High School - Decisions & Goals
The process of developing plans specific to a determined outcome
Learner Goal
Develop skills to make decisions and establish goals.
Indicators
- Demonstrate responsibility for making tentative educational and occupational choices.
- Identify alternatives in given decision-making situations.
- Describe personal strengths and weaknesses in relationship to postsecondary education and/or training requirements.
- Identify appropriate choices during high school that will lead to marketable skills for entry-level employment or advanced training.
- Identify and complete required steps toward transition from high school to entry into postsecondary education and/or training programs or work.
- Identify steps to apply for and secure financial assistance for postsecondary education and/or training.
- Establish short-term and long-term goals toward educational attainment and career entry.
- Review, revise, and validate an ICP document.
Suggested Activities
- Simulation situations
- Audiovisual materials
- ICP process
- Decision-making units of study
- Interviews with older adults about key decisions they have made*
- Participation in specific events, such as the Medicine Show
- Real-life decision-making situations
- Leadership seminars
- Business partnership interviews to gather input on actual work-related moral issues
* This and other starred activities facilitate parental involvement.
