HS.40 Advancing a Career
This is a LifeKnowledge high school FFA lesson (HS.40, “Advancing a Career”) that teaches students the factors that help people advance in their careers and guides them through developing a personal strategy to advance in a chosen career. Using the example of becoming a National FFA officer, career ladders, and ten career-advancement factors, students complete a worksheet that maps education, work experience, and training/skills across the stages of a career. It includes transparency masters, a student activity sheet, an assessment, and a grading rubric.
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- Explain factors that help people advance in careers.
- Choose a career and develop a strategy to advance in the career.
- Time required
- Instruction time for this lesson: 50 minutes.
- Grade level
- High School
- Materials
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- Writing surface
- Overhead projector
- Transparencies HS.40.TM.A–F
- Copies of HS.40.AS.A—one per student
- Copies of HS.40.ASSESS and HS.40.ASSESS.A—one per student
- Unit
- Stage One of Development—ME
- Problem Area
- How Do I Begin to Grow?
- Precepts
- I5 Demonstrate exemplary employability skills.
- Key Terms
- Integrity; Mentor
Downloads & Links
Lesson plan
Presentation
Aligned Standards
National Standards
- NSS-EC.9-12.1Productive Resources — Understand choices made by individuals, firms, or government officials have long run unintended consequences that can partially or entirely offset the initial effects of the decision.