Middle School - Decisions & Goals
The process of developing plans specific to a determined outcome
Learner Goal
Develop skills to make decisions and establish goals.
Indicators
- Describe a range of decision-making patterns.
- Describe personal beliefs and attitudes.
- Describe how career development is a continuous process with a series of choices.
- Identify possible outcomes of a decision.
- Describe school courses related to personal, educational, and occupational interests.
- Describe how the expectations of others affect career planning.
- Identify ways in which decisions about education and work relate to other major life decisions.
- Identify some advantages and disadvantages of various secondary and postsecondary programs regarding the attainment of career goals.
- Identify the requirements for secondary and postsecondary programs.
- Identify and give examples of both short-term and long-term goals.
- Initiate a rational and comprehensive ICP.
Suggested Activities
- Decision-making maps
- Descriptions of decision-making situations that workers face (attained through speakers or letters written to workers)
- Career-based and/or school-based decision-making dilemmas
- Assessment of past decisions
- Commercial instructional resources
* This and other starred activities facilitate parental involvement.
