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Careers
For many students, one of the hardest questions to answer is, "What
do you want to be when you grow up?" While some people seem to know
from early on exactly what career they want to pursue, others struggle
for direction.
By exploring a variety of different careers and by taking advantage of
some of the personality instruments currently available, students can
tighten the focus of their educational goals and objectives. Through career
exploration, they may find that elusive "perfect fit," or, perhaps,
they'll rule out at least one possibility. Either way, hopefully, their
efforts will prove worthwhile.
Places To Go | Things To Do | Teacher Resources | Bibliography
Places To Go
BLS
Career Information
Created by the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, this site tells about jobs
for kids who like the following subjects: Music/Arts, Science, P.E./Outdoors,
Social Studies, Reading, and Math.
Internet
Public Library: College and Career
This web site provides students with information about Applying for Jobs, Financial Aid, Guides to Careers, Guides to Colleges and Universities and Test Preparation.
America's Career
Info Net
Based on Bureau of Labor Statistics and state data, this site gives detailed
job growth and wage information for many occupations, broken down by state
and local area as well as descriptions of knowledge, skills, and abilities
needed for various jobs.
Introduction to Career Clusters
Helps students discover their interests and possible career choices based on those interests.
Career Finder
Students can select job categories and investigate specific career options.
Princeton Review Explore Careers
This site provides career profiles and a quiz to help students identify potential career paths.
Things To Do
Occupational Outlook
Handbook
Learn information about various careers by looking them up in The Occupational
Outlook Handbook, a nationally recognized source of career information,
designed to provide valuable assistance to individuals about their future
work lives. Revised every two years, the handbook describes what workers
do on the job, working conditions, the training and education needed,
earnings, and expected job prospects in a wide range of occupations.
College
Board’s Career Browser
To start exploring careers, pick a general career category from the list.
From there, you can browse specific jobs and learn about working conditions,
job forecasts, related professions, and what you can be doing right now
to reach your goals.
What
Will Be the 10 Hottest Jobs?
From Time Magazine’s “Visions of the Future” website,
check out this article that speculates about some of the jobs of the future.
The Fun Works: For Careers You Never Knew Existed
Students can take a quiz about their intersts and explore such career clusters as "Exploration", "Technology", or "Art and Design".
Could This Be Your Life?
This is an interactive game about life choices and careers.
Teacher Resources
Career
Research
In this activity, students can take tests that help them determine which
careers are best suited to their temperament, then access numerous sites
to help learn about various careers.
Jobs
for a Day
Student will conduct an interview and research information about a career
of their own interest.
To
Be or Not To Be
Using the writing process, the students will conduct an interview and
research information associated with the career of their choice.
Work
Cut Out For You: A Lesson on Career Choices
In this lesson, students will read about teenagers who have chosen to
forgo college for work. They will then begin to plan their own progression
toward their careers of choice by creating "fantasy résumés"
that list both their present accomplishments and things they hope to do
in the future.
When
I Grow Up, I Want To Be?
A career exploration webquest for eighth graders
Where
Will You Go From Here?
Another career exploration webquest for eighth graders.
What
Do You Want To Be?
Many children fantasize about what they want to be when they grow up.
In this lesson, asking students what they want to be when they grow up
is the starting point for learning about why adults work and why they
choose the jobs they do.
Bibliography
- Devenzio, Dick. Smart Moves : How to Succeed in School, Sports, Career,
and Life. Prometheus Books, 1989.
- Maynard, Christopher. Jobs People Do. DK Publishing, 2001.
- Judes, Marie-Odile et al. Max, the Stubborn Little Wolf. Harpercollins
Juvenile Books, 2001.
- Knowles, Sheena and Rod Clement. Edwina the Emu. HarperTrophy, 1997.
- Kottke, Jan. A Day With Firefighters. Children's Press, 2000.
- Maynard, Thane and Jane Goodall. Working With Wildlife : A Guide to
Careers in the Animal World. Franklin Watts, Incorporated, 2000.
- Park, Barbara and Denise Brunkus. Junie B. Jones and Her Big Fat Random
House, 1993.
- Park, Barbara and Denise Brunkus. Junie B. Jones Is a Beauty Shop
Guy. Random House, 1998.
- Pasternak, Ceel and Linda Thornburg. Cool Careers for Girls With Animals
(Cool Careers for Girls Series). Impact Pubns., 1999.
- Pasternak, Ceel, and Linda Thornburg. Cool Careers for Girls in Computers
(Cool Careers for Girls Series). Impact Pubns., 1999.
- Young Person's Occupational Outlook Handbook. Jist Works, 2001.
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