8th Grade ACP
8th Grade Learning Targets
8th Grade Learning Targets
- I can become familiar with Xello’s website.
- I can understand why the Academic Career Plan is important for planning my future in school and post secondary.
- I can make SMART goals that are related to academic and personal goals
- I can understand graduation requirements.
- I can understand a transcript and what it means to be college and career ready.
- I can review the high school course hand book and make a four year course plan to be successful for my future career interest.
- I can explain how my hobbies, soft skills, extra curricular, and work ethic relate to a specific career.
Essential Questions:
Essential Questions:
- What type of high school courses do I want to take? What am I interested in, and what do I need to take to help me get to my future career?
- What do I like to do in my free time?
- What has my middle school academics and work ethic taught me so far, do I feel like I am ready for high school?
- Have my interests changed since last year, if so how?
- What are my strengths?
This year I will…
This year I will…
- Complete Matchmaker and save results
- Explore career profiles: job descriptions, working conditions, earning, educations, and sample career paths sections.
- I will explore career profiles and learn about their job descriptions, schooling needed, and create a sample career path.
- I will save one artifact with a reflection in my ACP folder.
- I will write about a career of interest in detail and present it to the class.