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What Color is Your Parachute? For Teens

What Color is Your Parachute? For Teens. By Richard Nelson Bolles and Carol Christen. Why college talk in 9th grade?. to explore who you are what’s important to you what you like to do to discover what you’d love to do with your life life experiences are valuable Lesson 1.

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What Color is Your Parachute? For Teens

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  1. What Color is Your Parachute?For Teens By Richard Nelson Bolles and Carol Christen

  2. Why college talk in 9th grade? • to explore who you are • what’s important to you • what you like to do • to discover what you’d love to do with your life • life experiences are valuable Lesson 1

  3. “Hold on to those dreams of being a firefighter or ship captain or doctor or nurse. Don’t let others tell you that those are silly dreams. I think so many people end up doing, consciously or not, what others expect of them, or they settle for less because they think achieving their dream is too hard.” -Rob Sanders, Pediatric Physician, age 28

  4. What you love to do reveals yours interests and skills! • How do you spend your time? • What is the most fun? • What is your favorite subject? • What captures your attention?

  5. Discover Your Favorite Interests 1. When you’ve got free time, what do you like to do? 2. What’s your favorite subject in school? 3. When you’re in the magazine section of a library or bookstore, what type of magazine will you pick up and read first?

  6. Discover Your Favorite Interests Cont. 4. When I’m doing _____, I lose track of time and don’t want anyone or anything to disturb me. 5. If someone asked you what your favorite interest is, what would you say?

  7. Transferable Skills • Also called your “best skills” • Skills grow as we grow • Skill = developed aptitude or ability • Foundation for knowing what you love to do. • Sometimes called functional skills, skills that you do. • 3 types: physical, mental & interpersonal

  8. Identifying Your Skills • Sample story • Write short stories that describe how you completed your project or worked out a solution to the problem you had.

  9. Story Outline 1. Give your project/problem/activity a title. 2. Goal or Problem: What was your goal-that is, what were you trying to accomplish or solve? 3. Obstacles: What made achieving your goal (or solving the problem) difficult? How did you overcome these obstacles?

  10. Story Outline Cont. 4. Time Frame: How long did it take you to achieve your goal or solve your problem? 5. Outcome: What happened? Did things go as you expected, or did something unexpected happen.

  11. Homework • Write 5 short stories in Word. (about 1 page in length) • Follow outline from sample story. • Make sure you emphasize your skills in your stories. • Highlight or bold your skills in your document. • Due date TBD. Lesson 1 stops here!

  12. Discover Your Skills • Identify the skills from your stories using the 3 worksheets provided: Skills with Things, Information, & People. • Put an X in box #1 under each skill used in story #1. • Put an X in box #2 under each skill used in story #2. • Continue for stories 3-5. Lesson 2

  13. Identify Your Best Transferable Skills • Chunks of time • Can-do skills • Want-to skills • Cross out your can-do skills • Keep skills that show up in 3 or more stories.

  14. Finding Your Best Skills • Circle 10 skills you most enjoy using. • Type them into a Word doc. • Think about how much you want to use each skill. • Put the skills in order from most favorite to least favorite.

  15. Top 5 Skills • Look at top 5 skills: these are your best skills. • Write these 5 skills on My Parachute in the section “My Best Transferable Skills” • Enter last weeks interests on My Parachute in the section “My Favorite Interests” Lesson 2 stops here!

  16. The Party -Have you had a part-time or summer job where work was boring but you still went? -Or a class that you didn’t really like but you liked your classmates? A good job is more that what you’re good at…it’s discovering what kinds of people you enjoy working with! *Each person take a yellow sticky note. Lesson 3

  17. Realistic People who have athletic or mechanical ability or prefer to work with objects, tools, plants or animals or to be outdoors. Described as: frank, genuine, honest, humble, modest, natural, practical, shy, and thrifty.

  18. Investigative People who like to observe, learn, investigate, analyze, evaluate or solve problems, primarily of a scientific or mathematical nature. Described as: analytical, cautious, curious, independent, intellectual, rational, reserved.

  19. Artistic People who have artistic, innovative or intuitional abilities and who like unstructured situations and use their creativity/imagination. Described as: complicated, disorderly, emotional, expressive, idealistic, imaginative, impulsive, open, nonconforming, original.

  20. Social People who like to work with people to inform, enlighten, help, train, or cure them. Solve problems through discussion. Described as: cooperative, friendly, generous, helpful, patient, responsible, social, sympathetic, warm, understanding.

  21. Enterprising People who like to work, with people, influencing, persuading, leading or managing them for economic gain or for an organizational goal. Enjoy leadership positions. Described as: adventurous, agreeable, ambitious, attention-getting, domineering, energetic, popular, self-confident, sociable, impulsive.

  22. Conventional People who like to work with data, have clerical or numerical ability, detail orientated, and following through on instructions. Described as: conforming, careful, efficient, obedient, orderly, practical, thrifty, unimaginative, persistent.

  23. Who You Love To Work With R for Realistic: Do it! I for Investigative: Explore it! A for Artistic: Invent or create it! S for Social: Share it! E for Enterprising: Start or sell it! C for Conventional: Keep it going!

  24. Holland Code • Three letters you selected are your Holland code. • Based on a theory by vocational psychologist, Dr. John Holland. • “People Environments,” the types of personalities we most like to be with. • Everyone has 3 preferred people environments from RIASEC.

  25. Holland Code • Take test & explore job possibilities at: http://www.cacareerzone.org. -click on Graphic, then Assess Yourself, then Interest Profiler. Take the test to find your Holland Code. Is it the same as the one from class?

  26. Holland Code • Put your Holland Code on your Parachute under “My Favorite Types of People.” • Write a short statement about the types of people you like to be with. What does your Holland Code mean to you? Lesson 3 Stops Here!

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