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Career
Development
Part B: Programs and websites
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• Copyright Shaun McElroy
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Includes:
• SAS program • Do What you are • Strengthsfinder
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Includes
• Bridges • ACT • Real Game
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Check out the links
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Strengths + Future Planning
Grade 9
DWYA
Grade 10
Strengths Career
DWYA
Grade 11
College Match Junior Interview Strengths Career
DWYA
Grade 12
Senior Retreat College Match Junior Interview Strengths Career
DWYA
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Strengths + Future Planning
Grade 9
DWYA
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“Individuals gain more when they build on their talents, than when they make comparable efforts to improve their areas of weakness.”
--Clifton & Harter
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The ‘Positive Psychology’ Model
“Positive Psychology … is the scientific study of optimal human functioning [that] aims to discover and promote the factors that allow individuals …to thrive. [It is the] psychology of
happiness , flow
, and
personal strengths
.” (Seligman, 1999).
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Writing Challenge
• Write 5 things you are known for • Write these same five with non-dominant hand • What is the Difference?
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Grade 10
Strengths Career
DWYA Strengths + Future Planning
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Strengths + Future Planning • What is it • How we used it • Pitfalls • Recommendations
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What Are Talents?
• Naturally occurring • Thoughts • Feelings • Behaviors
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What Are Strengths?
Talent Knowledge Skills =
Strength
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Questions to Identify Strengths
•What did you learn with the greatest ease in high school?
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Questions to Identify Strengths
•Describe a successful day.
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Questions to Identify Strengths
•What was your favorite assignment?
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Questions to Identify Strengths
•What subjects do you enjoy studying the most?
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Questions to Identify Strengths
•What comes easily for you?
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Questions to Identify Strengths
•Tell me about a time in your life when you accomplished something you were proud of.
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Evidence of your Strengths Achievements Intense satisfaction yearnings Rapid Learnings Flow
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“Individuals gain more when they build on their talents, than when they make comparable efforts to improve their areas of weakness.”
--Clifton & Harter, 2003
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Building Strengths
Identify the natural talent themes – Ways of
processing
information – Ways of
interacting
with people – Ways of
seeing
the world – Habits, behaviors, attitudes, and beliefs that can be
productively applied
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What are strengths?
• • • • •
Attitudes
that sustain efforts toward achievement and excellence
Behavior patterns
person effective that make a
Beliefs
succeed that empower a person to
Motivations
that propel a person to take action and maintain the energy needed to achieve
Thought patterns
person efficient that make a
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The Highest Achievers
• Spend most of their time in their areas of strength • Focus on developing and applying their strengths and managing their weaknesses • They don’t necessarily have more strengths —they have simply developed their strengths more fully and have learned to apply them to new situations
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More About the Highest Achievers • Use their strengths to overcome obstacles • Invent ways of capitalizing on their strengths in new situations and using their strengths to overcome areas of weakness • Or partner with someone with complimentary strengths
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StrengthsQuest –
Program Overview • Based on more than 35 years of GALLUP research into human talent and strengths • Set aside 40 uninterrupted minutes • 180 questions, forced choice • 20 seconds per question • Report: Top five signature Strengths
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Clifton StrengthsFinder TM
• Used with over 4 million people in 17 languages • over 250,000 college students • Over 400 Colleges • Over150 high schools • 34 signature themes – top 5
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Why Use an Instrument?
• Provides a common language to talk about strengths • Validates and affirms students’ experiences • Jump starts the conversation and provides a springboard for discussion
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Using Strengthsfinder
• Identifies top 5 themes • Six-month test-retest reliability across all populations ranges from .60 to .80
• Three-month test-retest reliability among college students ranges from .70 to .76
• Study from Harvard: Students preferred Strengths over MBTI or the Values Information Assessment
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Why Strengths?
Aim for:
• consistent, near-perfect performance in a given activity.
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When schools focus on Strengths:
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When schools focus on Strengths:
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When schools focus on Strengths:
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When schools focus on Strengths:
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The Focus Changes
FROM
: • Problems • Attendance • Preparation • Putting into the student • Average
TO
: • Possibilities • Engagement • Motivation • Drawing out from the student • Excellence
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Relationship between Positivity, Negativity, and Productivity.
– Study by Dr. Elizabeth Hurlock in 1925
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Top Strengths of ECA High School Faculty • Achiever (2) • Activator • Adaptability (2) • Arranger • Command • Consistency • Deliberative (2) • Discipline • Empathy (4) • Focus • Harmony • Ideation (2) • Includer (2) • Individualization • Input (4) • Learner • Positivity • Relator (2) • Responsibility • Restorative • Self-Assurance • Strategic • WOO
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Profile of typical ECA staff • Input – 15 • Learner – 14 • Intellection – 11 • Strategic – 10 • Achiever – 10 • Adaptability – 10
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Strengths – Teaching Staff
The Math Department Strengths at ECA Faculty Strength 1 Strength 2 Strength 3
Teacher 1 Deliberative Teacher 2 Input Teacher 3 Learner Teacher 4 Focus Competition Analytical Strategic Learner Adaptability Maximizer Analytical Self-Assurance
Strength 4 Strength 5
Analytical Deliberative Achiever Achiever Empathy Intellection Intellection Relator
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How to manage a person strong in Responsibility
• This person defines himself by his ability to live up to his commitments. It will be intensely frustrating for him to work around people who don’t. As far as possible avoid putting him in team situations with lackadaisical teammates. • In discussing his work, talk about its quality first.
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How to manage a person strong in Self Assurance
Give this person a role where he has the leeway to make meaningful decisions. He will neither want nor require close hand-holding. Position him in a role where persistence is essential to success. He has the self-confidence to stay the course despite pressure to change direction. Put him in a role that demands an aura of certainty and stability. At critical moments this inner authority will calm his colleagues and his customers.
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How to manage a person strong in Learner
Position this person in roles that require him to stay current in a fast-changing field. He will enjoy the challenge of maintaining his competency.
Regardless of his role, he will be eager to learn new facts, skills, or knowledge. Explore new ways for him to learn and remain motivated, lest he start hunting for a richer learning environment. Help him track his learning progress by identifying milestones or levels that he has reached. Celebrate these milestones.
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How to manage a person strong in Includer
This person is interested in making everyone feel part of the team. Ask him to work on an orientation program for new employees. He will be excited to think about ways to welcome these new recruits. As him to lead a task force to recruit minority persons into your organization. He is instinctively sensitive to those who are or have been left out. When you have group functions, ask him make sure that everyone is included. He will work hard to ensure that no individual or group is overlooked. In certain situations it may be appropriate to ask him to be your organization’s link to community social agencies.
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Sample of 9
th
Graders strengths at ECA
Student Strength 1
a Analytical b Adaptability c d e Consistency Learner Context f g h I j Competition Adaptability Restorative Activator Connectedness
Strength 2
Includer Self-Assurance Discipline Responsibility Relator Learner Command Empathy Adaptability Discipline
Strength 3
Adaptability Competition Achiever Focus Restorative Deliberative Competition Woo Includer Ideation
Strength 4
Consistency Positivity Positivity Ideation Intellection Restorative Activator Achiever Consistency Communication
Strength 5
Competition Woo Futuristic Input Input Achiever Positivity Positivity Arranger Self-Assurance
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strengths in English 10 class at ECA
Student
Student 1 Student 2 Student 3 Student 4 Student 5 Student 6 Student 7 Student 8 Student 9 Student 10 Student 11 Student 12
Grade
10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10
Strength 1
Restorative
Strength 2
Adaptability Communication Strategic Achiever Activator Includer Input Learner Context Includer Positivity Developer Learner Maximizer Adaptability Learner Adaptability Adaptability Focus Achiever Ideation Arranger
Strength 3
Includer Woo Woo Focus Futuristic Deliberative Activator Self-Assurance Strategic Context Harmony Developer Individualization
Strength 4
Belief Futuristic Input Analytical Intellection Restorative Woo Learner Ideation Includer Empathy Significance
Strength 5
Responsibility Ideation Positivity Connectedness Empathy Context Developer Restorative Deliberative Responsibility Communication Futuristic
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People Differ in Five Dimensions of Strengths • Their particular strengths • The relative intensity of their strengths • Their unique combination of strengths • The extent to which they have developed their strengths • The extent to which they are applying strengths in a given situation their
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Fundamental Educational Shift
“Survival of the fittest” “Deficit remediation” “Strengths-based education” • "As educators, our challenge and our joy is helping students move to levels of personal excellence by becoming the persons they have the potential to be. And the marvelous thing about this perspective is that in the process we also move toward our own levels of personal excellence, becoming the persons we have the potential to be." Chip Anderson
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uncover Apply to others Apply to self claim develop
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Our plan
• Complete StrengthsFinder • Share results with – Counselor – 2 friends – Your parents claim • Answer two reflection questions and send to your counselor
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Our plan
• Group work • Scavenger • Balconies and Basements claim develop
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Our plan
• Mission statement • Career development Apply to self develop
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Our plan
• College portfolio • Leadership development Apply to others Apply to self
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Strengths Development Model
Knowledge of Self Knowledge of Others Management of Self Management of Others
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Understanding
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The Challenge of Identifying and Affirming Talents
• May be so automatic that you are not aware of using them • You may have been put down or criticized for your talents • Many people try to control you by focusing on your weaknesses • We can be reluctant to focus on talents because we don’t want to look arrogant
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Challenges, cont
• Our society believes that the best way to improve is to overcome weaknesses.
• Sometimes people wish they were not as talented in certain themes and may consider those talents weaknesses
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Strengths Connect with 4 Key Motivational Drives
• THINKING • RELATING • IMPACTING • STRIVING
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StrengthsFinder
® • Achiever • Activator • Adaptability • Analytical • Arrange • Belief • Command • Communication • Competition • Connectedness • Consistency • Context • Deliberative • Developer • Discipline • Empathy • Focus • Futuristic • Harmony • Ideation • Includer • Individuation • Input • Intellection Learner Maximizer Positivity Relator Responsibility Restorative Self-Assurance Significance Strategic Woo
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Average GPA vs. Good Student GPA
3.6
3.4
3.2
3 2.8
2.6
9 10 11 12 A ve ra ge
Grade Level
Average GPA "Good Student" GPA
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Most occurring strengths to GPA
Adaptability Relator Strategic Posi tivity Competition 2.0-2.5
10 8 3 5 4
2.5-3.0
22 15 12 7 10
3.0-3.5
23 17 16 23 15
3.5-4.0
5 9 9 4 9
Total
60 49 40 39 38
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Highest GPA and strengths
Strategic Rest orative Input Learner Achiever
Total:
2.0-2.5
3 3 3 1 1 114
2.5-3.0
12 7 4 4 3 237
3.0-3.5
16 10 7 9 12 311
3.5-4.0
9 14 16 19 20 188
Total
40 34 30 33 36 850
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GPA and strengths
20 18 16 14 12 10 8 6 4 2 0 Strategic Restorative 2.0-2.5
2.5-3.0
Input 3.0-3.5
Learner 3.5-4.0
Achiever
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Strengths and low performance
25 20 15 10 5 0 2.0-2.5
2.5-3.0
3.0-3.5
Communication Developer Activator Relator Includer Adaptability 3.5-4.0
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Shaun’s themes
Includer Positivity Adaptability Woo
Strategic
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Putting it into practice
Challenges
• Time • Money • Cynicism
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Putting it into practice
Advice
• Do it yourself • Take the training • Get your teachers to do it • Start small • Find ways to link it to everything!
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Strengths + Future Planning
Grade 10
Strengths Career
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Strengths Career
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Strengths Career
DWYA • • • • • • What is the
career Why
? you choose? What
education
do you need? Name three
universities/colleges
that offer a program that would lead to career? What academic areas in
high school
should a student have/be strong in to pursue this career? What are the
prospects
of that career? (Will there be a demand for people in this career, can you make a living off of it, what are some related fields etc)
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Strengths Career
DWYA • • • • List two specific book etc)
resources
that would be useful for someone considering this career (association, website, journal, What do people
love about this career
?—talk to your parents, their friends, research online etc. What is your
biggest concern/worry
pursuing this career? With this career, would you be
following your bliss?
How so, or why not?
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Career
Grade 10
Strengths Career
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Strengths
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College Match Junior Interview Strengths Career
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College Match Junior Interview Strengths Career
DWYA Strengths + Future Planning • Junior Interview • Surveys • Parent and Child • The plan
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College Match Junior Interview Strengths Career
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Goal Self Considerations Values
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Strengths Career
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College Match Junior Interview Strengths Career
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Grade 12
Senior Retreat College Match Junior Interview Strengths Career
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Focus on strengths=Engagement
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Least occurring strengths to GPA
Connectedness Analytical Belief Disc ipline Intellection 2.0-2.5
1 2 2 2
2.5-3.0
2 4 3 3 1
3.0-3.5
5 5 4 3
3.5-4.0
1 6 2 6
Total
9 10 10 11 12
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PLAN Score Report Side 1
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Plan: Your Career Possibilities
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Retiring from the work force 63-84 years old
Generations at Work
Middle to end work force 46-62 years old Beginning to mid work force 26-45 years old In K-16 education system 6-25 years old Veterans or Traditionalists Baby Boomers Gen Xers Nexters or Millennials 1922-1943 1944-1960 1961-1980 1981-2000
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Veterans or Traditionalists
Core Values:
Conformity, hard work, duty, dedication and sacrifice, patience
Assets:
Loyal, stable, detail-oriented
Liabilities:
Uncomfortable with conflict, inept with ambiguity and change
Motivational Messages:
“Your experience is valued, and perseverance will be rewarded.”
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Core Values:
Baby Boomers
Optimism, team orientation, work involvement, personal gratification
Assets:
Service-oriented, driven, team player
Liabilities:
Reluctant to go against peers, overly sensitive to feedback
Motivational Messages:
“Your contribution is unique and important.”
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Core Values:
Gen Xers
Diversity, thinking globally, technoliteracy, fun, informality
Assets:
Adaptable, independent, creative
Liabilities:
Impatient, poor people skills, cynical, inexperienced
Motivational Messages:
“There are not a lot of rules here. Do it your way.”
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Nexters or Millennials
Core Values:
Civic duty, achievement, confidence, sociability, morality
Assets:
Tenacity, multi-tasking, tenacity
Liabilities:
Need for supervision and structure
Motivational Messages:
“You’ll be working with other bright, creative people.”
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Significant Shift in Leadership
• 90% of American businesses are family owned • ¾ family owned leaders will leave in 10 years • 40% will leave in 5 years
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QuickTime™ and a TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor are needed to see this picture.
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ASCA National Standards for School Counseling Programs Academic Development Career Development Personal/Social Development
Students acquire attitudes, knowledge and skills for effective learning in school and across the lifespan.
Students acquire skills to investigate the world of work in relation to knowledge of self and to make informed career decisions.
Students acquire knowledge, attitudes, interpersonal skills to help them understand and respect self and others.
Students complete school with academic preparation to choose from a wide range of post secondary options.
Students employ strategies to achieve career goals with success and satisfaction.
Students make decisions, set goals and take action to achieve goals.
Students understand the relationship of academics to the world of work and to life at home and in the community.
Students understand the relationship between personal qualities, education, training, and world of work.
Students understand safety and survival skills.
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Years 3 & 4 Career Management
Curricula
Years 9 & 10 Years 5 & 6 Years 7 & 8 Years 11 & 12 www.realgame.com
Adults
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The Real Game Series ™
Aligned with California Academic Standards Implements the National Career Development Guidelines Meets ASCA National Standards for Career Development Is consistent with SCANS foundations skills and competencies Identifies learning objectives and performance indicators for each learning unit Provides a performance review for each game • • The Real Game Series™ U.S. Video CD Training Promotion
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Benefits of The Real Game Series
As reported from parents, teachers, administrators, and counselors:
4.
5.
6.
1. Students see the relevance of their education to their future lives; 2.
3.
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Students become more enthusiastic about school and learning; Academic performance increases; School attendance increases; Students develop strong career management skills; Bullying behavior decreases; and Students are more communicative and understanding with parents / guardians.
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Our grade 10 career assignment
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The assignment
• 1: Review • 2: Career Matching • 3. Research • 4. Reflections • 5. Share
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1: Review
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2: Career Matching
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2: Career Matching
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2: Career Matching
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2: Career Matching
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2: Career Matching
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3. Research
• Labour Market Information • What is this job about?
• What do you • need to do to • get it?
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3. Research
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3. Research
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4. Reflections
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5. Share
• Did you send it to your counselor?
• Did you share it with your parents?
• We will share in class—discussion circle
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Key points
• Does it match your personality?
• Does it highlight your strengths?
• Will you be following your bliss?
• Are you taking the right educational program?
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• Feedback • Questions • Comments
The End
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