • Time to Practice!! • With the class read your opening speech and pass out your booklet! • Set the room to look like the conference room • OR • ask Mrs. Lee to schedule the conference room for you!

6. PPT Meeting PPT means Planning and Placement Team The meeting is about you and for you! In the meeting the team makes a plan for the year. This plan is to help you in school and to get ready for the time you are ready to leave high school. You are a member of the team. Take an Active role!

7. Preparation! Success is about preparing for the future You will need to: Develop your opening speech Design and produce a booklet that describes YOU. This booklet will be given to each member of the PPT or PCP team. PCP is Person Center Planning: It is about YOU and designing a plan for your future

8. Person Centered Planning PCP is Person Center Planning: It is about YOU and designing a plan for your future • Participate in a PCP practice session! • Planning comes first! Answer these questions: You can use your Bridges book to help you • What activities do you like? __________________________________________ • Would you like to work inside or outside? _______________________________ • What will you do when you graduate from school? _______________________ • Who will you need to help you get there? Use your Circle of Friends to help you decide. • __________________________________________________________________

9. Game Time Play the Career Game Play a game with the career cards! Fill out the sheets to add to your Portfolio

10. Setting Career Goals: The Text Read Chapter 1: Why Set Career Goals? Great Job!! Let’s move on When you are reading: Find the main points Use the sticky note strategy to help you I will ask you to tell me the main points Did you know that you already have a job? Well you do!!! You are a STUDENT Let’s learn about setting career goals.

11. General Study Skills • It is time to look at our job as a student • You will have a partner to work with • Read the handout: Part One General Study Skills • Do the Brainstorm activity at the bottom of the page. • Additional Activity: Prepare a handout of the materials

12. Read Basketball Dreams as a group We will need to choose : 1 person to read 1 person to record the main points and evidence after the reading Highlighting in 2 colors (main point and evidence) Everyone to join the discussion Chapter One: Setting Goals for Yourself

13. What Do You Think? Why is it important to set clear goals for yourself?

14. What Do You Think? • Why is it hard to stick with a goal? • Why is it easy to give up?

15. Support Circle A support circle includes all the people that can help you be successful with your goals. Everyone has people who will help Who are YOUR people Complete the STAR chart! (go to the next slide to see what the STAR chart is)

16. Support Circle Friends, Family The people closest to you (Family) People you know Groups and Clubs can be in any category Complete these circles with STAR people

17. Lesson 1: Creating Goals for Yourself • Read Take a Look • Use Foldables for defining: • Daily Goals • Short-term Goals • Long-term Goals We will complete page 11 together!!

18. Take the Inventory!! • Learning Styles Inventory • How do you learn best? • Career Interest Inventory • What are you interested in doing for a career?

19. Learning Styles These strategies help me be successful!! Knowing how you learn will help you do a better job as a student

20. Career Interests • Read Chapter 2 Opportunities at Work from the textbook Setting Career Goals When you are reading: Find the main points Use the sticky note strategy to help you I will ask you to tell me the main points

21. Read Chapter 3 Discovering Skills from the textbook Setting Career Goals Discovering Skills Complete Interest and Skills Inventories in the Build a Bridge Booklet

22. Learning About Jobs • Read Chapter 4 Learning About Jobs from the textbook Setting Career Goals • Choose a career to research • Complete the career research worksheet

23. Careers • What did you find out about the career you chose? • Do you need to readjust your goals? • Do you need to add in new support people into your circle? • These are questions you need to ask yourself. • We will be there to help!!

24. Timing and Skills • Do one (1) of the pre-vocational timing kits • Name of the timing kit: _______________________________________ • My score 1st trial 2nd trial 3rd trial ______ ______ _______ Date: ________________

25. Portfolio Tell a story about YOU by developing a Career Portfolio • Your Portfolio will be divided into sections: • Assessments • Interests/Skills • Sample Work • Career Exploration • Add the information to your portfolio as you collect it

26. Career Exploration • Choose a career to research • The career is: _______________________________________ Directions: 1.Watch the film 2. Complete the career research worksheet