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Activity
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Methodology
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Resources
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1. Introduction to Careers and Occupations
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a. Career clusters
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Provide students with a package of worksheets for this activity.
Give students a list of career clusters and discuss several in the list. Ask students to return to their multiple intelligences, and list those that are most relevant to each career cluster. A final question asks to students to reflect on what career cluster they might choose.
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Careers and Occupations worksheet package as described below
Career Clusters worksheet containing chart from Exploring (Teacher's Edition), p. 147 and questions
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b. The job trek game
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Students further refine their career interests by playing the Job Trek Game.
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The Job Trek Game worksheets from Exploring (Teacher's Edition), p. 148-149
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c. Education and job choice
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Give students a copy of the graph of Education and Job Choices. Answer several thinking questions
The school's counselor should visit and present various options for education and careers beyond high school. He/she is introduced as an important resource for students.
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Education and Job Choices information sheet photocopied from Exploring, p. 79
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2. Job Advertisements
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Following the Write a Job Ad assignment sheet, students create a graphic and text colourful advertisement/poster for a job of their choice. Poster slogans to motivate activity can be shown on the overhead.
The ad should be designed using Microsoft Word graphic and text tools. (These should be reviewed with necessary instructional input). Information about the job can be found in the Job Futures 2000 references, and on the Internet. Research for the job is done following an inquiry process (Know/Want/Learn). The product should make clear what skills are required for the job, level of education, workplace, salary, and daily expectations.
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Write a Job Ad assignment sheet; Know/Want/Learn inquiry worksheet from Exploring (Teacher's Edition), p. 165; Job Futures 2000 books; overhead of poster slogans from Exploring, p. 77-78
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3. Biographical Profiles
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Using the assignment sheet, students brainstorm a list of famous people. They then choose one, and create a single page graphic and text profile of the person. Information is obtained using Internet research. Their biographical profile should contain information about the various jobs or careers the person has had and does currently, as well as special interest information about the person's family, hobbies, goals, and childhood.
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Biographical Profile assignment sheet
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4. Annual Education Plans
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The school's counselor visits to help students complete their annual education plans. He/she is introduced as an important resource for students.
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Student AEPs
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5. The Next Step
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(At our school Grade 9 is not high school proper. Our student's Grade 10 year is their first outside the community and in a large high school. Deciding which school to attend is a difficult and important decision. This activity is specific to the school where course of study was developed.)
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Present students with copies of course calendars and student handbooks from Pelican Falls First Nations High School and Dennis Franklin Cromarty First Nations High School. Students read, peruse at leisure, and answer a series of comprehension and thinking questions about each. Several copies of Queen Elizabeth District High School (non-First Nations school in Sioux Lookout) should also be available
Have school's counselor explain N.N.E.C.'s policies regarding school attendance for high school.
Provide students with a list of compulsory and non-compulsory credits in high school. Have them check off what they predict will be completed by the end of their Grade 9 and Grade 10 years. Based on courses offered at the high school of their choice what optional courses will they take, and why? What career goals will it lead to?
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Course Calendars worksheet; variety of high school course calendars
Planning My Future in High School worksheet
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