middle school career education nbea 2009 convention in chicago

Middle School BE Courses:

Career Education is

Moving on Down!

Melanie B. Wiscount

Instructor & University BE Student Teacher Supervisor

Business Education & Business Information Systems Department

College of Business

Bloomsburg University of PA

National Business Education Association

2009 Annual Convention

Chicago, IL

What do you want to be when

you grow up?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ciNtPp_Ttw&feature=related User: aaronfessler

Generation C

• Creators

• Content

• Collaborators

• Community

• Culture

• Concurrent

• Connected

• Communicators

Derek Wenmoth, Director, eLearning, CORE Education Ltd, NEW ZEALAND; Derek’s Blog-

http://blog.core-ed.net/derek/

“Sony 035” ~ photo on www.flickr.com by user bunnyronin

How We Learn

10% of what we READ

20% of what we HEAR

30% of what we SEE

50% of what we SEE and HEAR

70% of what is DISCUSSED with OTHERS

80% of what is EXPERIENCED PERSONALLY

95% of what we TEACH TO SOMEONE ELSE William Glasser

“Jacob” ~ photo from www.flickr.com ~ by user kakacakes

Our Students Need to Be:

critical thinkers

problem solvers

innovators

effective communicators

effective collaborators

information and media literate

globally aware

civically engaged

financially and economically literate

Preparing Students for Jobs That Do Not Exist, Chris Pearson, August 16, 2007

http://squeakymouse.wordpress.com/2007/08/16/preparing-students-for-jobs-that-do-not-exist/

“Peace” - Photo from flickr.com ~by truonggiangk3a

Session Objective

Career Planning

Rich

Interactive

Meaningful

Relevant

Session Objective

Career Planning

Active Learning

Collaboration

21st Century

Skills

Learning with Technology

21st Century Learning

• Digital Age Literacy

• Inventive Thinking

• Effective Communication

• High Productivity

21st Century Learning

http://www.ncrel.org/engauge/skills/agelit.htm

= Soft

Skills

My Background

• Twenty plus years in business workplace

• Taught the following levels:

• Middle School

• High School

• Community College

• Higher Education

Something to Think About…

“It has been said that in the 1950s, 2

people were competing for the same

job. In the year 2005, 52 people were

competing for the same job.”

http://www.helium.com/items/458547-top-10-careers-in-the-21st-century

The Need for this Session:

• Present choices & opportunities

• Better workers

• Success for our students’ futures

• Happiness in our students’ futures

• Expense

• Time

• Self-development – Life-long Learner

• Develop leaders - Managers

This Session Will UnCover…

• Career planning

• Workplace expectations

• Character education

• Developing 21st century skills

At the middle level (also can be used at high school level)

Using:

• Student Choice

• Student Creativity & Design

• Technology – Web 2.0 tools

• Peer Collaboration

Careers in 1950’s

• Bowling pin setter

• File clerk

• Typing pool typist

• Service station attendant

• Factory worker

• Average Salary: $2,992

• Labor Force male/female: 5/2

http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade50.html

Top Ten Careers in 1960’s

• Average Salary $4,743

• Teacher's Salary $5,174

• Minimum Wage $1.00

• Population 177,830,000

• Unemployment 3,852,000



• National Debt: $382 billion

• Average salary: $7,564

• Population: 204,879,000

• Unemployed in 1970: 4,088,000



• Average salary: $15,757

Minimum Wage: $3.10



• Average Salary: $13.37/hr (1999)

• Teacher's Salary: $39,347 (1998)

• Minimum Wage: $5.

• Population: 281,421,906 (2000 Census)

• Unemployment: 5.8 million, or 4.2% (Sept 99)


Top Careers

for 2009

http://www.usnews.com/sections/

business/best-careers/

Green Jobs

Aristes, Pennsylvania

Green Jobs

http://www.greencareersguide.com

Green Jobs

http://www.greencareercentral.com/

Top Ten Careers in the New

Millennium

http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2001/dec/wk1/art02.htm

Careers that Don’t Yet Exist…but will

• Robot detachment family counselor

In the fall of 2003, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Flickr, & Digg did not

exist.

Employment & Wages of Largest

Occupations, May 2007

http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/largest_occs.htm

Career Planning Education Timeline

• 1910’s – First Vocational Act; VICA, FBLA

• 1920’s – Monies for vocational training; federal funds for agricultural and home economics programs

• 1930’s – Promoted national apprenticeship instruction

• 1940’s – Future Homemakers of America founded; federal funds for the vocational training of workers supporting the war effort

• 1950’s – FFA founded

• 1960’s – Vocational Education Act of 1963; Civil Rights Act of 1964

• 1970’s – Promoted the education-to-work transition training programs; Career Education Incentive Act of 1978- Provided for the establishment of career education programs in elementary and secondary schools

• 1980’s –Federal funds in helping disabled youth in transitioning to work

• 1990’s – School-to-Work Act Opportunities Act of 1994 – Emphasized partnerships between educators and employers

• 2000 – today – Academic achievement of career and technical education students, strengthen the connections between secondary and postsecondary education, and improve state and local accountability

http://www.auburn.edu/~chambcd/Vocational%20Education%20Timeline.htm

Career Project

Step 1: Self-Discovery

• Interests, strengths, personality traits, career

goals, values and aptitude

• Three online assessments

• What tasks do you enjoy?

• Analyze information

Interest Inventories

• Drive of Your Life

• https://www.driveofyourlife.org/educator/

• U.S. Department of Education's Careers Cluster

Internet Survey

• http://www.careerclusters.org/ccinterestsurvey.php

• Pathways High School Activities and Courses

Drive of Your Life

https://www.driveofyourlife.org/educator

https://www.driveofyourlife.org

Drive of Your Life


Drive Your Life


Drive of Your Life


States’ Career Clusters

http://www.careerclusters.org/ccinterestsurvey.php


http://www.careerclusters.org/ccinterests

urvey.php


http://vcc.asu.edu/ccis/index.php

Career Pathways

http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~pathways/index.html

Step 2: Explore Careers

• Match your interests, career goals, values and

aptitude to careers

• Peruse through five careers

Handout A

Step 2: Explore Careers

• Actuaries

• Cartographers

• Curator

• Ghostwriter

• Embalmer

• Estheticians

• Sonographers

• Underwriters

• Yardmasters

Handout B

Step 3: Research Specific Career

• Research the occupations that you are considering

• Find out high school graduation requirements

• Look at high school courses

• Find out college requirements

• Research colleges

• Extra-curricula at all levels

• Part-time employments at all levels

Step 3: Research Specific Career

• Create Career Presentation

• Create Career Plan Timeline

• Present to class

• Choose technology

• Reports

• Newsletters

• Children’s Books

• Presentations

• Digital stories

• Podcasts

• Wikis

Think Ahead into the Future

• Where do you see yourself in 9 years? (post college

graduation)

Handout C

Career Project Rubric

PowerPoint Presentations

Photographer

Career in Army

Floral Designer

Physical Therapist

Physical Therapist.pptx

Digital Storytelling

VoiceThread

VoiceThread – My Career Journey http://www.voicethread.com

VoiceThread

http://www.voicethread.com

MixBook

www.mixbook.com

Windows MovieMaker

Pediatrician Movie Student Project

../../My Documents/nbea/My Future JobKaitlynReitz/Pediatrian_0001.wmv

Create a Career Plan Timeline

• www.xtimeline.com

• Create a timeline with events in career plan

• Start at freshman year in high school

• End at getting a job in one’s career

• Can be set to private

Create a Career Plan Timeline

www.xtimeline.com

Education

• Importance for

future:

• Happiness

• Success

• Financial strength

• Self-confidence

• Emotional health

• Physical health

• Downside of Drop

Outs

• Job qualifications

• Stalemate

• Earnings

disadvantage

• Majority of inmates

at federal and state

prisons

Experience

• Part-time work

• Volunteerism

• Internships

• Job shadowing

• Work-study

• Opportunities to develop soft skills

Networking & Relationships

• Teachers

• Principals

• Coaches

• Advisors

• Counselors

• Supervisors

• Managers

Employment Experience

Teens4Hire - http://www.teens4hire.org/

Employment Experience

http://www.snagajob.com/

Career Search &

the Workplace

Go Ahead in Time…

• Finding a job “is” a job

• Monster.com

• Careerbuilder.com

• Yahoo hotjobs

• Resume, Cover Letter, Thank You Letter

• Create a Podcast

• Prepare a 30-second advertisement, highlighting your

skills and career goals, to introduce yourself to potential

employers and people in your network

Go Ahead in Time…

• Dress for Success

• Rule of 14

• Sharon-Fisher Larson, NBEA President

• New Twists for Teaching Professional Wardrobe – PBEA

2007 Conference

• Role-play Interviews

• Students

• Community business leaders

What’s My Line?

• Community

• Odd vocations

• Stereotypes

Word Clouds

http://www.wordle.net/

Career Planning


Learn from Successful Entrepreneurs

• Ten Top Traits

• Milton S. Hershey

• Three bankruptcies

• Generosity

• Philanthropy

• Built a town on chocolate

• Research Successful Entrepreneur

Learn from Successful Entrepreneurs

• Fred Deluca

• Sam Walton

• Bill Gates

• Steve Jobs & Steve Wozniak

• David Filo and Jerry Yang, Ph.D.

• Pierre Omidyar

• Ray Kroc

• Anne Beiler

• Steve Chen & Chad Hurley

• Pierre Omidyar

• Jenny Craig

• Elon Musk

• Michael Dell

• Tom Monanghan

• George Lucas

• Jeffrey Bezos

Find successful community leaders

Entrepreneur showcase • Howard Schultz

• Ralph Lauren

• Martha Stewart

• Sergey Brin & Larry Page

• Oprah Winfrey

• Sean Parker & Sean Fanning

• Donald Trump

Learn from Successful Teen

Entrepreneurs

SBA Teen Business link - http://www.sba.gov/teens/


Entrepreneurs

YoungBiz - http://www.youngbiz.com/


Entrepreneurs

Teen Business Forum -

http://www.teenbusinessforum.com/

Be Your Own Entrepreneur

http://www.lemonadestandgame.com

Be Your Own Entrepreneur

http://www.nfib.com/page/YEFjohnnyMoney.html

Top Ten Traits of Successful

Entrepreneurs


Teaching Ethics to Students

http://www.doug-johnson.com/ethics/

Seven Habits for Highly Effective Teens

http://www.seancovey.com/teens.html

Instructional

Strategies

iPonder

Predict or

Prior

Knowledge

Filled in by

Teacher

New

Knowledge

Self-Reflection

4D Study

• Sentence with word from text

• Meaning of word

• Word in my life

• Drawing/symbol of word - center

1. Sentence

from text

2. From the

dictionary

3. From my

life

4. Symbolic

picture to

represent

word

4D Study

4D Study

Concept Map

• A graphical way to empower users

to:

• Construct knowledge

• Navigate knowledge

• Compare knowledge

• Pattern knowledge

• Share knowledge

“Student @ Computer” ~ photo on www.flickr.com ~ by user jdpotter

Career Background CMAP

Presentatio

n Window

Style Tools

Window

IHMC CMAP

http://cmap.ihmc.us/download/

Presentation

Window

Drawing

Window

Style Tools

Window

Group Activities

TEAM - Together Everyone Achieves More

Ring Around the Research

Ring Around

the Research

Reader

Predictor Paraphraser

Problem-Solving Strategy

http://www.wsjclassroomedition.com/subscribe/index.html

RIDD

Read

Decide

Do

Imagine

Google Docs & Groups

• Word Processor

• Presentations

• Spreadsheets

• Use with Google Groups

http://docs.google.com/ http://groups.google.com/

Workplace Scenarios

• Example one

• Example two

Field Trips

• Brainstorm what you will learn

• Categorize ideas

• Assign category to each group

• Group creates three questions

• Ask on trip

• Bring back answers

Career Exploration Blog

http://hmsdiscovery.blogspot.com

Wikis

http://wiscountwiki.wikispaces.com

Online Resources

http://online.onetcenter.org/

Online Resources

http://www.bls.gov/oco/

Online Resources

http://www.doleta.gov/jobseek

ers/

Online Resources

http://www.careersolutionsgroup.com/

Online Resources

• Job Ready Career Skills

• Job search

• Finding the right job

• Effective resumes

• The application process

• Interviewing skills


Online Resources


• Work habits

• Workplace ethics

• Personal characteristics

• Employer expectations


Online Resources


• Business Etiquette

• On the job etiquette

• Person-to-person etiquette

• Telephone and email etiquette

• Meeting etiquette


Online Resources


• Workplace Effectiveness

• Time management

• Problem solving

• Customer service

• Teamwork


Online Resources


• Communication Skills

• Communicating at work

• Speaking

• Listening

• Presenting yourself

• Non-verbal communication


Inside Classroom Events

• High School Guidance Office

• Curriculum

• Programs

• FBLA, Student Council, Drama Club, FFA

• HR Presentation by community business

• Hersheypark Employment

• Sponsor Career Fair in your school

• Have community business people conduct job

interviews

Outside Classroom Events

• Visit Vocational Technical School

• Visit Careerbeam

• Visit Job Fairs

• Visit College Fairs

• Visit large corporation in community – HR

presentation

Short-term & Long-term Goals

• Create a goal

• Create a plan

• Follow the plan or revise it

• Life-long Learner

•Success

•Self-sufficiency

•Progression & Self-improvement

The Future

“In the 21st century, American

competitiveness and worker

prosperity will be tied tightly to

the education and skill

attainment of the workforce.”

“21st Century Skills for 21st Century Jobs” - A Report of the U.S.

Department of Commerce, U.S. Department of Education, U.S.

Department of Labor, National Institute of Literacy, and the Small

Business Administration,

January 1999

Dreaming of Success

Vision + Energy = Success

References

• National Occupational Information Coordinating

Committee -

http://www.academicinnovations.com/noicc.html

• Pa

http://www.state.pa.us/papower/cwp/view.asp?Q=4

57446&A=11

• Tenyear plan

http://www.academicinnovations.com/11002-

web.pdf

• National standards -

www3.iptv.org/pub/STCpdfs/ncdgstan.pdf

Contact Information

[email protected]

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For electronic files from today’s session:

http://technologysynergy.wikispaces.com

Check out my slideshow on SlideShare.net

Technology…It’s All Around Us ~

username mwiscount

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