I didn't blog last week because I spent all of my time going back and forth with my lesson. Ultimately I am having a tough time making everything fit. At the end of the day, I've been trying to come up with a lesson involving career exploration. I believe that being aware of options and pathways is something that can help our students. Our students have so much information at their fingertips on a daily basis - between laptops and phones (not that they are supposed to use them in class!)
Anyway, I've done some lessons before and they are semi-successful. What I've learned from my "tablemates" is that the 10th grade English students are very much interested in the Kiva project. So, the angle I'm taking now is to try and use that site as a springboard for career exploration. For the site and the organization to exist there are a number of different types of jobs and careers. Using a site that the students are already familiar with and interested in could keep their attention.
So... at the moment that's the plan.
For example, just looking at the Kiva "team" there are a ton of jobs in different career clusters - legal, marketing, finance, engineering, etc. By brainstorming with the class on some of these jobs, the students can then select something they find interesting and research further on either the Naviance site or the career project site I found earlier in this class (http://www.thecareerproject.org/Home)
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