Tuesday & Wednesday, May 31 & June 1, 2016

Dear Class:

Learning Targets:
​Students will --

• understand the value of getting a higher education or post-secondary training.

Students will --

• know how to explore post-secondary programs of study
• identify relevant programs of study
• develop a post-secondary education plan.

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  Tuesday & Wednesday, A & B days

For Warmup.  

Waiting Tables is the Most Stressful Job
 Experience vs. a degree: Which is more valuable?

Today’s Personality Tests Raise the Bar for Job Seekers

 What they teach you in culinary school


      Activities: Students, you will work on the following today:

1. Complete 3 slides related to post-secondary planning--
   Create a high school course plan- see example.  Go to your StudentVue for next years classes.  (Curriculum Guide)
   Create and post-secondary course plan.
   Summarize in a table your findings about each school researched.
2. Finish your career budget. Did you properly label it?
3. Work on final project slides not yet completed.  Sample
   Create citations for work and images. 
4. Look at copying and pasting your web sites to final slide.

      Activities: Students, you will work on the following today:​

1. Create table for Education Plan
2. Finish other assignments — Career Budget, Section 1 and 2
3.  Upload all work to your Google Drive
4.   Periods 5-8 insert budgets into final project

Next week: we will add images to slides if all of your content is present.
We will work in Photoshop to manipulate images.

Thursday & Friday, May 26 & 27, 2016

Dear Class:

Learning Targets:
​Students will --

• understand the value of getting a higher education or post-secondary training.

Students will --

• know how to explore post-secondary programs of study
• identify relevant programs of study
• develop a post-secondary education plan.

______________________________________________________________________
  Thursday, A day &  Friday, B day 

For Warmup.  Look at the Best and Worst Entry Jobs.  Find the one that is the closest approximation to yours and do a quick analysis

Create document "Best and Worst".  Take a snapshot of the job ratings
1.  Does this change your mind a little
2.  What are the worst things about the job
3.  What are the best characteristics about the job
Best and Worst Entry Jobs 

      Activities: Students, you will work on the following today:

1. Complete 3 slides related to post-secondary planning--
   Create a high school course plan- see example.
   Create and post-secondary course plan.
   Summarize in a table your findings about each school researched.
2. Finish your career budget. Did you properly label it?
3. Work on final project slides not yet completed.  Sample
   Create citations for work and images. 
4. Look at copying and pasting your web sites to final slide.

 
    REVISIT:   Finish Budget reflection, Per. 6 Budget Q & R


      Activities: Students, you will work on the following today:​

1. Create table for Education Plan
2. Finish other assignments — Career Budget, Section 1 and 2
3.  Upload all work to your Google Drive
4.   Periods 5-8 insert budgets into final project

Next week: we will add images to slides if all of your content is present.
We will work in Photoshop to manipulate images.

Tuesday & Wednesday, May

Dear Class:

Learning Targets:
​Students will --

• understand the value of getting a higher education or post-secondary training.

Students will --

• know how to explore post-secondary programs of study
• identify relevant programs of study
• develop a post-secondary education plan.

______________________________________________________________________ 

Warmup: Read "What is a "Career Pathway"?  

• Respond to  the following (document entitled Career Pathway:

     Write a definition of career pathway and identify the key benefits of career pathways.            Explain how a post-secondary education plan would be connected to a career pathway.

Best and Worst Entry Jobs  FYI

      Activities: Students, you will work on the following today:

1. Section 3 of our key curriculum: Post-secondary Education
   Lookup Programs of Study for your career choice in CIS
   Complete the handout as directed.  Handing back corrected ones...Should be done
2. Complete 3 slides related to post-secondary planning--
   Create a high school course plan- see example.
   Create and post-secondary course plan.
   Summarize in a table your findings about each school researched.
3. Finish your career budget. Did you properly label it?
4. Work on final project slides not yet completed.  Sample
   Create citations for work and images. 

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Tuesday, A day & Wednesday, B day 

       Activities: Students, you will work on the following today:  

1. See Monday's agenda.
2. Budget reflection.

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   Thursday, A day &  Friday, B day 

      Activities: Students, you will work on the following today:​

1. Finish other assignments — Career Budget, Section 1 and 2

          Upload all work to your Google Drive.

Next week: we will add images to slides if all of your content is present.
We will work in Photoshop to manipulate images.

Friday & Monday, 20th & 23rd, 2016

Dear Class:


 What is a "Career Pathway"?

1. Section 3 of our key curriculum: Post-secondary Education
   Lookup Programs of Study for your career choice in CIS
   Complete the handout as directed.

 Friday, B day

      Activities: Students, you will work on the following today:

1. Finish off the "Relating My Education to My Goals" worksheet
2. Work on Final Project.  I will go over some of the tools in Excel that will help.

Otherwise work on the Final Project.  If you are not working on either, I will be taking away from participation points for the final grade.  

Otherwise, work on your Final Project 

Move your education plan from Digital Literacy class to your PACE Drive folder. UPDATE THE PLAN AND INSERT INTO YOUR FINAL PROJECT.

Wednesday & Thursday, May 18 & 19, 2016

Dear Class:

 Monday & Tuesday, A & B day

1. Section 3 of our key curriculum: Post-secondary Education
   Lookup Programs of Study for your career choice in CIS
2. You should be finished with Section 2.  We will try to finish Section three.  

Otherwise work on the Final Project.  If you are not working on either, I will be taking away from participation points for the final grade.  

Otherwise, work on your Final Project 

Monday & Tuesday, May 16 & 17, 2016

Dear Class:

 Monday & Tuesday, A & B day

• What is a budget?
•  Take the quiz on the Budget vocabulary first and then copy and paste results in at:  Test.  Do 20 questions Matching, Multiple choice and T/F.   Use this as a "Pre-test".  Go over the flashcard practice and then take it again.  This will be the "Post-test".  Copy and past the results from this above it.
• Budget Vocabulary Flashcard Practice

1. Section 3 of our key curriculum: Post-secondary Education
   Lookup Programs of Study for your career choice in CIS
2. Work on Section 2 and first part of Section three.

Thursday and Friday, May 12 & 13, 2016

Wednesday, B day & Thursday, A day 
   
       Activities:

 Do "SPENT" and take snapshot Link
 ​​

1. Section 3 of our key curriculum: Post-secondary Education
   Lookup Programs of Study for your career choice in CIS

 Friday, B day

• Final Quiz prep-
  What are the 5 Parts to the resume and what is the purpose of each part?
  How is a resume structured? What is a one-liner?
  Give an example of one of your skills and 2 relevant one-liners.
• What is a budget? Will my career support me reflection.
• 
  Will My Job Support Me?
  a.k.a  Salary Based Budgeting
• Budget Vocabulary Flashcard Practice

Wednesday & Thursday, May 11 & 12, 2016

  Monday, B day & Tuesday, A day

 Warmup:  Writing a Thank-you letter.

• Read the articles— Thank You Letter Format and How to Write a Thank You Letter.

            Respond to the following questions after creating a doc titled "Thank You Letters":

1. Why would you write a Thank You letter? When would you write one? (2nd article)
2. What are six formatting items found in a Thank You letter?
3. What should the body of a Thank You letter include?

      Activities: Students, you will work on the following today:

1. Part 2 of the Thank-you letter: How to Write a Thank You  Letter
   Please be mindful when writing your final draft- leave a margin left and right.
   Write on the inside of the card.
   ​Start text far enough down to leave most white space at the top end of the card.
   Include a date, the salutation- Dear Mr. or Ms. ......, and the closing, which is lined up under the date.  Carefully review the example.
2. Work on final project, section 2 & 3. See tutorial below and follow.

           Job Preparedness—  List and explain the key steps for preparing for the interview.
           Resume development; Dress for the Interview, the Big 4,
           Make resume changes and place into slide. We will do this together in class.
        

          Provide picture of self or choose from "Student View".
          This will be your chapter title picture.
          We can manipulate this in Photoshop.

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  Wednesday, B day & Thursday, A day 
   
       Activities:

 Do "SPENT" and take snapshot Link​​

1. Section 3 of our key curriculum: Post-secondary Education
   Lookup Programs of Study for your career choice in CIS

 Friday, B day

• Final Quiz prep-
  What are the 5 Parts to the resume and what is the purpose of each part?
  How is a resume structured? What is a one-liner?
  Give an example of one of your skills and 2 relevant one-liners.
• What is a budget? Will my career support me reflection.

Monday & Tuesday, May 9 & 10, 2016

Monday, B day & Tuesday, A day  Warmup:  Writing a Thank-you letter. Read the articles— Thank You Letter Format and How to Write a Thank You Letter.             Respond to the following questions after creating a doc titled "Thank You Letters": Why would you write a Thank You letter? When would you write one? (2nd article) What are six formatting items found in a Thank You letter? What should the body of a Thank You letter include?       Activities: Students, you will work on the following today: Part 2 of the Thank-you letter: How to Write a Thank You  Letter Please be mindful when writing your final draft- leave a margin left and right. Write on the inside of the card. ​Start text far enough down to leave most white space at the top end of the card.  Include a date, the salutation- Dear Mr. or Ms. ......, and the closing, which is lined up under the date.  Carefully review the example. Work on final project, section 2 & 3. See tutorial below and follow.            Job Preparedness—  List and explain the key steps for preparing for the interview.            Resume development; Dress for the Interview, the Big 4,            Make resume changes and place into slide. We will do this together in class.                      Provide picture of self or choose from "Student View".           This will be your chapter title picture.           We can manipulate this in Photoshop.

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  Wednesday, B day & Thursday, A day 
     
       Activities:​​

1. Section 3 of our key curriculum: Post-secondary Education
   Lookup Programs of Study for your career choice in CIS

 Friday, B day

• Final Quiz prep-
  What are the 5 Parts to the resume and what is the purpose of each part?
  How is a resume structured? What is a one-liner?
  Give an example of one of your skills and 2 relevant one-liners.
• What is a budget? Will my career support me reflection.

Thursday & Friday, May 5 & 6, 2016

MOCK INTERVIEWS

MEET AT THE LIBRARY

As discussed multiple times, be dressed appropriately for the Mock Interview.  

I will have Mock Interview reflections that you will be completing after your interview.  It will be paper for Period 7 and Periods 4.

 Mock Interview Reflection and Thank You Note/Letter

Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Wednesday:

Mock Interviews will occur on the following dates:  Semester 2 —Thursday and Friday, May 5 and 6
You must attend one of the sessions to receive full credit for the interview.

You will meet me on Thursday and Friday at the Library.  You need to be dressed appropriately.  I will have your grading sheet and clean resume. 


 Warmup:

• 10 minute practice the Big 4.

We will watch a Mock Job Interview.   I would then like to give me oral reflections concerning same.

I will be going over your interview questions that you had submitted before so I need you to revisit the same 15 questions that you did as a warmup and revise them so that they are more complete than they were.  Freewrite 16 a & b

Finally, work on Final Project!  Graded this week/weekend

Monday & Tuesday, May 2 & 3rd, 2016

Monday & Tuesday:

Mock Interviews will occur on the following dates:Semester 2 —Thursday and Friday, May 5 and 6
You must attend one of the sessions to receive full credit for the interview.

You will meet me on Thursday and Friday at the Library.  You need to be dressed appropriately.  I will have your grading sheet and clean resume. 


 Warmup:

• 10 minute practice the Big 4.

Interview Grading Sheets.  We will review;  Put your name on the top, the period and for the teacher put:  Mr. Green-Hite

Interview Practice:

You will each be given a short sheet.  Put your name on the top.  Put the name of the person you are interviewing.  Please put a letter grade on the top for how they did.  Go over it with the other student.  Hand it in at the end.