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Career Exploration
Description of the Course
The Career Exploration course is a multi-faceted course consisting of many areas of study directly related to shop selection, goal achievement, work ethic, and character building.
It is not a standard academic course but builds on the concept of
decision- making, career searches, and necessary competencies needed to excel in a students chosen field of endeavor.
In the flow of a five-day school week, the course spends one day a week exploring options on careers, two days learning to become proficient with computers, and one day in the Library-Skills class.
Freshman Career-Exploration Curriculum
The Career Exploration course covers areas of vocational foundation building.
It permits a view of the overall program here at Mercy with an eye on the correct path of study to achieve a specific goal.
The primary goal is to offer occupational information and guidance to assist students when choosing a vocational training area.
This class deals with effective speech, interviewing techniques, and character development.
It shows students seven different vocational areas from which to choose.
It helps students develop a work ethic and teaches them how to write a resume.
It uses the Differential Aptitude test as a tool for direction.
It allows students to hear the pros and cons from upperclass students in all the different shops and lets them visit those shops for a hands-on feel to help with their decision-making.
It brings in outside people, who are highly successful in their trades but who never attended college, to speak to students about what it takes to succeed: character, attitude, and work ethic.
This class is taken once a week and is graded on a satisfactory or unsatisfactory basis.
The class is thorough, diverse, and interesting.
Assessments
Students are given projects and unconventional drills: e.g., watching themselves being interviewed through use of a large-screen Smartboard.
Needed For Class
Notebook
Pencil
Open Mind
Scope and Sequence
The emphasis of each quarter:
First Quarter:
Careers and Goal Achievement
D.A.T. Testing
Proper Speech Techniques
Second Quarter:
Powerpoint Presentations of Mercys Shop Offerings
Student-to-Student Seminars
Shop-Teacher Lecture Series
Third Quarter:
Interviewing Techniques
Shop Visits
Resume Construction
Fourth Quarter:
Outside Speakers
Character Development
Credit Issues
By the end of this course, a ninth grader will:
Be able to make an informed decision on his/her shop selection
Construct a resume
Improve speech and acquire employable social skills
Be able to handle interviews
Know what it takes to be successful
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