• CAREER DEVELOPMENT DOMAIN

    Standard

    Competency

    Indicators

    K-2

    3-5

    6-8

    A. Students will acquire the skills to investigate the world of work in relation to knowledge of self and to make informed career decisions.

     

     

     

    C:A1

    Develop Career Awareness

    Learn about the variety of traditional and non-traditional occupations.

     

    Develop an awareness of personal abilities, skills, interests, and motivations.

     

    Develop hobbies and vocational interests.

    Learn how to interact and work cooperatively in teams.

     

    Learn to make decisions.

     

    Learn how to set goals.

     

    Balance between work and leisure time.

    Develop skills to locate, evaluate and interpret career information.

     

    Understand the importance of planning.

     

    Pursue and develop competency in the areas of interest.

     

     

    C:A2

    Develop Employment Readiness

    Develop a positive attitude toward work and learning.

     

    Utilize time- and task-management skills.

     

    Acquire employability skills such as working on a team and problem-solving and organization skills.

    Understand the importance of responsibility, dependability, punctuality, integrity and effort in the work place.

    B. Students will employ strategies to achieve future career goals with success and satisfaction

    B. Students will employ strategies to achieve future career goals with success and satisfaction

     

     

     

     

     

    C:B1

    Acquire Career Information

    Identify personal skills, interests, and abilities and relate them to current career choice

    Know the various ways in which occupations can be classified.

     

    Describe traditional and nontraditional career choices and how they relate to career choice.

    Apply decision-making skills to career planning, course selection and career transition.

     

    Demonstrate knowledge of career planning process.

    Use research and information resources to obtain career information.

     

    Understand how changing economic and societal needs influence employment trends and future training.

     

     

     

     

    C:B2

    Identify Career Goals

    Demonstrate awareness of the education and training needed to achieve career goals.

     

    Use employability and job readiness skills in internship, mentoring, shadowing, and/or other work experience.

     

    Select course work that is related to career interests.

     

     

    Maintain a career-planning portfolio.

    C. Students will understand the relationship between personal qualities, education, training and the world of work.

     

     

     

    C:C1

    Acquire Knowledge to Achieve Career Goals.

    Understand the relation-ship between educa- tional achievement and career success.

     

    Understand that work is an important and satisfying means of personal expression.

    Explain how work can help achieve personal success and satisfaction.

     

    Understand the importance of equity and access in career choice.

    Identify personal preferences and interests influencing career choice and success.

     

    Understand that the changing workplace requires lifelong learning and acquiring new skills.

     

    Describe the effect of work on lifestyle.

     

     

    C:C2

    Apply Skills to Achieve Career Goals

    Learn how to use conflict management skills with peers and adults.

    Demonstrate how interests, abilities and achievement relate to achieving personal, social, educational and career goals.

    Apply academic and employment readiness; skills in work-based learning situations such as internships, shadowing and/or mentoring experiences.