Career+Day+Preparation+and+Presentation

Thursday April 24, 2014

====**Objective:** To introduce elementary children to multiple career options within Holland’s code while also exposing children to nontraditional gender specific jobs. Additionally, children will learn the connection between education and success in the workplace.====

**PA Standards:**
// Career Awareness and Preparation 13.1 // Grade 3: A.) Recognize that individuals have unique interests F.) Explore how people prepare for careers Grade 5: A.) Describe impact of individual interests and abilities of career choices F.) Investigate peoples rational for making career choices

// 3.2. Career Acquisition // Grade 3:D. Identify the importance of developing a plan for the future. E. Discuss the importance of the essential workplace skills, such as, but not limited to: • Dependability • Health/safety • Team building • Technology

// 13.4. Entrepreneurship // Grade 3: B. Describe the character traits of successful entrepreneurs, such as, but not limited to: • Adaptability • Creative thinking • Ethical behavior • Leadership • Positive attitude • Risk-taking Grade 5: C. Discuss the steps entrepreneurs take to bring their goods or services to market, such as, but not limited to: • Marketing • Production • Research and development • Selection of goods and services

**Preparation**
//Presenters//: After deciding who we want to participate, we will send out multiple letter of interest. The ideal number would be 12 so that we can narrow it down to 6. After we have selected participants, we will send them a letter detailing what information should be covered in the session as well as the timeline of the day.



//Lunch//: We will send out letter to restaurants asking for a donation of lunch for career day. If we do not receive any positive responses, we will ask the PTO to cover the expense

//Volunteers//: A letter will be sent home with each child for their parents asking for participation in career day. They will be helping to chaperone classes, escort presenters, and organizing lunch for the presenters.

//Teachers//: We send them a schedule for career week as well as the worksheets/activities to be used with their class Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday. Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday will be the pre-career day activities and Friday will be a debriefing activity. We will include information on how to use the activities with the class.



//Counselors//: Counseling will be working with 3rd and 5th throughout the year, visiting twice a month, to provide career awareness activities. Please see the “Class Activity” page for further detail.

Letters to teachers and volunteers:

**Career Day**

 * //RIASEC//: For our career day, we are using Holland’s codes (RIASEC) so that we will expose the students to a wide variety of careers. This should help ensure that there is a career represented that each child will find interesting. This will also cover all basic fields of jobs. Since we are working with a young audience, we do not want to overwhelm them with too many careers so we picked one vocation for each category, totaling six.


 * Our career day will be held outside to create excitement for our elementary audience. Since it is taking place April, the weather should be conducive to a comfortable learning environment. If it happens to rain, we will relocate it to the gym.


 * Our career day will be held outside to create excitement for our elementary audience. Since it is taking place April, the weather should be conducive to a comfortable learning environment. If it happens to rain, we will relocate it to the gym.


 * Every 3rd-5th grader will be given an information sheet to fill out for each job to ensure that they are paying attention and learning information.
 * [[file:Career Day Questions.docx]]

This is a sample of the careers that will be represented at career day. The presenters will ideally be the gender opposite of the stereotype and/or be a person from the non-dominant culture.

Initial discussion of why she chose to enter the field. Highlighting why she likes the job as well as the education/training she needed. She may also note the progression of women as pilots. To increase student interest in career, an additional action-packed video will be shown:[|Thunderstruck] To show the overview of the job as well as highlight needed skills, this video will be shown:[|Pilot Career Day] If time allows, this worksheet can also be used for K-2: **[|Jobs on the Go- Page 3]**
 * R- Army Pilot*** (minority female and ideally one from Middle Eastern descent)

Initial discussion of why she chose to enter the field. Highlighting why she likes the job as well as the education/training she needed. She will discuss the variety of careers offered to chemists. A chemistry project will be demonstrated to increase interest of the students. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLiNHqwgWaQ
 * I- Chemist*** (female)
 * A video demonstrating experiment:**

https://www.teachervision.com/tv/printables/SP-38.pdf
 * A matching worksheet may also be used for K-2:**

A- Architect (minority female)

S- Nurse (male)

E- Lawyer (African American male)

C- Administrative Assistant (male)


 * Sample created for use with presentation

**Assessment**
In order to assess how well our career week went and gain feedback in order to make improvements, we will give each teacher an evaluation form to fill out and return to the guidance counselor. The "What did your students learn?" questions will help the guidance counselor determine if the students are learning the intended information from the PA Standards.

References: Elhardt, L. et al. // Career Day/ Week/ Month Special Projects and Activities. // Minot Public School District #1.[]