HS.32 Making Decisions About Career Paths
This LifeKnowledge lesson (HS.32) helps high school students make decisions about their career paths by identifying factors to consider when making professional choices, exploring the four main options after high school, and creating a career brochure. Students complete a self-assessment, take notes on decision-making factors, and produce a brochure scored by a rubric.
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- Identify factors in making professional decisions.
- List possibilities of their professional life.
- Create a brochure about a career that is consistent with student interest.
- Time required
- Instruction time for this lesson: 50 minutes.
- Grade level
- High School
- Materials
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- Writing surface
- Overhead projector
- Access to resources about careers/student Internet access
- HS.32.TM.A
- HS.32.TM.B
- HS.32.Assess—one per student
- Copies of HS.32.AS.A—one per student
- Copies of HS.32.AS.B—one per student
- Unit
- Stage One of Development—ME
- Problem Area
- How Do I Begin to Grow?
- Precepts
- Make clear decisions in my professional life. Choose a career based on passion, abilities, and aptitudes.
- Key Terms
- Technical degree; Formal education; Mobility
- Resources
- Career Cluster Resources, 2002. Ricketts, Cliff. Leadership Personal Development & Career Success. Albany, New York. Delmar Publishers, 1997.
Downloads & Links
Lesson plan
Presentation
Aligned Standards
National Standards
- NSS-EC.9-12.2Effective Decision Making — Understand marginal benefit is the change in total benefit resulting from an action. Marginal cost is the change in total cost resulting from an action.