Demonstrating Ethical Work Habits - Rubric with Activities

This rubric includes three scenarios (one for the classroom, one for the workplace, and one for career-technical student organizations) that can be implemented to assess students' abilities to demonstrate ethical work habits. It also includes a comprehensive rubric and instructions for using the rubric to assess student performance. A downloadable document containing the full set of activities, instructions, and rubrics can be found in the Resource Library. For more rubrics and other instructional tools, visit https://mbastatesconnection.mbaresearch.org/.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

My Next Move Interactive Career Research Tool

My Next Move is an interactive tool for job seekers and students to learn more about their career options. My Next Move has tasks, skills, salary information, and more for over 900 different careers. Users can find careers through keyword search; by browsing industries that employ different types of workers; or through the O*NET Interest Profiler, a tool that offers personalized career suggestions based on a person's interests and level of work experience.

Material Type: Interactive

Author: National Center for O*NET Development

How do my personal interests and abilities help me select a career?

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.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Authors: Rachael Haverstick, Krista Noll

Career Profile Research

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.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Authors: Rachael Haverstick, Jenna Reich

Career-Connected Learning Through Budgeting

Students connect their future career choices and decisions with budgeting practice and identifying the type of lifestyle they will be able to live based on their career choices.

Material Type: Lesson

Author: Marc Busko

Email Writing Activity for Career Readiness -- How to Ask About an Informational Interview

The activity shows students how to write an effective email to ask for an informational interview across a variety of real-world situations. Each time, students learn to use a single email to introduce themselves, build trust and show authenticity.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson

Author: Danny Rubin

Researching the gig economy

Students conduct research about the gig economy, identify benefits and drawbacks to gig work, and reflect on whether gig work would be right for them.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Field Trips for Career Exploration

Students use research and observation data (field trip) to objectively rank potential career opportunities to help guide their individual career choice and pathway. Learning goals/objectives: After completing this unit, students should be able to utilize an objective method for evaluating potential careers. Students will determine what career types and opportunities are best suited to themselves personally and defend their choices.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Authors: Dave Brasier, Field Trips For Career Exploration

Career Readiness Workshop Playbook

This playbook offers a step-by-step guide for how to hold a successful Career Readiness Workshop targeting middle and high school students, as well as post-secondary students seeking STEM internships and employment. Included are example materials from an event hosted in January 2016 by Washington State MESA as well as templates and presentations for creating your own successful Career Readiness Workshop.

Material Type: Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Washington STEM

Get a Life Game

A student’s choices shape their character’s story in Get a Life, a narrative-driven, college- and career-awareness game. Guide a character from high school graduation to retirement. Decide what interest they will pursue and if they will continue in school. Then, navigate opportunities and obstacles. Balance their comfort, civic involvement, and income to make sure they lead a comfortable, satisfying life. Dynamic play ensures nearly limitless storylines and outcomes, much like life. Get a Life is designed and written to teach secondary school students about college and career options and encourage them to have conversations about their futures.

Material Type: Game

Authors: Braden Roper, Cody Garrison, Diana Gedye, Emmett Mathews, Jacqueline Schlasner, Javier Elizondo, William Thompson

Career Clusters Match Game

This classroom activity introduces students to the 16 career clusters, and provides them an opportunity to find two careers to match each career cluster in a group activity.

Material Type: Game

Author: Career Clusters Match Game