Factors Affecting Career Choice
Lessons
Students explore and discuss factors they should consider when they are planning a career path.
Exploring Motivational Factors
Lessons
Students will explore motivational factors that influence a person’s career on a daily basis.
Students will recognize motivational factors that are similar to their own.
Student will identify the factors that motivate or are important to them as they explore or plan for future career opportunities.
What’s My Lifestyle?
Lessons
Students will realize that high salaries are not always equated with a great lifestyle.
What’s your Plan B?
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Students will recognize the importance of flexibility and adaptability when it comes to career choices.
Students will recognize that previous education is an asset that provides for great flexibility and adaptability.
BYO Career Development Timeline
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Students will come to see themselves as people who have skills and knowledge that are valuable to entering the world of work.
Students will recognize that skills and abilities are developed in both formal and informal settings.
Your Personality and the Workplace
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Students recognize the importance of the connection between life choices and their personal characteristics. Students will make connections between who they are now, the people they wish to become (their future selves), and their connections with work.
What Skills do I Need for the Workplace?
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Students will deepen their understanding of the concept of employability skills. Students will develop an awareness of opportunities available for those who have well-developed employability skills.
The Skills Employers Look For
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Students will identify the skills that employers look for in potential employees.
Students will recognize that they have skills and abilities that align with employer needs.
Students will make personal connection between their interests and current skills with the person in the career profile.
Introducing Career Options
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Students will be introduced to career development and begin thinking about different career options.
Introduction to Career Development
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Students are introduced to career development as a lifelong process as they visualize who, what and where they want to be when they graduate.
Learning from the Experience of Others
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Students will recognize the benefit of seeking advice from those experienced in specific career areas that interest them.
What are Your Employability Skills?
Lessons
Students will identify employability skills in which they are strong and those that need work, create an Employability Skills Profile and develop plans to improve their employability skills.
Why do we need two eyes to see?
Hands-on Activities
Ever wondered why we have two eyes (and not one, three or more)? Find how your two eyes work together in this hands-on activity.
Why is everything so small down there?
Hands-on Activities
Explore how we see things far and near and from different angles. It's all about perspective!
Why is it colder in the winter even though the Earth is closer to the Sun?
Hands-on Activities
Learn why we have seasons in this hands on activity.