What do you want to be when you grow up? Kids are frequently asked this question.

Journeys to Jobs emphasizes the importance of interests and abilities while making career decisions. These interests and abilities often change as children grow into adults. This informative and exciting program includes:

Original Story: A story of 12 children and how their hobbies and interests influenced their final job choices. Each of the character’s interests includes pertinent information about each career associated with that interest.

Career Clusters: Each career is related to a cluster.

ASCA Standards

Lesson Plans: The four lesson plans may be taught as independent lessons or as a career-awareness unit. The first lesson utilizes the story, while the remaining lessons emphasize decision-making, the comparison between a student of the month and an employee of the month, and homework being one part of a student’s job.

Motivating Activities And Reproducible Activity Sheets: Used independently or as the story is read, Journeys To Jobs includes fun activities and reproducible activity sheets for each career included in the story. In addition, there are extra supplementary career-oriented activity sheets and interest inventory activity sheets.

Journeys to Jobs will re-energize your career program with variety, current information, and motivating experiences. The included CD features PDF files of the reproducible pages. PC/Mac.

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TOPIC: Careers

INCLUDES: CD with printable PDFs of reproducible pages PC/Mac compatible

AUTHOR: Debra Wosnik

GRADE LEVELS: 3-6 /AGES 9-12

RECOMMENDED FOR: Small Group Counseling, Classroom Counseling

8.375 X 10.875, 160 PAGES, PAPERBACK, © 2010, CD

ASCA STANDARDS FOR JOURNEYS TO JOBS

ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT

 

Standard A: Students will acquire the attitudes, knowledge and skills that contribute to effective learning in school and across the life span.

• A:A3 Achieve School Success
• A:A3.3 Develop a broad range of interests and abilities

Standard B: Students will complete school with the academic preparation essential to choose from a wide range of substantial post- secondary options, including college.

• A:B1 Improve Learning
• A:B1.4 Seek information and support from faculty, staff, family and peers

Standard C: Students will understand the relationship of academics to the world of work and to life at home and in the community.

• A:C1 Relate School To Life Experiences
• A:C1.1 Demonstrate the ability to balance school, studies, extracurricular activities, leisure time and family life
• A:C1.2 Seek co-curricular and community experiences to enhance the school experience
• A:C1.3 Understand the relationship between learning and work
• A:C1.4 Demonstrate an understanding of the value of lifelong learning as essential to seeking, obtaining and maintaining life goals
• A:C1.5 Understand that school success is the preparation to make the transition from student to community member
• A:C1.6 Understand how school success and academic achievement enhance future career and vocational opportunities

CAREER DEVELOPMENT

 

Standard A: Students will acquire the skills to investigate the world of work in relation to knowledge of self and to make informed career decisions.

• C:A1 Develop Career Awareness
• C:A1.1 Develop skills to locate, evaluate and interpret career information
• C:A1.2 Learn about the variety of traditional and nontraditional occupations
• C:A1.3 Develop an awareness of personal abilities, skills, interests and motivations
• C:A1.4 Learn how to interact and work cooperatively in teams
• C:A1.5 Learn to make decisions
• C:A1.6 Learn how to set goals
• C:A1.7 Understand the importance of planning
• C:A1.8 Pursue and develop competency in areas of interest
• C:A1.9 Develop hobbies and vocational interests
• C:A1.10 Balance between work and leisure time

Standard B:     Students will employ strategies to achieve future career goals with success and satisfaction.

• C:B1 Acquire Career Information
• C:B1.1 Apply decision-making skills to career planning, course selection and career transition
• C:B1.2 Identify personal skills, interests and abilities and relate them to current career choice
• C:B1.3 Demonstrate knowledge of the career-planning process
• C:B1.4 Know the various ways in which occupations can be classified
• C:B1.5 Use research and information resources to obtain career information
• C:B1.6 Learn to use the Internet to access career-planning information
• C:B1.7 Describe traditional and nontraditional career choices and how they relate to career choice
• C:B1.8 Understand how changing economic and societal needs influence employment trends and future training

• C:B2 Identify Career Goals
• C:B2.1 Demonstrate awareness of the education and training needed to achieve career goals
• C:B2.2 Assess and modify their educational plan to support career
• C:B2.3 Use employability and job readiness skills in internship, mentoring, shadowing and/or other work experience
• C:B2.4 Select course work that is related to career interests
• C:B2.5 Maintain a career-planning portfolio

Standard C: Students will understand the relationship between personal qualities, education, training and the world of work.

• C:C1 Acquire Knowledge to Achieve Career Goals
• C:C1.1 Understand the relationship between educational achievement and career success
• C:C1.2 Explain how work can help to achieve personal success and satisfaction
• C:C1.3 Identify personal preferences and interests influencing career choice and success
• C:C1.4 Understand that the changing workplace requires lifelong learning and acquiring new skills
• C:C1.5 Describe the effect of work on lifestyle
• C:C1.6 Understand the importance of equity and access in career choice
• C:C1.7 Understand that work is an important and satisfying means of personal expression

 

 

ASCA standards from: American School Counselor Association (2004). ASCA National Standards for Students. Alexandria, VA: © 2004 by the American School Counselor Association.