This week we will be working on our Career Investigations by teams. Each team was able to pick a career cluster and from that career cluster they will research four careers that fall within that cluster. Career Clusters
Each profession will be presented in the form of a foldable that includes these categories:
Career / Nature of Work / Working Conditions / Job Outlook/Low, Medium and High Salary range in the field / Related Occupations / Professional Organizations for more information.
Students will be using the Occupational Outlook Handbook for their research.
After each team has completed their research, they will present their findings to the class. Each team will then decide which career they would like to spotlight. Their "Spotlight on Careers" choice will be turned into an audio file that will be uploaded onto this blog. (The students have asked me to password protect so that only those with a password will be able to listen.)
I compare this assignment to learning how to do long division. When a student is learning how to do long division, a teacher will NOT let them use a calculator while developing the concept and the skill. After a student understands long division and can perform it successfully, they are then permitted to use one for various assignments.
The goal of this assignment is to help students lean how to do career research while reinforcing employable skills like reading, writing, communicating, team work, etc. Once they have successfully completed their Career Cluster research, then I will introduce multimedia tools.
Each class will have several careers they want to spotlight. We hope to be able to find a few brave parents who are employed in those professions that will be willing to come in and share the information about their career with the students.
This we hope to video tape as we begin to grow our library of career information for students.
Please check back as this project continues to develop.
