High School - Exploration
Experiential opportunities to explore career options related to individual's choice
Learner Goal 1
Understand selected careers.
Indicators
- Describe school and community resources to explore educational and occupational choices.
- Identify worker conditions, education and training, and employment opportunities related to selected careers.
- Identify career ladders possible within selected career goals(s).
Learner Goal 2
Understand and experience the process of preparation, exploration, reflection, and re-evaluation.
Indicators
- Compare traits, skills, and characteristics required for specific career choices with individual's traits, skills, and characteristics.
- Tentatively resolve potential conflicts between personal characteristics and career choice areas.
- Describe the impact of exploration activities on current career choices.
- Demonstrate occupational skills developed through volunteer experiences, part-time employment, or cooperative education programs.
Suggested Activities
- Worker interview
- Job shadowing
- Mentorships
- Student-parent interaction following the exploration experience*
- Group and/or individual discussion for reflection and reevaluation
- Career clubs
- Community-sponsored exploration, such as Junior Achievement, Boy Scouts, and Girl Scouts
* This and other starred activities facilitate parental involvement.
