Introduction
Hello Students! Most of you are going through the education system here at College of Southern Idaho and it is important that we start to look at the careers that are available to you after your graduate. Today we will be researching types of employment that could be given to a young man named Jake, a graduate in your field to see what type of jobs are out there.
Task
Today we will be exploring the web to find a career for Jake, a recent college graduate who just completed his degree in education. Jake has strong leadership skills, is great at math, has a strong background in business and financial interests, but does not want to work with very young children. What job in the world of education might fit Jake the best? He really wants to make a difference in the lives of students but needs help finding the right job to do so.
Process
Here are a list of things that Jake would like to be a part of his job:
- Health Insurance benefits
- Full time work, not part time.
- Working with older students, highschool-college
- Working in a field of business, money or math.
- Work throughout most of the year. Paid summer vacation.
There are thousands of jobs in the world of education and it is now your job to weed through them and find the job you see best fit for Jake.
Here are a couple websites to get you started
https://www.teacher.org/careers-in-education/
https://www.thebalance.com/what-to-do-with-a-degree-in-education-525622
You will then complete an essay explaining to me why this is the best possible career for Jake. You must have valid information and state what sources you used to figure out the best fit. The essay must be in APA format and must be at least a page and a half long. You must also tell me one career that you found available as a career in education that you did not know about before.
Evaluation
| 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | total score |
| Essay is correctly formatted. With name, title and date. Exceeds length requirements | Essay is correctly formatted with name and title. Date is missing. Meets length requirements | Essay has minor issues with formatting. Needs small corrections. Minimum length requirement. | Correct formatting hardly attempted. Does not meet minimum length requirement. | Not in APA format at all. Does not meet length requirement. | - |
| Information is clear and concise. States multiple career option. Demonstrates intelligent thought. | Information is clear. States only a couple career options. Effort is there but does not exceed expectations. | Lacking information concerning their career choices. | Only states career options does not provide specific information about each career option. | Only states one career option. Shows no effort and very little information about the one option. | - |
| Creative thought shown. Thorough research about the careers in the field of education. | Research is sufficient but limited creative thought and personal ideas are present. | Bland descriptions and ideas. Research held from mostly one website. | Only one site researched. Very little deep or creative thought about the types of careers. | No research on careers whatsoever. | - |
| Identifies a career that the student did not previously know of and gives information about what they learned about the new career option. | Identifies a new career option but does less research about this option than a student scoring a 5. | Identifies a new career option but has very little information about this career or why it interested them. | Only identifies the career does not have any valuable information about it. | Does not identify a new career. | - |
| Cites multiple website sources in which the student has obtained their information. | Cites only a couple websites in which they found information. | Cites only one informational website, but sites another source other than a website. | Cites only one informational website with no other support. | Does not cite any websites just goes off of personal information and opinion. | - |
Conclusion
Hopefully while finding a new career for Jake to fit his wants and needs you as students have learned that there are may other options for you as well. Take time to reflect and think of what kind of a job you want or need and use the tools you have used today to learn more about the career path that you may be most interested in.