Approximate Time Needed:
45-90 minutes (depending on desired depth of
assignment).
Lesson Summary:
Students will "shop" for information on the careers they select during
the preliminary aspects of the career search through a two-step process of
researching and summarizing key data on several career choices.
Lesson Objective:
Students will acquire and demonstrate a deeper understanding of their
personal career interests through a combined research and writing
process.
Materials and Resources:
- Pre-requisite: Students must complete the Career
Search and store at least five careers to their
Locker. The Guidance Counselor may access the User
Directory or User Management module of the Administrator side of
ECOS to check if this step has been completed.
- Career module.
- Student's Locker.
- Exercises tool for
helpful directions.
- Career Exploration Worksheet
- Students need a pen/pencil and paper/notebook on which to write
notes from the specific careers.
Helpful Hints:
Adapt the number of careers investigated depending on time restraints, computer
space, and/or ability level of the student(s).
Activities:
- Students login using their User ID and Password and
return to their Locker where they will see the careers they have
selected. Students may remove careers by clicking the box in the
Remove column or add careers by returning to the Career
module and clicking on Results.
- Students click on any one of the pre-selected careers in their
Locker and begin taking
down the appropriate information (e.g. job description, nature of work,
education and training, salary, career outlook, etc.) needed to complete
the Career Exploration Worksheet.
- After students have taken down notes from the selected number of
careers, they can begin transferring information to the table. To give
the students time and space to digest the large amount of new
information, the students could most effectively complete this segment
of the exercise for homework.
Evaluation:
Students submit the completed table to the Guidance Counselor, OR to the teacher
responsible for the class, the next day and add it to the individual student's file .
Possible Adaptations:
Place students in groups of similar career
interests.