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Introduce students to diverse career opportunities, clusters, and course planning in a 3-day module combining classroom and computer lab sessions. Administrators must schedule lab liaisons for student engagement.
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Career ExplorationForSEVENTH GRADE Leticia Arce: Facilitator, Career and Technical Education 915-545-5900 lxarce@episd.org David Romaka: CTE District Counselor 915-545-5900 drromaka@episd.org
Why Career Exploration/Economics • Create early career awareness • Expose students to available career opportunities through career exploration • Introduce the student to career clusters • Begin planning for high school courses of study
Typical Schedule • Three Day Module 1 day in the classroom 3 days in the computer lab Last day for students make-up work • Administrators will schedule Labs with your lab Liaison • All work must be completed by December
ModulesModules/Middle School/S.S., Grade 7/Unit 7: Career Cruising
Classroom-Day 1 • Show and Discuss Attachments from Forethought/Lesson 1: • Review16 clusters.pdf • Career_Exploration_Module_intro_power_point.ppt • CLUSTER_MATCH_WORKSHEET.DOC • CLUSTER_WORKSHEET.DOC
Computer Lab-Day 4 • Have students fill out CLUSTER_WORKSHEET.doc./What Career Interest You? • Go to achievetexas.org/Programs of Study • Select their Cluster and answer: • Question 1 by selecting-College and Career Planning Guide for Students • Question 2 by selecting-Covers for Programs of Study • Qusetion 3 by selection-Career Cluster Programs of Study Model
Computer Lab-Day 2 • Student Logins and passwords • Have students login and change password after login • LOGIN: ep-123456 • PASSWORD: YYYYMMDD • Admin Side • Login to www.careercruising/school • Adding New Students • Click-Add New Student • Use a default password (YYYYMMDD) • Under Student Administration select Assign students to an Advisor/Select Grade and view list
Computer Lab-Day 3 • Students login to Career Cruising and go to Assessments and complete: • Match Maker and Save (Only do 39 questions) • Skills and Save • My Career Cluster Selection (Under Student Portfolio) and Save
Make-up-Day 5 • Have students complete all unfinished work.
Y-Generation • How do you recognize someone who is in the • Y- Generation?