Career Seminar

Week

Dates

Assignment/Discussion

Work Due

 

1

1/16 – 1/20
(1/16 – No School -  MLK)
1/19 – Minimum Day

1/17 –  CO; GKYA; Define Success
1/18 – GTKY Activities & Interviews  
1/19 – GTKY Interviews, Intro. to RTN1
1/20 – CPU Lab

- Course Orientation
- Getting to Know You Activities
- Define Success

Personality

2

1/23 – 1/27

1/23 – RTN Video (Take Notes)
1/24 – RTN 2
1/25 –  RTN 3 and 4
1/26 –  Guest Speaker – Dan Williams
1/27 –  CPU Lab

- RTN Notes Due
- RTN 1 and 2

3

1/30 – 2/3

1/30 – RTN Video (Take Notes)
1/31 – RTN 5 and 6
2/1 –
2/2 – RTN 7 and 8
2/3 – CPU Lab

- RTN 3 and 4
- RTN 5 and 6
- RTN Notes

 

4

2/6- 2/10
2/9 – Minimum Day

 

2/6 – RTN 9 & RTN Video (Take Notes)
2/7 –  RTN 10 (Take Notes)
2/8 –
2/9 – RTN 11
2/10 – CPU Lab

- RTN 7 and 8
- RTN 9 and 10
- RTN Notes

Perception....Your perception now is still developing

Waterfall illusion

5

2/13 – 2/17
(2/16 PR #3)
2/17 No School

2/13 – RTN 12 & Video (Take Notes)
2/14 – RTN 13 and 14
2/15 – Guest Speaker
2/16 –  CPU Lab
2/17 – No School

- RTN 11 and 12
- RTN 13 and 14
- RTN Notes

Take students to VHS Career Paths website; School to Career at Valencia High. Discuss and explore. Encourage students to join a career path. Print Career Path Applications and follow up on Monday. Students take career path application to advisor for signature, and then can bring ot to Career 9 teacher. We then put them in Jeannie WHite's box.

Prezi.com Learn prezi, then create a prezi called "Career Themes". You need to use 8 themes we have covered in class (such as "failure"), and each theme needs a few sentence description of the theme along with a picture that shows the themes' concept.

6

2/20 – 2/24
2/20 No school

2/20 – No School
2/21 –  Meet with Counselors
2/22 – RTN 15 & Video (Take Notes)
2/23 –   RTN 16 and 17
2/24 – CPU Lab

- RTN Notes

CREATE TEAMS FOR FINAL PROJECT. Preview: Assignment sheet, grade sheet, . remember your group skills. "Who has a camera?"

7

2/27-3/2
3/1 Minimum Day

2/27 –  RTN 18 & 19, Video (Take Notes)
2/28–  Meet with Counselors
3/1 –    RTN 20 and 21
3/2 –  RTN 22 and 23
12/9 –  CPU Lab

- RTN Notes

 

8

3/5 – 3/9

3/5 - CPU Lab
3/6 – CPU Lab
3/7 – CPU Lab
3/8 -  CPU Lab
3/9 – CPU Lab

- Prepare for Presentations

 

9

3/12-3/16
3/16 Minimum Day

3/12 – RTN Presentations
3/13 – RTN Presentations
3/14 - RTN Presentations
3/15 - RTN Presentations
3/16 - RTN Presentations

- Power Point Presentation
- Video Interview
- RTN 15-23

 

 

 

Career link
DEveloping CAreers ...9th grade seminar
Career 9 focuses on helping to students to explore careers thay may want to persue, learn about their personailty and how to work in teams, to develop communication and organization skills, and an understanding of how personal finance skills realte to their career choice.
Day
Topic
  43 days Q1, 40 days Q2,
Oct Valencia High School….    
24

School tour for 1st quater students. Syllabus, School rules, dress code, electronic devices, computer rules, logging in to the computer, school  email, Infinite Campus, seating chart. Any of these items can be forwarded to another day if necessary

High School reminders.....

 
25   Mr. Inemer "Value of an Education" presentation  
  Work Place Skills,
relate to several careers
   
26  

Communication skills: Shaking hands instruction and activity. Then....

Have students interview each other in pairs, have them pick someone in the room that they do not know very well or at all.
Then discuss good speaking skills, such as not saying "um or "uh", hands at the side, no fidgeting, and speaking loud enough for students in the back to hear you.
Then have each pair of students come up to the front and present the other person to the class.
Usually takes the whole period.  critique students after each presentation as needed.

CTE website

...(these skills will be integrated throughout this course. I need to develop a better way for students to see this big picture) SCANS….wix, Prezi and presentations, speaking, organization, homework tracking, handwriting and its link to creativity, writing essays, responsibility, Khan academy, editing a  video, writing, reading

27   Topic: Motivation. go thru section three and discuss as a class. Then have students do the activity. Show a road trip nation video.  
28  

REALITY CHECK: Being able to afford to live on the career you choose, personal finance

Also, introduce VBC Personal Finance game.

 
31   Go thru book lesson #4 with students and show video  
  Who Am I Three needs: something to do, someone to love, something to look forward to  
November 1  

SCVcareercentral.com. Go to this site first and register as a teacher. You can then look at how they have it set up for students to explore their personality and interests in relation to career choices.

Have students register on this district sponsored website. Then have them begin working on guideway #1. Encourage them to take their time when doing activities that only require clicking, as they will just keep clicking and not put as much thought into their answers.

SCVcareercentral.com.
2   RTN lesson 5 reading,dicsussion, activity and RTN video "Success, Risk, Failure"  
3   Lesson 6 Hard work versus luck, assignment is an interview. Video  
4      
7   Lesson 7 Work versus Life's Work...Paying the bills is necessary, but working towards a career you will enjoy is important....sometimes you have to take a job to survive, but keep your goals...  
8  

Lesson 8 Self Confidence, fake it till you make it. Pulls ignoring those who will hold you down, paying attention to those who give good advice Video

 
9  

Career cluster videos and discuss more about personality and careers.

Student email and Khanacademy.com

Perception....Your perception now is still developing

Waterfall illusion

 
10 Computer lab

SCVcareercentral.com. Continue Guideway 1 thru end...Discuss the connections between personality and career satisfaction.

VBC Personal Finance, can always discuss real life financial items from the game

 
11 Holiday    
14   RTN video and discussion, email out for classroom visits  
15November Counselors Counselors are coming in to our rooms  
16  

Visit some career path classrooms (see email about what periods and rooms)

 
17   Take students to VHS Career Paths website; School to Career at Valencia High. Discuss and explore. Encourage students to join a career path. Print Career Path Applications and follow up on Monday. Students take career path application to advisor for signature, and then can bring ot to Career 9 teacher. We then put them in Jeannie WHite's box.  
18   Computer lab  
       
21   RTN Lesson 10, video  
22   Go to counseling office  
23   RTN Lesson 11 and video  
       
28  

CREATE TEAMS FOR FINAL PROJECT. Preview: Assignment sheet, grade sheet, . remember your group skills. "Who has a camera?"

Final Project groups: RTN lessons 15,16

 
29   RTN 12 and video.. Reflection assignment  
30November  

RTN 13/14 and video

Have students focus on making the appointment to interview.

 
1 December  

Computer lab: Teach Prezi.com or Google docs for final presentation have students create a short presentation based on the themes used in the class so far. Survey (by "secret ballot") students for top 3 careers they would be interested in for the final project.

 

 
2  

 

Dan Williams class visit

 
  (filler)?

 

 
5December  

Sheriff department presentation on tolerance (2 periods)

 
6  

Final Project groups: RTN lessons 17, 18,19,20 (relatively short).

Show video and discuss best way to make the video (sound quality is #1 problem)

 
7   Several Days to work on presenstation in class  
8  

 

Several Days to work on presenstation in class

9   Several Days to work on presenstation in class
       
12December   Presentations  
13   Presentations  
14   Presentations  
15   Presentations  
16   Presentations  
FINALS DAY  

Thank you note to who you interviewed

Reflection Essay

Exit Survey

 
       
   

 

 
       
       
       
       
       
       
     
     
 

 

 
     
       
     
     
 

 

 
    Another teacher's career site  
  Not part of the class yet

Finding a job, Applying for a job

Monster.com
  Personality and learning, learning  styles,Interests and values  
  Choosing and choice, motivation
 

Skills, aptitudes, soft skills

SWOT personal analysis

 
    Perception and others  
 

Why is ettiquette important?

Business Etiquette (show with speakers from projector)

Dinner Etiquette

Relationships, Teamwork.. In the work place you don't usually get to choose.

 
  Teamwork: working in groups, assign groups for career interview  
    The Law?  Penal  code 490.6, 4 day week,