PA Career Zone Interest Inventory
Overview
Middle and High School educators across Lebanon County, Pennsylvania developed lesson plans to integrate the Pennsylvania Career Education and Work Standards with the content they teach. This work was made possible through a partnership between the South Central PA Workforce Investment Board (SCPa Works) and Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13 (IU13) and was funded by a Teacher in the Workplace Grant Award from the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry. This lesson plan was developed by one of the talented educators who participated in this project during the 2019-2020 school year.
Title of Lesson: PA Career Zone Interest Inventory
Course Name: Counseling
Grade Level: 10
Author’s Name: Nick Shewell
Author’s School District: Northern Lebanon
| ASCA Academic Standards for School Counseling | |
C:A1.3 - Develop an awareness of personal abilities, skills, interests, and motivations C:B2.1 - Demonstrate awareness of the education and training needed to achieve career goals C:C1.1 - Identify personal preferences which influence career choices and success | |
| PA Academic Standards for Career Education and Work | |
13.1: Career Awareness and Preparation 13.1.11.A - Relate careers to individual interests, abilities, and aptitudes. 13.1.11.B - Analyze career options based on personal interests, abilities, aptitudes, achievements, and goals. 13.1.11.H - Review personal high school plan against the current personal career goals and select post-secondary opportunities based upon personal career interests. | |
| Learning Objectives | |
This lesson will teach students how to explore career options using information from pacareerzone.org. The following objectives will be completed during the lesson:
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| Conceptual Background | |
| With a quick review of www.pacareerzone.org and the Interest Profiler activity, any educator/staff personnel would be able to conduct this lesson. This is mostly a student-guided activity in which the electronic Interest Profiler questions roll nicely into the formative assessment. | |
| Instructional Procedure | |
| Pacing | Instructional Procedure |
| 10 minutes | Introduction of www.pacareerzone.org and the many tools the website has to offer. |
| 15 minutes | Students answer the questions associated with the Interest Profiler. |
| 10 minutes | Students will review the results of their Interest Profiler and complete the accompanying worksheet. |
| 7 minutes | Debrief as a class. Was anyone surprised by their results? Did anyone find a career they will look into a little deeper? |
| Formative Assessment | |
10th Grade – Interest Profiler
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| Materials Needed | |
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| References | |
| Pennsylvania CareerZone. (n.d.) Retrieved November 25, 2019, from https://www.pacareerzone.org/. |