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Are you looking for career exploration activities to allow your students to explore their options? With eDynamic Learning’s free 1 day Career Explorations Activity Kit, you can help students identify careers that tie to their skills and interest and help them align more closely with the courses they take in school, or before they apply for a CTE Academy. You can implement this kit in a single class, a whole grade level, or even your entire school.

Your Free Career Exploration Kit includes: • Career Exploration Teacher Guide • Parent Letter • Student Interest Survey • Podcast Video Professions Lesson • Podcasts and Videos from professionals • Profession Profile Project Lesson • Career Bingo • Post Student Survey

Middle School and High

We’re excited to announce a new

School Career Exploration

Career Explorations!

Guide

Career Exploration Teacher

experience for students:

Career Exploration and High School Podcasts & Video Spotlights: Career Evaluation Middle School Professional Spotlights

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• Have students select the career they are most drawn to based yourhave already done. getthey on need the to work Introduction• give you everything you to If time permits, allow Kit is designed to divetodeeper into career the opportunity exploration students using the Profession Profile Project Career Exploration students give lesson template. journey. This comprehensive kit will eDynamic Learning’s 1-day assets to explore career exploration with their skill sets, access align • Have studentsand students started on their that present to the class. identified Students pathways can share the career or their pathway they identified with most, identify careers register for that align with survey their interests, an overview they should of what acourses offer professional in that field does, want to what they mayabout youliked that career, and why they gain insight into future and pathways courses select identified careers, and feel their skilltoset school would a good yourbe match for the profession. insight help Have students create their own short-style video using the research pathways. It will also•provide they have done and describe what students in the future. they like most and least about their favorite career option.

We have partnered with eDynamic Learning, the leading provider of CTE and elective courses in North America, to provide students with a day of Career Explorations! Career Explorations is an opportunity for students to survey their interests, identify careers and pathways that align with their skill sets, listen to professionals in various industries discuss their careers including likes and dislikes, and gain insight into future courses they should register for that match with their identified pathways. It will also help us, as a school, decide which courses and pathways we need to add to the curriculum so we can support our students’ trajectories and interests.

and Implementation Options of implementation scenarios Helpful Tips designed to meet a variety Kit was flexibly This Career Explorations • Have your supplies on hand. Prior to starting your career exploration activities, print off copies of the organizational formats. lessons and bingo sheet to have on hand. entire school grade level, wholeaccess. as a Station-Rotation • Check your device activity, Make sure all students Classroom will have access to a device - phone, tablet, or • Audience: Single classroom, assignment, as a Flipped a homework computerwhether they’re completing their career exploration at home or at school. The project • Delivery: in-class work, can be whole-class synchronous as bell work one of these devices ison completed career or topathway, the student. experience, broken out as long as or groups based available pairs Ifsmall • Check student work,access. your students will be conducting their career exploration in school, • Organization: individual make sure students can access the Career Compass webpage on event broken into focused tasks or the eDynamic Learning website from the device exploration as a 1-day career explorations entirety they will be in its using. Sometimes web security at schools can be high and prevent access to websites • Timeframe: Completed that are not throughout a week whitelisted. Start • Make a plan for audio if students will be participating share some observations. in thetocareer exploration activitiesbe of professionals, ask them during the listen to a variety toparticipating on the website. This can school time day. If featured as a whole class, be sure the podcast and video audio can be heard through After you’ve given students a variety of professions more about can learn your speakers. If students will be participating individually, make sure students have access to the dialog so other students partners. as or headphones. in small groups, done as a whole class,

Outcomes

from this experience? • New insights into likes, dislikes, and skill sets! Students will have an opportunity to explore a variety of career field by listening to professional in their careers; including what they like and dislike • Help students to narrow their focus on career pathways • Find careers that align with student interests and skills • Have fun while seeing career possibilities • Help schools to determine appropriate CTE pathways for the students as they enter high school

opportunity Students will have an they like and dislike careers and the things their focus on career pathways Help student to narrow skills enter high school. with their interest and Find careers that align for the students as they appropriate CTE pathways Help schools to determine

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Career Exploration Kit

Outcomes

will: you implement, students Career Clusters® No matter which method Career Evaluation featured in the National of professionals Pros • Hear from a variety how to evaluate careers about their future and • Begin thinking Career Title previously they were unaware of careers • Learn about a career necessary from various Cons what requirements are • DiscoverCareer Clustercons to a variety of careers • Learn the pros and

We are so excited to provide students with this unique opportunity to discover potential pathways for their futures, and we hope you are, too!

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Assignment Suggestions

Tools note taking. worksheet or paper for compass-corner/ tablet, or phone, headphones, Computer, Chromebook, https://edynamiclearning.com/careerthe following website: must be able to access Students After listening to the various professionals explain their careers, how will you evaluate future job descriptions to determine they might be something you are interested in or not? Aremore one specific career Extensionif Activities job requirements on learning thereabout you will be looking for to either avoid or that students can dive deeper and focus interest you? After completing this project, Project template. our Profession Profile option through leveraging year-long Career Exploration a variety of semester and eDynamic Learning offers Course Catalog. In addition to these resources, Learn more through our students. school high and courses for both middle

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for note taking. Tools pen, worksheet or paper tablet, or phone, headphones, arning.com/career-compassComputer, Chromebook, website: https://edynamicle to access the following Students must be able corner/ Copyright© 2022 by eDynamic Learning,

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Career Exploration Teacher Guide

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Why or why not? change about the job? podcast, did your view • After listening to the you or not? surprised to discover? if they are a right fit for • What were you most descriptions to determine future Wasyou there a career evaluate that job first interested you but now does not? Why? • How will

If you have any questions, or if you would like more information, please do not hesitate to contact us at [enter phone number] or email us at [enter email address].

• Parent Letter • Student Interest Survey Lesson • Podcast Video Professions from professionals • Podcasts and Videos Project Lesson • Profession Profile • Career Bingo • Post Student Survey

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What will students walk away with

to professional in their

career field by listening to explore a variety of

Sometimes listening to real-life people talk about their careers helps us to determine if it sounds like an occupation we might want to explore further. Visit the webpage listed professionals below, then listen to various career Introduction from hearing from real find inspiration andpage podcasts and videos found careers on that to answer the following more about the questions. quickly learn an opportunity to explore Provide your students https://edynamiclearning.com/career-compass-corner/ This activity can help students may or may not like about audio podcasts or videos. what they through short, 2-minute their focus by learning the requirements needed, and help them narrow the tools they use daily, job’s day-to-day activities the job responsibilities, learn willlist Studentsand the careers that sound job. to you. Rank them in order of preference to find your interesting that profession. Identify top two. mostinand least about their Place the titlelike of each the below sections, along with the name of the career cluster the and what these professionals podcast was found to under. In the “+” row, list aspects that you like, and in the “–” row, students list aspectsand thatask you worksheet, don’t like. Project Description along with the attached like them to listen to based web URL to your students, how many you would Provide the Career Compass and/or videos. You decide 2-3 minutes in length.) podcasts of approximately number lasts select a listen to each podcast/video to the podcasts this activity. (Please note, work individually to listen on the time available for phone, have students Chromebook, or their the worksheet. Using a computer, tablet, they are hearing using notes about the professionals use and/or videos and take can assign this for homework, set of implementations. You and allows for a variety you can use this in a station-rotation This project is quite flexible just a few professionals), to listen them (having this as a bell work activity activity. Start up, or as a whole classCareer Evaluation Pros to share some observations. of professionals, ask them This can be time to listen to a variety Career Title featured on the website. After you’ve given students a variety of professions can learn more about the dialog so other students or as partners. Cons class, in small groups, done as a whole Career Cluster

Dear Parents and Guardians, We know it’s never too early to get students thinking about their futures, and we have an exciting new opportunity to do just that! On [enter date], [enter school’s name] will be offering a day of discovery for students: Career Explorations!

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Podcast Video Professions Lesson

Parent Letter

Career Compass: Profession Profile Project

Navigating career options to direct your education journey.

Career Exploration Post Student

Career Compass: Profession Identified Companies Profile Project Project Profile career Navigating Profession optionsCompa Career Visit aCompass: to three job posting site (such direct as Monster.com or Indeed.com) and your companies Career education identify at least journey. different journey. that are looking for this career. ss: Profes to direct your education Navigati sion Navigating career options ng career options Use the following career Requirements a careerProfile Project Company Name & Location around Salary to direct informationwebsites keyexploration Name

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you enjoyed learning, exploring, and Career Exploration activity! We hope Thank you for participating in the so we can learn more about the career careers! Please fill out the survey connecting skills with possible future your future. pathways you are considering for

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pursue? Circle of which career you might like to

before the 4. Is the career field you were considering Something else or Circle The same you 5. Which three (3) career areas are

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high school? Please circle below:

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A professional that enjoys lots of travel.

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A career that allows a good work/life balance.

A career that allows you to help others navigate their lives.

A career that allows you to work from home.

A career that helps other people look pretty.

A career that entails creating and testing video games.

A professional who gets paid to create online content for brands.

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