Lesson
Plan - March 2012
Class:
English
10
Subject:
Identifying,
learning about, and creating a career plan
Duration:
40
Minutes
Description:
Students
in 10th grade English classes are currently completing a research
project connected to the Kiva website.
Throughout the project they will learn about micro financing, how the
site works, and in depth information about their loan of choice. In this lesson students will look at
the Kiva website to brainstorm on what jobs are involved in creating and
managing the site and loans.
Objectives:
The
objective of this lesson is for students to identify the vast amount of jobs
and careers that are involved in the running of the site and the organization,
using the career clusters in our Naviance Program.
Materials:
Laptops,
Internet access
Procedure:
Lesson:
Identify
one or two people and their positions on any of the following website pages:
Team
Volunteer
Board
History
Describe
some of the jobs as a class.
Development,
Human Resources, Office Coordinator, Software Engineer, Web Designer, Finance,
Legal, Marketing, just to name a few.
Can
you picture doing any of these jobs?
To find
out a little more about the job you chose
Use
Naviance to learn about type of training and education
Concluding
Activity:
Students
will blog their findings on my site.
Comment on a
classmates findings.
Assessment:
Were
students able to understand a new career in more depth? Could they describe what a particular
person from Kiva does in more detail?
Were they able to identify with one of the jobs? Could they determine an academic
connection to the career they chose?
Where they able to use Naviance?
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