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Career Cruising Student Exploratory Lesson Plan 01 31 2011  

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Unit Title (?)Choose a title that draws attention to and describes your hands-on, applied academic project.

Career Cruising Student Exploratory Lesson Plan 01 31 2011

Related Disciplines (?)List the type of courses that might use this unit (i.e. Algebra 1, General Science, Shop, Drafting, & Pre-Engineering.)

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Project Author's Name (?)The name of the lesson author

Michael Brown

Brief Project Description (?)help other teachers decide if this project is something they can do, please briefly indicate the equipment and materials they'd need to do this project. For example, you might need a mill, lathe, protractors and 4x2x0.25 pieces of aluminum for each student. Note that you can attach detailed material and equipment lists below.

Outline for Personal Development Assignments
1. Personal Development: Preview Questionnaires
• Preview questions for anticipatory set
2. Personal Development: Self-Assessments
• Explore and complete all the online self-assessment surveys
• Review, edit, and save results
• Use of the following sites: careercruising.com , cacareerzone.com ,
keirsey.com, HumanMetrics.com
• Answer questions relevant to self-assessments
3. Personal Development: Career Exploration
• Review self-assessment recommendations for career (s)
• Explore careers of interest and passion
• Explore job descriptions, salary, work environment, etc.
• Narrow focus to careers of your calling, interest, passion, subject, cluster, or industry
• Use of the following sites: careercruising.com, cacareerzone.com ,
californiacolleges.edu , sierracollege.edu
• Answer questions relevant to career exploration
4. Personal Development: Action Plan
• Explore the multiple pathways to career goals
• Choosing post-secondary strategies of further education/training by planning for the university, college, technical school, military,
• Use of the following sites: careercruising.com , cacareerzone.com .
californiacolleges.edu, csumentor.edu, ca.gov, and more
• Answer questions relevant to exploring steps necessary for career success
• Design, create, and save a resume to career portfolio
5. Personal Development: Essay
• Write a personal and formal two or more page synthesis/evaluative essay with six paragraphs describing one’s personal strategy of success by reviewing the information provided in this Personal Development exploration
6. Personal Development: Presentation
• Additional assignment for students to present their findings in a formal and personal presentation to peers, teachers, and administrators

Materials & Equipment Required (?)help other teachers decide if this project is something they can do, please briefly indicate the equipment and materials they'd need to do this project. For example, you might need a mill, lathe, protractors and 4x2x0.25 pieces of aluminum for each student. Note that you can attach detailed material and equipment lists below.

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Time for Lesson (?)What is the realistic amount of time students require to do this project? Again, this helps others in deciding how to fit this project into class hours.

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Links & Resources (?)links to other useful web sites for ordering materials, showing as examples of the concept being used in industry, giving demonstrations on an online movie and providing other similar resources.

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