Exploring Standards-Based Lesson Plans

One of the lessons plans I found from the Ohio Department of Education site is called “Making a Career Choice”. This lesson plan is based on career assessments of the students, as well as their knowledge and abilities. The students range from grades 9-12. They are expected to choose an occupation  on the bias of Self-awareness and goal-setting . When they choose the topic, they are required to use the OhioMeansJobsK-12 and look up that specific occupation with the following considerations in mind; Interest areas, work setting, employer’s hiring practices, number of people employed (by area or state), wages, outlook, skills required, education required, courses in high school that are needed and knowledge.

The Common Core standards aligned to this lesson is English Language Arts and it is designed to meet the following objectives; Vocabulary , Reading Process, Reading Application, Non–fiction, Writing Process:, Use variety of strategies to revise content and organization; prepare writing for publication, Writing Application, Research, Formulate open-ended questions for investigation; evaluate usefulness of data; communicate findings and Communications. There are many ways to facilitate these objectives, some of which include having a class meeting to discuss the research found on the  web site, create a word wall of all the words that pertains to certain occupations, and write a journal pertaining to the findings of the career choice.

This lesson will be implemented by activating the student’s prior knowledge of careers they know about personally by either from their parents, grandparents and or other members of their families. The lesson will be introduced via a video to catch their attention and then the handouts will be passed around to facilitate the lesson , along with the worksheet.

For my inclusion practices , I would “1)Provide cue sheet with computer procedures.

2) Provide assistance in identifying the ten considerations of the occupation being researched.

3) Instead of a chart, have students make a presentation board that includes illustrations and a transcript of the courses the student took in school".

My lesson plan can be found at the following link

http://education.ohio.gov/Topics/Career-Tech/Career-Connections/Lesson-Plans?searchtext=Making+career+choices&searchmode=anyword&subjectsearchfilter=0&gradessearchfilter=0

The online site OhioMeansJobsK-12





The Worksheet associated with the Lesson Plans 

Key Topics  associated with the Lesson Plan