Career Clusters Exploration
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This lesson plan aims to teach students about career clusters over 45-50 minutes. Students will learn the different career clusters, how to identify career responsibilities, and methods of classifying occupations. They will read the story "How Santa Got His Job" and discuss which career clusters Santa's various jobs would fall under. The goal is for students to learn the relationship between personal interests and career exploration by comparing and contrasting career options within the different clusters.
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Career Clusters Exploration
- 1. Time Required: 45-‐50 minutes Objective: • Students will obtain knowledge on the different career clusters. • Students will learn how to identify and interpret career responsibilities. • Students will learn methods of classifying occupations. Content Standards: AA.S.4 Students will acquire the skills to investigate the world of work in relation to knowledge of self and to make informed career decisions. Indicators: AA.C.5.4.06 Compare and contrast different career options. AA.C.5.4.03 Develop an awareness of personal abilities, skills, interests and motivations. GOAL: Students will learn the relationship between personal interest and career exploration as they compare and contrast career options. Materials: 1. “How Santa Got His Job” By Stephen Krensky Book 2. Career Clusters Handout (Handout 1) Procedures and Discussion: 1. You may begin by asking students how many of them have already thought about what they want to do when they are old enough to work. You might ask why they are considering that career. Explain that they may think about many different jobs before they graduate from high school. Discuss the importance of eventually choosing a career that fits their personalities and interests. Explain how everybody encounters this process even Santa did. 2. Distribute Handout 1 -‐ “Career Clusters”. Introduce concept of career clusters. Discuss how career clusters provide a way for schools to organize student instruction and experiences around sixteen categories that encompass virtually all occupations. CHRISTMAS CAREER CLUSTERS EXPLORATION GRADE 1 through 7
- 2. Furthermore, how it helps teachers, counselors, and other school officials help them to discover what they want to do when they grow up. 3. Introduce each career cluster briefly. 4. Review story “How Santa Got His Job”. After each job Santa obtains, ask students which career cluster would that particular job fall under. 5. After reviewing the book completely, discuss how some careers have similar goals and how past experiences, jobs, can lead to the ideal career for an individual, just like it did for Santa. Also, identify responsibility of common careers in the career clusters discussed and relate these to current responsibility as a student. Inquiry relations from students. Additional Resources: At this website, students can click on a Holland job classification and see possible careers and college majors that match that occupational interest area • www.missouriwestern.edu/careerdevelopment/cig • http://www.vaview.vt.edu/resources/pdf/publications/exploringcareerclusters/C areer%20Clusters%20Elementary%20Educator%27s%20Guide%20and%20Ideas.p df Lesson Developed by: Cierra Fisher The Citadel Graduate College
- 3. CAREER CLUSTERS (Handout 1)
- 4. PREVIEW OF “HOW SANTA GOT HIS JOB”