Career Day. What Do You Want to be When You Grow Up

Introduction

I recently started a new career. I started a long time ago in preparing of attaining my new job as a teacher. It is important to have an idea about what you want to do with your future. As a student what is your dream job? How much does it pay? What is required to starting this job? These are important questions in seeing if this career is right for you.

My last job was as a soldier.

I started preparing for my new while I was still in the military.

You also need to prepare for your future while still in school.

Task

Grade Level: 6th Grade

Lesson Objective:

Learners will demonstrate knowledge of/understanding of/ability to: See what they want for a dream job. Research what it will takes to get this job. See how they can start preparing now for their dream job. Provide feedback to fellow students about their dream job.

Subject Matter Content Standard:

INTEGRATION OF KNOWLEDGE AND IDEAS

RI.6.7

Integrate information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue.

Things to Accomplish During This Lesson

Think about one job you would like to do when when you grow up.
If you do not know what you want to do you can do a career assessment.
Research on internet how much this job pays.
Gather information off internet about your job.
Pick a picture of house and car you would like to have and the cost of each.
Present information to classroom about the job of your choice.

Process

Decide on a dream job.

If you do not know what you want to do try one of these career assessment

1. http://www.bls.gov/k12/content/students/careers/career-exploration.htm

Go to one of these sites and see what salary you could make for this job.

1. http://swz.salary.com/SALARYWIZARD/layoutscripts/swzl_selectjob.aspx?txtKeyword=teacher&txtZipCode=92058

2. http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Google-California-Salaries-EI_IE9079.0,6_IL.7,17_IS2280.htm3.

3. http://www.indeed.com/salary

In doing your research consider these question.

Student Research Questions:

Essential Question:

What is the starting, median and top salary for this job?

Subsidiary Questions (5-10):

1. What is the job outlook for your job?

2. Is there any job opening in San Diego?

3. What is the educational requirement for this job?

4. What type of experience did this job open requirement?

5. What did you learn the most about your job research?

6. When do you think you need to make a decision about whether you will seek this career path?

7. What can you do now to prepare for this job?

8. Do you still want to seek this job?

9. What type of house and car will this job buy you?

10. Is the military an option in doing this job?

Following these question you will make a power-point and share the information you gained from your research and present it to others in the class. In given the information you will try to dress appropriate to cloths you would wear if you where to actually holding that job. Give explanatyion on why you chose this career. Just for fun include a picture of the house and car you would like to own to include the prices of each.

Evaluation

The only way to do this job effectively is to use the internet. All data needed could be easily accessed on the internet.

	Exemplary 4	Qualified 3	Developing 2	Beginning 1
Research	Student participates in searching the provided website and takes notes on career options.	Student participates in searching the provided website and takes notes on career options.	Student participates in searching the provided website and takes notes on career options.	Student makes little to no effort to participate in the activities that encompass this WebQuest.
Power-Point	Students provide a well developed explanation of career choice with evidence from research as support.	Students provide a well developed explanation of career choice with evidence from research as a support.	Students provide an explanation of their career choice with evidence from research, but are lacking details from research as a support.	Students provide an explanation of their career choice with evidence, but evidence is either incorrect or appears to have no relevance to reasoning for career choice.
Discussion	Student shows active engagement and effort in the discussion process throughout the activities of the WebQuest.	Student participates in discussion, but lacks engagement and effort while presenting their information OR helping their partner with evaluation of choices.	Student participates in discussion, but lacks engagements and effort while presenting their information AND helping their partner with evaluation of choices..	Student makes no effort in discussion with class.

Conclusion

It is never too early to start planning for the future. Students need to take steps to explore their future after they graduate from high school. This will also allow the student to do an individual assessment to see what they have to do to get their dream job. This will also allow the students to possible do classes that could help prepare them in doing classes that may fit in with their career goals. This also will allow students with the opportunity to share with their classmate about their dreams and also learn about other careers that they could be interested in.

Credits

By Kelvin Edwards, Brandman University

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