March ACP

Today's Focus: Budgeting for My Future! (Teacher Reads Aloud)

So far, we have focused on selecting careers based upon interests, skills, career demand, and more.
Realistically, we are encouraged to consider how career options affect our lifestyle preferences.
In other words, can my future career ideas financially support the type of lifestyle I would like to have?
Today, we will explore your lifestyle preferences...and also check out careers that afford this lifestyle!

Reality Check Activity

Please direct all students to the Reality Check Online Activity
To begin this activity, students should click Select My Expenses (orange icon).
Students will begin answering questions that measure their future lifestyle preferences! (housing, food, transportation, etc).
As students work through this budget activity, notice their monthly total expenses in green along the top of the screen.
After answering all the questions in this Reality Check activity, students will receive of a summary of their monthly expenses.
Then, please direct students to select View Careers That Will Cover These Expenses.

Results: Careers that Support My Lifestyle

Students will see a diagram that shows several career fields that can fit with their selected lifestyle.
Please guide students to click a career field of interest.
Now, a list of careers within this career field will be generated.
After clicking a specific career, students will see annual salary and monthly salary from this career.
Students need to then click on the title of the career, which will get them a one page snapshot of this career.

This one page snapshot includes a video, knowledge, skills, abilities, personality, technology, education, outlook, and more.
Encourage students to explore several careers! Then ask students to share a career that they researched.