Academic and Career Planning

Students will be able to:

Understand and apply the following terms related to career choice and AWATO assessments:

• career

• job

• salary

• inclinations

• values

Read and recall informational text from AWATO (results from Interests, Values, and Inclinations assessments)

Identify potential careers based on AWATO assessment results.

Activity

Identify and define the following terms: career, job, salary, inclinations, values.

Resources

Teach terms directly or have students research them.

Show AWATO and the three assessments they will complete.

Task

Worksheet using the terms in self-reflective statements (i.e. My values show what I care about.)

Complete the Interests, Inclinations, and Values assessments in AWATO

Activity

Read through the results of the AWATO assessments.

Identify the results for the following:

Interests/Holland Code

Inclinations

Values

Record individual results.

Resources

Provide a worksheet (paper or electronic) to record data from assessments (could also have students keep a journal for reflection purposes throughout the project).

Task

Exit slip question (i.e. what is your Holland Code?)

What is one of your Inclinations?

What is one of your Values?

Activity

Review career matches based on AWATO’s assessments results by clicking “Explore” in the platform.

Record the top 10 matches (careers marked with 3, 4, and 5 stars).

Completed worksheet

Activity

Out of the top 10 career matches, select your favorite 3 or 4.

Read the description of your favorite matches by clicking “Details” on each career card.

Write one reason why you are interested in each career choice.

Task

Google Form to capture each student’s top 3-4 career choices and why they are interested in each.

Describe the relationship between you (interests/Holland Code, values, inclinations) and your career choices.

Identify one career to research in depth.

Activity

Using the previously recorded data and AWATO, read through the results of the Interests, Inclinations, and Values assessments again.

Reflect and think critically about the results by answering the following questions:

• What part(s) of your Holland Code stand out as true to you?

• What Inclinations stand out as true to you?

• What Values stand out as true to you?

• What results were a surprise to you?

Resources

Offer students the opportunity to do interviews with one another answering questions about their results.

Task

Exit activity - Have students share one answer or new piece information they learned from their partner.

Activity

Review favorite 3 or 4 career matches.

Read the description of each by clicking “Details” on each career card.

Activity

Reflect on your matches by answering the following:

• How does each career relate to your interests/Holland Code?

• How does each career relate to your values?

• How does each relate to your aspirations?

Resources

Worksheet or journal to record answers.

Task

Exit slip question - What career do you think you are most interested in?

Research your selected job to understand what it entails and determine reasons to support your career goal.

• Use AWATO and O*Net, the Department of Labor’s database of occupations.

Describe core components of career and align to personal values, inclinations and aspirations.

Activity

Navigate to your selected career choice in Awato and click “Details” to answer the following questions:

• What industry does the occupation belong to?

• What is the average salary?

• What actions does the occupation require?

• What is a day in the life of the occupation like?

• What is the work environment like?

• What skills are required?

Resources

Worksheet or journal to record answers.

Task

Exit activity - Have blank space on easel paper or white board for students to write which career they are researching.

Students will be able to see the diversity of skills in their class and envision each others’ futures.

Activity

Create a concept map/web. For each branch, put the facts you discovered on Awato about yourself.

Activity

Investigate the occupation in a deeper, more meaningful way by reading through the job’s summary report on O*Net.

This requires inputting the career title in the search function on the website.

Record 5 facts about the career you found on O*Net that did not come up on Awato.

Task

Exit slip - What is one new fact you learned on O*Net?

Activity

Add the 5 new facts from O*Net to your concept map.

Activity

Review your strengths, inclinations, and values from Awato and add them to your concept map.

Looking at your completed concept map/web, answer verbal questions with a partner about what you notice: how do the habits of work required for the career align with your values, strengths, and inclinations?

Resources

Pair or group students to share their concept maps.

Task

Google Form to capture how one habit of work in the student’s selected career aligns with one of their strengths/values/inclinations.

Design and present a poster, PowerPoint, or Prezi with researched career facts (tasks, salary, education required, etc.) as well as personal values, strengths, and inclinations that go along with the career.

Generate questions and interview a student partner about their researched career.

Create a vision board or vision video about the career and why it is a good fit for you.

Write a reflection about how the selected career matches interests, values, and inclinations.

Activity

Decide what kind of creation/project you would like to complete to showcase your research and conclusions to the class.

Options:

• Design a poster, PowerPoint, or Prezi with researched career facts (tasks, salary, education required, etc.) as well as personal values, strengths, and inclinations that go along with the career.

• Create a vision board or vision video about the career and and why it is a good fit for you

• Write a reflection about how the selected career matches interests, values, and inclinations.

Brainstorm what materials you will need to complete your creation.

Resources

Allow for multiple class periods to complete projects.