Transcript USA TODAY
Career Challenge
Enrich 21 st Century Skills
Curriculum Objectives
1) Identify interests & enthusiasms 2) Determine employability 3) Explore personal qualities & personality traits 4) Select a few career options 5) Consider what courses and activities needed to pursue career options 6) Explore career options through shadowing
Career Challenge Program Components
USA TODAY Newspapers education.usastoday.com
Career Challenge Workbooks
Value of USA TODAY
Career Challenge:
Students will:
• Reflect on their own
strengths and interests
• Learn of the successes
and failures of today’s businesspeople
• Understand career/job
trends
• Become aware of the
globalized economy
• Explore business
news/stock market
For Students:
High-interest Exclusive features & investigative reports Color photos Clear & concise style
The Career Challenge Program
The Power of “Written” Goals
Harvard Study - 1953 MBA graduating class interviews determined that:
• 10% had goals.
Beliefs vs. action • 70% believed goals were important to success.
• 3% had a “written” plan to achieve goals.
Results • 30 years later, in 1983, the 3% that had “written” plans to achieve goals had more income and net worth than the other 97% combined.
• 2 years later, in 1985, MIT found that the 3% with a “written” plan had four times the net worth of the other 97% combined.
•Source: Dr. David McCellan, Harvard Business School
Lessons
Addresses Career Standards
• Apply knowledge of personal interests, abilities, values • Develop knowledge of relationship between educational attainment to career opportunities • Understand the relationship between work and learning • Develop skills to locate and use sources of career information • Understand the process of career planning
Features of Inside USA TODAY
• Encourages sustained reading and higher-order thinking • Weekly cross curricular activity.
• Content-specific student graphic organizer
• News resources • Lesson Plan archives • Special interest • Lessons by core subject • Career education • Event features • Case Studies • Project-based learning