11/3/14
Architecture design activity
11/4/14
Guest Speaker from Texas Parks and Wildlife
11/5/14
Research careers in Architecture & Construction.
11/6/14
Research careers in Audio Video Technology
Thursday, October 30, 2014
October 27-31
10/27/14
Introduce Business & Industry -
Develop questions for the guest speaker
10/28/14
Guest speaker - Cheyenne Martinez from Toyota
10/29/14
- Pick a career in business or industry. If you have problems thinking of something, look at some suggestions I have listed below.
- Create a Google Presentation with a minimum of 5 slides that describe this career.
Presentation Requirements:
- Slide 1: Career Title with picture of someone doing this job
- Slide 2: Describe what this person does (include at least 2 pictures)
- Slide 3: Provide education requirements (are there certain schools that specialize in this field….example: Texas A&M - Vet School) Include pictures of the school
- Slide 4: Provide salary range information either in a graph or data table
- Slide 5: A collage of pictures of people doing this job (at least 6 pictures)
Suggestions:
Accountant
Market Research Analyst
Operations Research Analyst
Financial Advisory
Business Operations Manager
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Audit Clerk
Marketing Manager
Financial Manager
Event Planner
Compliance Officer
Bill Collector
Insurance Agent
Real Estate Agent
Financial Analyst
HR Specialist
Sales Manager
Logistician
Administrative Assistant
Customer Service Representative
Loan Officer
10/30/14
Complete the Google Presentation - be prepared to share with the class.
10/31/14 HALLOWEEN!!!
Presenting Slide Show
***Homework: measure one room in your house and all the furniture in it, you will need know the measurements in order to create a floor plan of the room on Monday.
Thursday, October 16, 2014
October 20-24
10/20/14
Complete the Robotic hand
10/21/14
Investigate careers in mathematics.
10/22/14
Guest speaker for Math
10/23/14
Choose a career in mathematics, research the salary, educational/experience needed and job employment opportunities (numbers), you will teach (share you statistics) with 2 other students about you career and they will share theirs with you.
PGP for STEM
Thursday, October 9, 2014
October 14-17
10/14/14
Intro to the Stem Endorsement in the Engineering Pathway.
Research the different type of Engineering careers. Find one career that requires a high school diploma, one that requires some college (such as an associates degree), one that has requires a Bachelor’s degree, certification requirements, salary, etc. Fill out the Careers Research Template (online).
10/15/14
Robotic Hand construction - complete construction and then add information related to a specific engineering field.
10/16/14
Complete robotic construction with description .
Film yourself using the robotic hand and describing the engineering career of your choice. Upload and share this video on the online portfolio
10/17/14
Guest speaker - a robotics engineer.
October 6 - 10
Day 5 - 10/6/14
Complete electronic Flyer/Advertisement for job posting and upload to online portfolio
Day 6 - 10/7/14
Guest Speaker from MD Anderson - David Mitchell
Day 7 - 10/8/14
Brainstorming/ Researching/ Discussing Technology Pathway in STEM endorsement
Day 8 - 10/9/14
Day 9 - 10/10/14
Guest speaker for technology- video game designer/ IT computer guy/ computer programmer/ Apple Genius Bar Tech
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
September 29 - October 3
Day 1 - 9-30-14
After the students finished their Arts & Humanities PGP I had them do the following on a google class assignment
Create a document for your answers.
1. Describe what S.T.E.M. means.
2. Research jobs in the S.T.E.M. field. Find a profession for each of the letters. S - Science T - Technology E - Engineering M - Mathematics.
3. Describe each of these jobs.
Your assignment should look something like this:
S.T.E.M.
What S.T.E.M. means...
S-Science - job name - description
T-
E-
M-
Day 2 - 10/1/14
Introduction to the STEM Endorsement
What is STEM?
Science Careers, Engineering careers, robotics pathway, Technology careers, Mathematics careers
Day 3 - 10/2/14
Students will read and answer questions about Ten Traits of a Valuable Employee
Day 4 - 10/3/14
Use sites given by teachers research current job postings in science and create an flyer/advertisement for the job posting
Thursday, September 18, 2014
September 22 - 26
9/22/14
- Research Careers in the Fine Arts using MyDestiny and Achieve Texas website.
- Be assigned one pathway from the following in the fine arts endorsement:
art, band, choir/piano, dance, theater - within that pathway do research to find different careers
- pick one of the careers within the pathway and research the education requirements, certifications, experience and salary for this career.
9/23/14
- After the research is done, students will find the other student in class that is researching the same pathway. Together students will create a poster with the information from their research.
- Poster requirements
- Title of Pathway
- Name of career(s) being displayed in poster
- An illustration of the career(s)
- Salary of these careers
- Education, certification requirements
9/24/14
- Poster gallery walk.
- Students will walk around looking at the other student’s posters
- Students will answer the questions provided by the teacher using the posters for answers
9/25/14
Guest Speaker for journalism pathways - someone from a newspaper/tv station/politician
9/26/14
- Students will pick their favorite career in Social Studies or Journalism to create a project. The project can be a newspaper article (with picture/photograph), filmed newscast, recorded news report (radio version of the news), or a speech. All of these will be presented to the class.
Week 4 - Sept 15 - 19
9/15/14
Create wanted poster, job posting/advertisement, prezi, or promotional video for a career of your choice that falls under the Public Service Endorsement, within either the Health Science Pathway or the NJROTC Pathway.
9/16/14
Present poster, job posting/advertisement, prezi, or promotional video
9/17/14
PGP in Public Services Endorsement
9/18/14
Use Achieve Texas and C2C to look up career options in Arts and Humanities Endorsement
Wrap up classes by brainstorming and sharing all potential career options
9/19/14
Guest speaker
Monday, September 8, 2014
Week 3 - Sept 8 - 12
9/9/14
Research career opportunities that fall under the Public Service Endorsement.
9/9/14
GUEST SPEAKER *Rick Snell - Acadian EMT Service
9/10/14
Finish our research from Monday's assignment.
Brainstorm and discuss careers in the NJROTC Pathways: Army, Marines, Navy, Air Force, Law enforcement
9/11/14
NJROTC officer guest speaker - Chief David Canales
9/12/14
Research:
Find 3 careers in the NJROTC pathway, each career should require a different level of education, include information about the average income and the availability of jobs for that career,
Wanted poster or job posting/advertisement, prezi, video
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Week 2 - Sept 2-5
Day 6 - 9/2/14
Log in to www.mydestinybisd.org
- Note any alerts, announcements, events, and Twitter updates.
- Click on the Settings link in the top right
- Complete the fields under the Parents section for one or both parents. Click Submit
- From MyDestiny Home Page click Career Discovery on left tab bar. Search parent’s occupation titles.
- If you do not know your parent’s occupation, then continue researching more ranked occupation on the Career Discovery matches page.
Day 7 - 9/3/14
Digital citizenship Google Doc assignment
Create Glogster digital poster
- will need to create account and learn to use
- research what makes a responsible digital citizen
- create poster
- send/save
Day 8 - 9/4/14
- Glogster digital poster-day 2
- Present Glogster
Day 9 - 9/5/14
- Warm up: read World of Work livebinder poster and answer questions
- share Ah-Ha info
Discuss Public Service Endorsement -- Brainstorm some jobs you think would be considered Public Service
Log into Achieve Texas -- Live Binders
- World of Work - Labor Market Information Center
Research information on 3 different types of jobs.Find out the following for each job:- level of education
- any certification required
- salary
- job availability in Texas
Sunday, August 24, 2014
Week 1
Day 1 - 8/25/14
IntroductionsStudent info form w/parent email & phone number
*BISD prezi on Career Portals
Class procedures
Remind 101
Day 2 - 8/26/14
Inspirational video:Create your avatar
Expectations (equipment, care, headphones, personal earbuds)
Day 3 - 8/27/14
Skills: What employers/colleges wantSoft Skills/Hard Skills
Team building activity
Day 4 - 8/28/14
Graduation endorsements/plans, why are you here? Flowchart to explain PGPsGo to Achieve Texas website and learn about 16 career clusters
Personality Assessment
Day 5 - 8/29/14
Log on to Campus2CareersActivity 1: Create profiles (can login on phones and upload pic)
Activity 2: career Interest survey and gather info on top 3 suggested careers
HOMEWORK: Parent Interview - due next class period (after 3 day weekend)
Monday, August 11, 2014
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