Career and life planning is a lifetime process and this course is designed to equip you with the tools necessary to navigate each step of the way. This course is divided into six units to guide you through the career exploration and planning process.

Unit 1: Getting Started: Creating Your Career & Life Planning Vision:
Introduces the career exploration and planning process and highlights important success factors such as mental outlook, self-confidence and the power of positive thinking as you develop your personal vision.

Unit 2: Engaging in Self-Exploration:
Valuable career assessments will be administered and interpreted to help identify core values, personality preferences, interests, skills, abilities and character strengths.

Unit 3: Conducting Career Research:
Research techniques and tools for exploring the world of work, current job market trends, and online resources for career information will be covered.

Unit 4: Decision Making and Goal Setting:
Steps involved in the decision making process will be explored while identifying obstacles and challenges faced when making decisions. Goal Setting and educational planning tools will be introduced to help identify next steps and develop a personalized academic and skills based educational plan.

Unit 5: Developing your Self-Marketing Campaign:
The job search process, networking, resume and cover letter writing and interviewing techniques will be addressed to help create a strong marketing campaign.

Unit 6: Turning your Career and Life Planning Vision into Reality:
Creating a personal career vision statement and action plan is the focus of this unit. Staying motivated and determined to making the vision a reality.

This review of leadership literature and materials was completed by the Spring 2017 Honors Leadership Development course at Central Lakes College in Brainerd, MN. The text contains a review of materials relevant to those studying the topic of leadership. It contains materials on traits and skills of leaders, ethical characteristics of leaders, leadership and emotional intelligence, effective communication, motivating groups, building cohesive groups, creating and utilizing effective goals, effective decision making, initiating change, empowering others, and historical approaches to leadership.

Cover Sheet
Teacher Example
Templates

Explicit goal-setting is linked with confidence, motivation, autonomy, and goal completion (PsychologyToday.com). As such, the explicit teaching of goal-setting can be a crucial classroom practice. This lesson consists of a HyperDoc which uses text (article) and video lecture (TEDTalk) to communicate the importance and process of setting goals. This lesson seeks to expose students to a variety of information on the importance and process of setting goals. Students read a short article entitled, "5 Reasons Why Goal Setting Will Improve Your Focus" and view a TEDTalk entitled, "Why the Secret to Success is Setting the Right Goals". Students will respond to each text by clarifying their understanding and reflecting on the content. Students then set their own personal and educational goals. This lesson can be used at any time to enhance student motivation or focus that would benefit from having concrete goals. This lesson was curated by Tyler Barna for the 2020 NDE OER Workshop and is designed for a middle-level English Language Arts classroom. It is expected that this lesson will take students 45 minutes to complete. All materials are linked digitally within the lesson.  

Objective: The student will list 2 short term goals and two long term goals using the SMARTER method.Teacher Lecture:Key Terms:Short term goals: A short-term goal is something you want to do in the near future. The near future can mean today, this week, this month, or even this year.Long term Goals: Goals that take a long time to achieve are called long-term goals.SMARTER goal setting method: Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant and Timely, Evaluation and Readjustmant.Video: Accomplish Your Dreams in 2017Video provided by Heather. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVzgz47HsbyUA1S9pp79VUg/aboutCreative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported— CC BY-SA 3.0    Students will watch the 8 minute video to reinforce the instructors lecture.   

Each semester I teach a course titled “Personal Health and Wellness.” Twenty to thirty students consistently register for the course and they are required to study content within several health and wellness topics such as psychological health, physical fitness, nutrition, drug abuse, tobacco use, heart disease, infectious disease, and sexual health. The course objectives are consistent with the Montana Health Education Standards, including objective 6: to demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting skills to enhance their health.

In an effort to address objective 6 of the Montana Health Education standards and teach in a culturally responsive way, I recently integrated a series of goal –setting activities into my Personal Health and Wellness course. The goal of this novel integration was to teach students how to effectively use goal-setting to improve an aspect of their life. Consistent with goal theory, I expected that if they experienced success with a thoughtful and appropriate goal, students would have improved levels of hope and self-efficacy.

This resource contains an overview of the resource and printable forms for student self-reflection and goal-setting, including "Yet" and "Glows & Grows."

Here is the lesson plan overview for lesson plan #1 for grade 4 students for social emotional learning. They are taught how to create managble and timely goals. 

Short Nearpod about how to set effective goals that uses triathlon training as a metaphor for setting effective academic goals.

Health Content and Achievement Standards for the state of North Dakota. Updated 2008.

Learn how you can set and meet effective goals!

Footage: pexels.com

A general checklist that prompts students to reflect on their learning after completing work on a project.

A rubric in student language used by elementary students to self-assess reflective journals. It can be modified to be used by peers or teachers to provide feedback.

This is a lesson on learning about and using SMART goals in the short and long term for high school students.

Success Strategies for the Adult Re-Entry Student integrates personal growth and values, academic study strategies and critical and creative thinking proficiency for adult reentry students, emphasizing the attainment of lifelong success in academic, professional, and personal development.

At College of the Canyons, this counseling course is COUNS 100 (3 units)

In the face of artificial intelligence and machine learning, we need a new radical humanism, says Tim Leberecht. For the self-described "business romantic," this means designing organizations and workplaces that celebrate authenticity instead of efficiency and questions instead of answers. Leberecht proposes four (admittedly subjective) principles for building beautiful organizations.

This resource provides access to videos produced and/or used by the Northern California Training Academy to support training for child welfare practitioners. To learn more about the Academy, please visit humanservices.ucdavis.edu/academy.