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|Title: Career Preparation |Author Information: |
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|Content Area: Technological Literacy |Name: Greg Farley |
|Grade Level: 9-12 |School: Orange High School |
| |District: City of Orange |
| |County: Essex |
|Student Learning Objectives: |NJ Core Curriculum Content Standards |
|Students will be able to: |Content Area |
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|Identify career interests and aptitudes through use of |Grade |
|self-assessments. |Strand |
|Utilize websites to research career fields. |CPI |
|Prepare a written report utilizing word processing software | |
|regarding their chosen career field. |Career Education and Consumer, Family, and Life Skills |
|Produce a multi-media (PowerPoint) presentation to communicate | |
|information pertaining to their chosen career field to their |9.1 |
|peers. |9-12 |
|Create a resume and cover letter for their chosen career field. |A |
| |1,2,3 |
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| |Career Education and Consumer, Family and Life Skills |
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| |9.1 |
| |9-12 |
| |B |
| |1,2,3 |
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| |Technological Literacy |
| |8.1 |
| |9-12 |
| |A |
| |1,2,5 |
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| |Technological Literacy |
| |8.1 |
| |9-12 |
| |A |
| |6 |
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|Purpose and Overview: |
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|The purpose of this project is to have students become familiar with the career planning process. In addition, students will be able to research |
|career fields and communicate findings in a written and multimedia format. The culmination of this activity will be for students to find a classified|
|advertisement for an entry-level position in their chosen field and to prepare a resume and cover letter that could be submitted to the employer for |
|that position. |
|Instructional Activity: |
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|Students will access and complete at least five career aptitude assessments (teacher may vary number depending on time allotted). Assessments may |
|include but are not limited to those found on the following websites: |
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|Students will develop a graphic organizer related to one of the State’s Sixteen Career Clusters found at
|The graphic organizer should include: |
|Name of career cluster, pathways, and specific examples of careers in each pathway. |
|View the career plan at for information on type of courses needed in high school. Write a paragraph summary |
|on how your current coursework is preparing you for one of the clusters. |
|Students will use their findings to select a career/career field to research. Research should include: |
|Description of career/career field including the nature of the work; |
|Required training and education; |
|Employment outlook; |
|Earning potential; |
|Related occupations; and |
|Demand for people entering the field and possibility of moving to positions with |
|more responsibility (career ladder). |
|Students can use the following websites to research their chosen career/career field. |
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|Students will compile research findings into a formal report utilizing word processing software. Students are to include a citation page of |
|resources. |
|Students will also use research findings to create a multimedia presentation to present to their peers. |
|Teacher will lead discussion on resume writing using articles from the following website . |
|Students will further research resume writing using the following websites: |
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|Students will use the Internet to find an authentic entry-level employment opportunity related to their career choice. |
|Students will use word processing software to prepare a resume and cover letter for an entry-level position in chosen career field. |
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|Assessment Strategies: Rubrics for Holistic Scoring |
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|Use the New Jersey Writing Rubric found at . |
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|Career Awareness and Report Rubric |
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|Student Name __________________ |
|Date: _____________ |
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|RUBRICS |
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| Career Research Report |
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|SCORE |
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|SELF AWARENESS |
|Completes all five personal assessment inventories. |
|Completes four out of five personal assessment inventories. |
|Completes three out of five personal assessment inventories. |
|Completes two out of five personal assessment inventories. |
|Completes one out of five personal assessment inventories. |
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|ORGANIZATION |
|Information is very organized with well-constructed paragraphs and subheadings. |
|Information is organized with well-constructed paragraphs. |
|Information is organized, but paragraphs are not well-constructed. |
|The information appears to be disorganized. |
|The information appears to be disorganized. |
|There is no information to support topic. |
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|AMOUNT OF INFO. |
|All topics are addressed and all questions answered with at least 2 sentences about each. |
|All topics are addressed and most questions answered with at least 2 sentences about each. |
|All topics are addressed, and most questions answered with 1 sentence about each. |
|The information appears to be disorganized. |
|There is very little to no information listed. |
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|SOURCES |
|All sources (information and graphics) are accurately documented in the desired format. |
|All sources (information and graphics) are accurately documented, but a few are not in the desired format. |
|All sources (information and graphics) are accurately documented, but many are not in the desired format. |
|Some sources are not accurately documented. |
|Sources are not documented. |
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|MECHANICS |
|No grammatical, spelling, or punctuation errors. |
|Almost no grammatical, spelling, or punctuation errors. |
|A few grammatical, spelling, or punctuation errors. |
|Many grammatical, spelling, or punctuation errors. |
|More than 5 grammatical, spelling, or punctuation errors. |
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This rubric may be used for self-assessment and/or peer feedback. The project grade will be based upon the following evaluation scale found at: .
|Resume Rubric |
| |1 Point |2 Points |3 Points |4 Points |
|Criteria |Needs Improvement |Satisfactory |Good |Excellent |
|Introduction |Includes few of: |Includes some of: |Includes most of |Includes and is written with |
| |-why you are writing |-why you are writing |-why you are writing, |excellence: |
| |-position applying for |-position applying for |-position applying for |-why you are writing |
| |-proper salutation |-proper salutation |-proper salutation |-position applying for |
| | | | |-proper salutation |
|Main Body |Includes few of: |Includes some of: |Includes most of: |Includes and is written with |
| |-why you are interested |-why you are interested |-why you are interested |excellence: |
| |in position |-why they should hire you|-why they should hire you |-why you are interested |
| |-why they should hire you| |-Most of you qualifications |-why they should hire you |
| |-your qualifications are |-Some of your |are listed. |-all of your qualifications are listed |
| |not listed |qualifications are listed| | |
|Closing |Includes few of: |Includes some of: |Includes most of: |Includes and is written with |
| |-statement of |-statement of |-statement of appreciation |excellence: |
| |appreciation |appreciation |-request for meeting |-statement of appreciation |
| |-request for meeting |-request for meeting |-proper closing |-request for meeting |
| |-proper closing |-proper closing | |-proper closing |
|Conventions |-many spelling errors |-some spelling errors |-few spelling errors |-no errors |
|(Grammar/ |-few conventions are used|-most conventions are |-conventions are used |-all conventions used expertly |
|Spelling) |correctly |used correctly |correctly | |
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|Appearance |Paragraphs do not line|Paragraphs do not line up.|A minor mistake of lining up |Everything lined up; very neat and |
| |up, different fonts |Same fonts are used |margins and text; maybe margins |clean. |
| |used throughout. |throughout. Letter has |are off, but uses correct Blocked |Perfect Blocked Business Letter |
| |Letter does not have |some components of the |Business Letter Format |Format |
| |most of the Blocked |Blocked Business Letter. | | |
| |Business Letter Format| | | |
|Total |
| |1 Point |2 Points |3 Points |4 Points |
|Criteria |Needs Improvement |Satisfactory |Good |Excellent |
|Introduction |Includes few of: |Includes some of: |Includes most of |Includes and is written with |
| |*why you are writing |*why you are writing |*why you are writing, |excellence: |
| |*position applying for |*position applying for |*position applying for |* why you are writing |
| |*proper salutation |*proper salutation |-*proper salutation |*position applying for |
| | | | |*proper salutation |
|Main Body |Includes few of: |Includes some of: |Includes most of: |Includes and is written with |
| |*why you are interested in |*why you are interested |*why you are interested |excellence: |
| |position |*why they should hire you |*why they should hire you |*why you are interested |
| |*why they should hire you |*some of your |*most of you |*why they should hire you |
| |*your qualifications are not |qualifications are listed |qualifications are listed.|*all of your qualifications are listed|
| |listed | | | |
|Closing |Includes few of: |Includes some of: |Includes most of: |Includes and is written with |
| |* of appreciation |*statement of appreciation|*statement of appreciation|excellence: |
| |* for meeting | | |*statement of appreciation |
| |*proper closing |*request for meeting |*request for meeting |*request for meeting |
| | |*proper closing |*proper closing |* closing |
|Conventions |Includes: |Includes: |Includes: |Includes: |
|(Grammar/ |*many spelling errors |*some spelling errors |*few spelling errors |* errors |
|Spelling) |*few conventions are used |*most conventions are used|*conventions are used |*all conventions used expertly |
| |correctly |correctly |correctly | |
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|Appearance |Paragraphs do not line up. |Paragraphs do not line up.|A minor mistake of lining |Everything is lined up. Very neat and |
| |Different fonts are used |Same fonts are used |up margins and text, maybe|clean |
| |throughout. |throughout. Letter has |a few margins are off, but|Perfect Blocked Business Letter Format|
| |Letter does not have most of the |some of the components of |is in the correct Blocked |used. |
| |Blocked Business Letter Format. |the Blocked Business |Business Letter Format. | |
| | |Letter. | | |
|Totals | | | | |
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