Career Management 9/3/13 3 rd Block Question of the day How can the choice of a particular career affect your lifestyle?

Review of last week What did we learn? Abilities: Natural or acquired skill or talent. Skill: Proficiency or ability. Talent/Aptitudes: Developed abilities; those things that one is good at doing; potential for leaning skills. Values: Cherished ideas and beliefs that affect decisions a person makes. Interests: Activities, things, and ideas a person likes and enjoys. Self-concept: How people view their own skills, interests, and competence level Hobby: A pursuit or interest engaged in for relaxation. Dexterity: Proficiency in using the body or hands. Career: An occupation or profession followed as a life’s work.

You gain exposure to the workplace through: Job Shadowing Field Trips Guest Speakers Work-based learning programs

Why it pays to work hard

Group Activity We are now in the second week of school, lets get to know some our classmates with this next activity. Directions: Take a slice of paper and list all of the things about you that make you unique. Be creative and colorful Take 15 minutes Where time is up find a classmate that has one of the same things listed and tape you slice together. Continue until you have a whole pie. Have a person from your group explain how the pie came together.

Class work Using the School to Work book go to Chapter 12 page and define the following words. Write to word with a definition. 1.Self-concept 2.Self-esteem 3.Self-assessment 4.Habit 5.Ethics 6.Short-term Goal 7.Long-term Goal 8.Standards 9.Resources

Ticket out the Door I am your constant companion. I am your greatest helper or heaviest burden. I push you onward, or drag you down to failure I am completely at your command. Half the things you do might as well be turned over to me. I will do them quickly and correctly. I am easily managed. You must be firm with me. Show me what you want to be done, and after a few lessons, I will do it automatically. I am the servant of all great people. The burden of all failures as well. Those who are great, I have made great. Those who are failures, I have made a failure. I am not a machine, though I work with the precision of a machine and the intelligence of a person. Run me for profit or run me for ruin. Take me, train me, be firm with me, and I will place the world at your feet. Be easy with me, and I will destroy you. Who am I? Who am I