CAREER DEVELOPMENT

Author: Anna Sherman

Grade Level: High School

Overview:Students need to understand that career development is a lifelong process. They need to explore job responsibilities and tasks and compare them with their own values and skills. As they progress through this career unit students will be applying a variety of learning standards as they explore and gather information which enables them to synthesize, gain competencies, make decisions, set goals and take action about their future.

Connection to NYS Learning Standards: Health, P.E., Family and Consumer Science Standard 3 Resource Management; Career Development and Occupational StudiesStandard 1 Career Development, Standard 2 Integrated Learning, Standard 3 Universal Foundations; Social Studies Standard 4 Economics; MST Standard 2 Information Systems; ELA Standard 1 Language for Information an Understanding, Standard 4 Language for Social Interaction.

Connection to District Learning Standards: Critical Thinker, Life-long Learner, Effective Communicator, Healthy Citizen, Responsible Citizen