A collaborative approach to engage students in industry-wide skills, foundational skills, and essential skills needed to prepare students for today's workforce. - Jamie Kuriger
Overview
Students will be engaged in cross curricular activities that focus on industry wide skills, foundational skills and essential skills for today's workforce (based off of the 13 effective practices for implementing PA CEW standards).
Subject:
Universal- ideally for use in Collaboration among CTE, sending Districts, and community stakeholders.
Time Required
Ongoing
Lesson Overview
Students will be engaged in cross curricular activities that focus on industry wide skills, foundational skills and essential skills for today's workforce (based off of the 13 effective practices for implementing PA CEW standards).
PA Core Standards
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| Academic Standards for Career Education & Work Education.pa.org Career Awareness & Preparation Career Acquisition Career Retention & Advancement Entrepreneurship |
Essential Questions
- Career Awareness & Preparation: What careers are out there for me? How do I prepare for my career?
- Career Acquisition: How do I get a job? What skills do I need?
- Career Retention & Advancement: How do I keep my job and learn about opportunities to advance at work?
- Entrepreneurship: What do I need to know to start a business of my own or to find out about current job opportunities on my own?
Students Will Know | Students Will Be Doing |
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Instructional Process (i.e., Lesson Delivery)
13 effective practices for implementing Pennsylvania Career Education & Work Standards: A collaborative approach between BCCTC, Sending Districts and Stakeholders
- Engage stakeholders (students, parents, educators, business/community, postsecondary Institutions (CEW standards-C:A2.2 Learn about the traditional/nontraditional occupations, C.A2.3 Demonstrate knowledge about the changing workplace).
- Facilitate integration within a variety of existing K-12 courses . Use crosswalks to identify linkages with other PA academic standards including the common core standards and standards for Interpersonal skills. Crosswalks identify where CEW standards are already being met and where best to integrate them into already existing curriculum. (CEW standards-C:A1.7 Understand the importance of planning, C:B2.1 Demonstrate awareness of the education & training needed to achieve career goals.
- Link career development with character education (CEW standards-C:C1.1 Understand the relationship between educational achievement and career success, C:A1.4 Learn how to interact and work cooperatively in teams, C:A2.1 Acquire employability skills such as working as a team, problem solving and organizational skills, C:A2.8-Understand the importance of responsibility, dependability, punctuality, integrity & effort in the workplace.
- Provide opportunities for linkages to postsecondary visits, college expos,analysis of labor market data, job shadowing, cooperative education, internships, apprenticeships, career expos, career days, classroom speakers & events, and field trips. (CEW standards-C.A1.1 Develop skills to relocate, evaluate & interpret career information, C:B2.3 Use employability & job readiness skills in internship, mentoring, job shadowing and/or other work experience, C:2.4 Apply academic & employment readiness skills in work-based learning situations such as internships, job shadowing and/or mentoring experiences.
- Integrate computerized career development software & web-based resources, personality interest and/or aptitude assessments, and transition planning & post-secondary resources. (CEW standards-C:C1.6 Learn to use the internet to access career planning information, C:C1.3 Identify personal preferences & interests influencing career choice & successes, C:C1.3 Identify personal interests influencing career choice & successes, C:2.1 Demonstrate how interests, abilities, and achievement related to achieving personal, social, educational & career goals, C:B1.6 Learn to use the internet to access career planning information.
- Emphasize the importance of life-long learning & workplace development addressing such skills. (CEW standards C:A1.8 Pursue develop competency in internship, mentoring, shadowing, and/or work experience, C:C1.1 Understand the relationship between educational achievement and career success, C:C2.1 Demonstrate how interests, abilities & achievement relates to achieving personal, social educational and career goals.
- Build Entrepreneurship curriculum & provide opportunities for entrepreneurial thinking. (CEW standards C:B1.5 Use research & information to obtain career information, C:A2.2 Apply job readiness skills to seek employment opportunities
- Implement a career portfolio process . (CEW standards C:B2.5 Maintain a career planning portfolio,C:B1.1 Apply decision making skills to career planning, course selection, and career transition.
- Develop a career-based graduation project . (CEW standards C:B.1 Apply decision making skills to career planning, course selection and career transition
- Develop stand-alone courses (½-full year career education courses designed to address the CEW standards (personal budget, business plan, career portfolio, academic & career plan, A:C1.3 Understand the relationships between learning and work, A:B2.3 Develop & implement annual plan of study to maximize academic ability & achievement.
- Establish advisory & career-oriented mentoring programs. (CEW standards C.A1.1 Develop skills to relocate, evaluate & interpret career information, C:B2.3 Use employability & job readiness skills in internship, mentoring, shadowing or other work experience.
- Institute career clusters, career pathways model or career academics. (CEW standards A:B2.1 Establish challenging academic goals in elementary, middle and high school, A:B2.2 Use assessment results in educational planning, C:B1.3 Demonstrate knowledge of the career planning process)
- Establish a process for students to utilize strategies to facilitate successful transition into postsecondary training and/or the workplace involving community resources. (CEW standards C.B1.3 Demonstrate knowledge of the career planning process, C:B2.1 Demonstrate awareness of the education planning process, C:B2.2 Assess and modify their educational plan to support career goals)
Differentiation & Enrichment
Lower Achieving Students (career activities/artifacts for career portfolio collection and/ or 339) | Higher Achieving Students (career activities/artifacts for career portfolio collection and /or 339) |
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Assessment / Demonstration & Monitoring of Student Progress
Assessments (Formative and Summative): | Performance Task(s) |
NOCTI end-of-program assessment for 12th grade or last year of program for students who are eligible concentrators www.nocti.org
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Resources / Links / Materials
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NOCTI end-of-program assessment for 12th grade or last year of program for students who are eligible concentrators www.nocti.org
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