Career Leadership, April 11-15

Career Project

Week 2, Careers Leadership

Monday
Team Building
5 C's of Leadership

Tuesday
Team Building
30 second speeches
Career Quizzes: Take screen shots of all your results and save them to your Google Drive. 

• Career Clusters
• Videos about your top career cluster
• Holland Code Quiz
• Video Explaining Holland Codes:

• Career Quiz

week 13

11th Grade, week 11

Monday
I will be able to create a job shadow reflection presentation. I will be able to discuss ethical dilemmas regarding work place situations.

• Job reflection questions - Where did you go? What did you do? What did you learn?

Tuesday
I will be able to give a job shadow reflection presentation. I will be able to discuss ethical dilemmas regarding work place situations.

Wednesday
I will be able to

• resume
• job to apply for
• cover letter
• Cover letter generator 
• job shadow reflection

Thursday

Friday

11th Grade, week 10

Monday
SNOW DAY

Tuesday
Students will be able to practice interview and communication skills. Students will determine the important aspects of a student resume.

• Interview skills 
• What's in a resume?

Wednesday

Students will be able to create a unique resume that contains all the requirements set out by the class AND stands out to employers. Students will be able to discuss ethical dilemmas in career settings. Students will be able to determine what a successful job shadow. 

• Mrs. Rose's Pinterest board for resumes
• resume building 
• ethical dilemma article
• Questions

Thursday

Students will be able to pull information out of a reading.

• Sherron Watkins chapter and activity
• Students who already job shadowed - Where did you go? What did you do?
• Present the information anyway you choose.

Friday

Students will be able to pull information out of a reading.

• Job Shadow reflection assignment - Where did you go? What did you do?

• Present the information anyway you choose.
• Article on woman in Portland
• Ethical dilemmas

11th grade, week 9

Monday
Students will be able to identify integrity in real life situations. Students will be able to design a list of interview questions.

• College visit debrief - U of M
• empathy conversation presentations 
• design your interview - this should be done by Friday (list of questions, person interviewed, and narrative back to Mrs. Rose.)

Tuesday
Students will be able to analyze and discuss various resume designs.

• Conversation presentations?
• Interview questions - share with one other person in this classroom
• Resume formats
• As we move through the classroom, answer the question depending on which round we are on. (Example: During round 1, we will all answer the round 1 question on our sheet. Round 2, all answer round 2.)

Wednesday
Students will be able to 

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Thursday
Students will be able to 

Friday
Students will be able to analyze information and discuss the dilemma presented. 

Life Skills, Career, and Leadership, week 8

Monday
Students will be able to demonstrate positive communication skills during an argument.

• Finish recording skits
• Are you ready for your college visit?

Tuesday

Students will be able to demonstrate positive communication skills during an argument.

• Are you ready for your college visits? Job Shadow?
• Integrity and Honesty presentation
• Notes 

Wednesday

Students will get prepared for college visits. Students will recognize real life examples of honesty and integrity.

• College visit scavenger hunt (prizes for winners)
• Make sure you are 100% ready for tomorrow!
• work on notes scenarios

Thursday

Students will be visiting universities and gathering information. 

Students not college visiting today:

• Virtual Tours of universities. Take notes and fill out as much information from the scavenger hunt as you can.
• Lincoln Tech
• GRCC
• MCC
• GVSU
• Davenport 
• MIT
• Feel free to Google virtual tours of a college that you are interested in!
• Scholarship Searches! Start looking for ways to fund your education!
• ACT prep? Homework time?

Friday

Students will be able to debrief and reflect on their college visit experiences.

11th grade, week 7

Monday
I can identify positive and negative conversation 

• Conversation practice - show off your positive OR negative conversation skills

Tuesday
I can define empathy. I can define the rules of fair fighting.

• Empathy activity
• Activity reflection
• What are the rules of fair fighting?

Wednesday
 I can define the rules of fair fighting. I can apply empathetic conversation skills. 

• Finish our discussion on fair fighting
• What do you do when you are angry?
• Show off your empathy skills in conversation

Thursday
I can apply empathetic conversation skills. 

• Show your skit rough draft to Mrs. Rose
• Final draft of skit 
• start practicing OR filming
• Who do you want to interview? What are you going to interview them about? (Choose something in the past that will be meaningful to that person.)
• Example: I started talking to my husband about the day Lennon died. His first thought was NOT John Lennon the musician, but Vladimir Lennon, a past Russian political leader.

Friday - early release
I can practice my interviewing skills.

• Choose 5 interview questions
• What are we looking for in an interview?
• Confidence - eye contact, posture
• body language - attitude
• greeting - handshake, hello
• Practice with your classmates.

11th Grade, week 6

Monday

• Communication warm-up
• review goals
• review what a personal mission statement is
• work on mission statements
• All goals and mission statements final drafts are due tomorrow!.

Tuesday

• Lap top cart!
• Post goals, career presentation and vision board
• Change description of blog to be your personal mission statement
• start looking into a college to visit
• IMPORTANT DATES
• end of trimester: Feb 27th
• College Visit day: Jan 22
• Job Shadow Days: Feb 5, 12

Wednesday

• Empathy in Communication
• presentation
• ACT benchmark starting at 10:15am

Thursday

• Empathy in Communication presentation

11th Grade, week 5

Monday

Career presentations

Tuesday

• Career presentations
• Step one of mission statement: mind map about yourself
• Read the article (click on the link) and follow the steps for creating a personal mission statement.
• Here is another resource to help. The Five-Step Plan for Creating Personal Mission Statements

Wednesday

• Career presentations?
• Food planning for Friday
• Step 1 of mission statement - share your mind map with another students
• Step 2 of mission statement

Thursday

• Career presentations
• Mission statements

Friday

• FOOD
• finish mission statements

11th Grade, week 4

Students will be able to inform the class on their projected careers. Students will be able to discuss why attitude and preparation are vital in their career paths. Students will be able to set goals and discuss why having goals is important.

Monday
Question of the day: If you were given a box of pencils, list 10 things that you could do with them that are not their traditional use.

• Attitude!
• Now: preparation!
• Career presentations

Tuesday
Question of the day: Tell me about when you you had to deal with a co-worker who wasn't doing his fair share of the work. What did you do and what was the outcome?

• Preparation
• Goal setting
• Start discussing mission statements

Wednesday
Question of the day: How would you test an elevator?

• Career Presentations

Thursday
Question of the day: Describe a decision you made that was a failure. What happened and why?

• Answer today's question and yesterday's question on a sheet of paper. Turn it into Mr. Washington.
• Finish your goals from Tuesday. Share the document with me. (Or turn in the paper to Mr. Washington.)
• Read the article (click on the link) and follow the steps for creating a personal mission statement.
• Here is another resource to help. The Five-Step Plan for Creating Personal Mission Statements

Friday
Question of the day: Tell me a joke.

• Career Presentations

11th Grade Leadership, week 3

Monday - Wednesday
1. Vision Boards (What do I want to do/out of life?)
2. Career Presentations (guidelines can be found in week 2)


Thursday - Friday
1. What is attitude?
2. What does it have to do with my future?

11th Grade Leadership, week 2

Monday - Tuesday

• Review 5 C's of Leadership
• Career Requirements

11th Leadership, week 1

Monday
contract building
What is leadership?

Tuesday - SNOW DAY

Wednesday
Pre-test: Essay on "What is leadership?"
5 C's of Leadership: Courage, Commitment, Confidence, Communication and Character

Thursday and Friday
5 C's of Leadership: Courage, Commitment, Confidence, Communication and Character