Monday & Tuesday, October 30 & 31, 2017

Dear Class:

Learning Targets:
​Students will --​

1.       Identify work and education experience that is related to work world.

2.       ​Identify one strong career potential as your resume objective based upon your research.

3.       Know the five parts to a resume- personal information, job objective, education, work history and skills. 

Know career terms: job, occupation, cluster career, career learning areas

Career Vocabulary:

​JOB — A unique work situation or position, paid or unpaid. Activities performed on a regular basis in exchange for payment.

OCCUPATION — A group of related jobs that have similar duties, levels of responsibility, skills, knowledge, and physical demands. CIS uses about 600 occupational titles to describe the labor market.

CLUSTER — A way to group occupations by some common feature. Oregon uses 23 clusters to group occupations into five broad categories called Career Learning Areas.
​Career Learning Areas can help you focus on skills and knowledge related to your career goals and education plans.

CAREER — The combination of learning and work that a person pursues during his or her life.

1.  Freewrite #12 Part 2 on your own at the following link:  How to Write a Resume

     In the document you had entitled "How to Write a Resume" and answer the questions on the slide.  I do not have a handout for this assignment.

2.  Brief Introduction for the interview.  Shake hands with the person next to you and introduce yourself. 

3.  Watch "Powerful Resumes".  No worksheet.

3.  We will look at this today. We will begin the Final Project today and add as we go on. When working on the final project, refer to the slide tutorial in the link. LINK: FINAL PROJECT 2016-17

Wednesday & Thursday, October 25 & 26, 2017

Dear Class:

Learning Targets:
​Students will --​

1.       Identify work and education experience that is related to work world.

2.       ​Identify one strong career potential as your resume objective based upon your research.

3.       Know the five parts to a resume- personal information, job objective, education, work history and skills. 

Know career terms: job, occupation, cluster career, career learning areas

Career Vocabulary:

​JOB — A unique work situation or position, paid or unpaid. Activities performed on a regular basis in exchange for payment.

OCCUPATION — A group of related jobs that have similar duties, levels of responsibility, skills, knowledge, and physical demands. CIS uses about 600 occupational titles to describe the labor market.

CLUSTER — A way to group occupations by some common feature. Oregon uses 23 clusters to group occupations into five broad categories called Career Learning Areas.
​Career Learning Areas can help you focus on skills and knowledge related to your career goals and education plans.

CAREER — The combination of learning and work that a person pursues during his or her life.

1.  Freewrite #12 on your own at the following link:  How to Write a Resume

     Create a document entitled "How to Write a Resume" and answer the questions on the slide.  I do not have a handout for this assignment.
 
2.  You will finish the part of  Resume Workbook below that you worked on last class
     You already answered:  Pages 3-6  "Uncover Your Skills, Abilities, and Special Talents".  We did work on "My Education" with "My Work History" handout last class.  Today we will work on One-Liners.  Go to your "Skills/Venn Diagram" for the 3 skills you will be using.  I will go over this with you today.

3.  DO THIS IF YOU FINISH EARLY:  We will look at this today. work on any incomplete work first, then your final project. When working on the final project, refer to the slide tutorial in the link. LINK: FINAL PROJECT 2016-17

Monday & Tuesday, October 23 & 24, 2017

Dear Class:

Learning Targets:
​Students will --​

1.       Identify work and education experience that is related to work world.

2.       ​Identify one strong career potential as your resume objective based upon your research.

3.       Know the five parts to a resume- personal information, job objective, education, work history and skills. 

Know career terms: job, occupation, cluster career, career learning areas

Career Vocabulary:

​JOB — A unique work situation or position, paid or unpaid. Activities performed on a regular basis in exchange for payment.

OCCUPATION — A group of related jobs that have similar duties, levels of responsibility, skills, knowledge, and physical demands. CIS uses about 600 occupational titles to describe the labor market.

CLUSTER — A way to group occupations by some common feature. Oregon uses 23 clusters to group occupations into five broad categories called Career Learning Areas.
​Career Learning Areas can help you focus on skills and knowledge related to your career goals and education plans.

CAREER — The combination of learning and work that a person pursues during his or her life.

1.  Freewrite #11 on your own at the following link:  Resume Writing for Teens

     Create a document entitled "Resume Writing for Teens" and answer the questions on the slide.  I do not have a handout for this assignment.
 
2.  You will finish the part of  Resume Workbook below that you worked on last class
     You already answered:  Pages 3-6  "Uncover Your Skills, Abilities, and Special Talents".  We will work on "My Education" with "My Work History" handout today.

3.  DO THIS IF YOU FINISH EARLY:  We will look at this today. work on any incomplete work first, then your final project. When working on the final project, refer to the slide tutorial in the link. LINK: FINAL PROJECT 2016-17

Thursday & Friday, October 19 & 20, 2017

Dear Class:

Learning Targets:
​Students will --​

1.       Identify work and education experience that is related to work world.

2.       ​Identify one strong career potential as your resume objective based upon your research.

3.       Know the five parts to a resume- personal information, job objective, education, work history and skills. 

Know career terms: job, occupation, cluster career, career learning areas

Career Vocabulary:

​JOB — A unique work situation or position, paid or unpaid. Activities performed on a regular basis in exchange for payment.

OCCUPATION — A group of related jobs that have similar duties, levels of responsibility, skills, knowledge, and physical demands. CIS uses about 600 occupational titles to describe the labor market.

CLUSTER — A way to group occupations by some common feature. Oregon uses 23 clusters to group occupations into five broad categories called Career Learning Areas.
​Career Learning Areas can help you focus on skills and knowledge related to your career goals and education plans.

CAREER — The combination of learning and work that a person pursues during his or her life.

1.  Freewrite #10 on your own at the following link:  Thoughts for the day

     Put the Assignment in your Freewrite document  12 minutes


2.   Watch "Undercover Boss:  Waste Management" for Thursday, 42 minutes
 
3..  You will finish the part of  Resume Workbook below that you worked on last class
     You will answer:  Pages 3-6  "Uncover Your Skills, Abilities, and Special Talents" and "My Education" with "My Work History" handout.

4.  DO THIS IF YOU FINISH EARLY:  We will look at this today. work on any incomplete work first, then your final project. When working on the final project, refer to the slide tutorial in the link. LINK: FINAL PROJECT 2016-17

Tuesday & Wednesday, October 17 & 18, 2017

Dear Class:

Learning Targets:
​Students will --​

1.       Identify work and education experience that is related to work world.

2.       ​Identify one strong career potential as your resume objective based upon your research.

3.       Know the five parts to a resume- personal information, job objective, education, work history and skills. 

Know career terms: job, occupation, cluster career, career learning areas

Career Vocabulary:

​JOB — A unique work situation or position, paid or unpaid. Activities performed on a regular basis in exchange for payment.

OCCUPATION — A group of related jobs that have similar duties, levels of responsibility, skills, knowledge, and physical demands. CIS uses about 600 occupational titles to describe the labor market.

CLUSTER — A way to group occupations by some common feature. Oregon uses 23 clusters to group occupations into five broad categories called Career Learning Areas.
​Career Learning Areas can help you focus on skills and knowledge related to your career goals and education plans.

CAREER — The combination of learning and work that a person pursues during his or her life.

1.  We watch:   Life after High School Succeeding in the Workplace Video  (21 minutes).
 
2.  We will be looking at the Resume Workbook
     You will answer:  Pages 3-6  "Uncover Your Skills, Abilities, and Special Talents"

3.  Finish 5 paragraph exploration if not done

Thursday & Monday, October 12 & 16, 2017

Dear Class:

Learning Targets:
​Students will --​

1.       Identify work and education experience that is related to work world.

2.       ​Identify one strong career potential as your resume objective based upon your research.

3.       Know the five parts to a resume- personal information, job objective, education, work history and skills. 

Know career terms: job, occupation, cluster career, career learning areas

Career Vocabulary:

​JOB — A unique work situation or position, paid or unpaid. Activities performed on a regular basis in exchange for payment.

OCCUPATION — A group of related jobs that have similar duties, levels of responsibility, skills, knowledge, and physical demands. CIS uses about 600 occupational titles to describe the labor market.

CLUSTER — A way to group occupations by some common feature. Oregon uses 23 clusters to group occupations into five broad categories called Career Learning Areas.
​Career Learning Areas can help you focus on skills and knowledge related to your career goals and education plans.

CAREER — The combination of learning and work that a person pursues during his or her life. 

1.  Watch "Your Career Search:  Taking the first Step".  This is for your information only and will not be associated with a worksheet!

2.    Exploration of Specific Occupations 
Finish up this section today!  You need to be logged into your gmail account for this to occur.  This will be done using CIS from the information on your specific job.
You will further do a handout:  Career Research WS

3.  Make sure you created a doc called Skills_Venn_Diagram and label both sides.  On the left side it should be labeled "My Skills" and the right side the job you are comparing it with.  Insert the  object/circles and go from there.

3.   Use this document to help with ideas for the Exploration of Specific Occupations five paragraphs.  Careers Analysis for your career.

4.   Today or next period, depending on time, we will explore what it will take to live on a fixed budget.

We may start the "Will My Job Support Me?" Follow the slide tutorial found in: a.k.a  Salary Based Budgeting

Complete a monthly budget for a minimum wage earner. You will select one of the following jobs and look up the beginning annual wage on slide 3/Step 2 of the tutorial: waiter/waitress/dishwasher; lawn mower, babysitter/ child care worker, barista, retail clerk, gas station attendant, laborer.

Go to the last slide and do the "Reflection". Your choice of career in this case was made for you....a minimum wage job at $11.25!


Continuing:

Handout on "Uncover your Skills, Abilities, and Special Talents".  This will be used in conjunction with your resume.

Tuesday & Wednesday, October 10 & 11, 2017

Dear Class:

Learning Targets:
​Students will --​

1.       Identify work and education experience that is related to work world.

2.       ​Identify one strong career potential as your resume objective based upon your research.

3.       Know the five parts to a resume- personal information, job objective, education, work history and skills. 

Know career terms: job, occupation, cluster career, career learning areas

Career Vocabulary:

​JOB — A unique work situation or position, paid or unpaid. Activities performed on a regular basis in exchange for payment.

OCCUPATION — A group of related jobs that have similar duties, levels of responsibility, skills, knowledge, and physical demands. CIS uses about 600 occupational titles to describe the labor market.

CLUSTER — A way to group occupations by some common feature. Oregon uses 23 clusters to group occupations into five broad categories called Career Learning Areas.
​Career Learning Areas can help you focus on skills and knowledge related to your career goals and education plans.

CAREER — The combination of learning and work that a person pursues during his or her life. 

1.   First, we will watch a video recommended by the counseling department:  CEOs Share Career Advice and Opportunities

2.    Exploration of Specific Occupations 
Open and make a copy to answer.  You need to be logged into your gmail account for this to occur.  This will be done using CIS from the information on your specific job.
You will further do a handout:  Career Research WS

3.  Make sure you created a doc called Skills_Venn_Diagram and label both sides.  On the left side it should be labeled "My Skills" and the right side the job you are comparing it with.  Insert the  object/circles and go from there.

3.   We may do a Careers Analysis for your career.

4.   Today or next period, depending on time, we will explore what it will take to live on a fixed budget.

We may start the "Will My Job Support Me?" Follow the slide tutorial found in: a.k.a  Salary Based Budgeting

Complete a monthly budget for a minimum wage earner. You will select one of the following jobs and look up the beginning annual wage on slide 3/Step 2 of the tutorial: waiter/waitress/dishwasher; lawn mower, babysitter/ child care worker, barista, retail clerk, gas station attendant, laborer.

Go to the last slide and do the "Reflection". Your choice of career in this case was made for you....a minimum wage job at $11.25!

Pre-test for Resumes.

Continuing:

Handout on "Uncover your Skills, Abilities, and Special Talents".  This will be used in conjunction with your resume.