Lawrence's+Lesson+Plan

__ Overview of Lesson Plan __ Job Search Lesson Plan: //The purpose of this lesson is for students to search for a job in an occupational area that they are interested in. As part of this process, students will research information about the job from the company website as well as general data and information about the job from the bureau of labor statistics. Students will analyze the information from using the NARA worksheets as well as a KWL chart. The purpose of the lesson is for students to practice analyzing primary resources as well as learn career and job search skills.// __Subject Area__ · Personal Finance / Business Law - Marketing / Accounting. This plan could be applied to any area with an emphasis on careers in the fields related to the class. It meets many standards regarding careers among the curriculum. __ Duration __ · Two-Three 82-minute periods __ Materials Needed __ · Access to Internet with resource link to the Occupational Outlook Handbook [] (Bureau of Labor Statistics). · Site of company the student wants to work for with links to employment opportunities and job description documents. · A copy of the KWL chart and NARA worksheet (one for each source)

__ Prior Knowledge __ · Students were engaged in a lesson regarding careers categories and job opportunities. · Students were engaged in a lesson regarding the forms of business ownership as well structures that exists in each.

__ Lesson Procedures __ · Students will choose a career and related job to that career they are interested. · Students will complete the first column of the KWL sheet describing what they know now. · Students will complete the second column of the KWL asking them what they want to know. · students will use the occupational outlook handbook to search for attributes of that job, these will includes...  o  Salary and benefits o Locations of opportunities o Required education and experience o Additional training / education after the job o Job outlooks for the future · Students will then search for an opening in the career area they chose and locate a job description document from the company website. · Using the occupational outlook handbook and job description, students will analyze each using a separate NARA sheet. · Students will then complete the KWL sheet, third column, listing the new things they learned. __ Product __ · Students will prepare a resume' by pretending they are the person for the job. This is to help them understand the career and position more clearly, as well as provide them with additional resume' practice skills. Also, students will increase critical thinking skills by using data and information in helping them consider career options. · Future lesson plans may include researching the area the jobs are located in.

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This sounds like a very worthwhile lesson. I plan to have my college and HS age sons check out the Occupational Outlook site. You do a great job of combining a pertinent topic and use of the KWL analysis tool. This lesson should be beneficial to students as they learn about possible careers and sort out their areas of interest. Wish I had done more of this years ago! Good job! Jean ======

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This is a great lesson plan and one in which all high school students should be there for. This gives students a better understanding of what jobs are out there and also what education or job experience they will need in order to be qualified for the job. I do a similar lesson/activity with my Careers class. I actually use the site, careercruising.com which I have attached below. This site allows students to research countless amounts of occupations based on criteria (salary, hours, education) that the student sets. Something about you lesson that I don't do is having the students create a resume for that job. This is a great idea because it begins to get the students thinking about what they will need to do in order to be qualified for a job that they want. Great lesson and thanks for sharing it.====== Doug-Thanks for the site link. This would be a great addition to this lesson.