Career+Planning+Assignment+6


 * 1) Look at the 50 careers you listed in Career Awareness in your Google Document. Place a checkmark beside the 20 work titles that sound most interesting to you. Copy these 20 titles onto the Top Work Interests worksheet under Your Personal Top 20 Careers. Use Choices® Explorer to research each title so that you are confident enough about these careers to discuss them with other students. You should be able to answer at least the following about each of your 20 careers: What type of education would you need? What special skills or abilities are needed? What activities are done in a typical day when working in this career?
 * 2) Work with your teacher to form groups of three or four students sitting together. Each group member should be ready with their list of 20 favorite careers.
 * 3) Select a group member to start by slowly reading his/her 20 careers to the rest of the group. While reading, a reporter should create a new Google Document with your group name and record the careers under Your Group’s Top Careers. Other group members besides the reader, should ask for further information about unfamiliar careers.
 * 4) Once the first person has finished reading and explaining his/her careers, the next person in the group can begin reading his/her list. Continue in this manner until everyone in the group has gone through his or her own list.
 * 5) As a group, take a look at the first career from your group list. Put a letter “A” next to it and next to all the other careers your group feels could be grouped with that first career because of some type of similarity. At this point, members of your group may identify different careers to receive an “A.” That is OK. Take turns sharing your reasons for choosing careers until you reach agreement on those that should be included.
 * 6) Create an original title for group “A” that fits all the careers your group chose. Don’t use the ones already shown in Choices® Explorer. If you discover one or two of the careers don’t fit the title, erase the “A” next to those careers for now, and focus on creating a good title for the remaining careers. The title should result in about 4-9 careers which fit well.
 * 7) Once you have all agreed on a good career group title, record it on your Google Document in a section called Career Group A, and record the careers that belong underneath.
 * 8) Repeat steps 5-7 to create five to seven more career groups and place the appropriate careers beneath each group title. You may find that a career fits better in alternative group once you create more groups. Feel free to switch a career after you have already placed it. If you have a few leftover careers that don’t seem to fit in any group and you’ve already created eight, see if you can create a new group for those.
 * 9) Now, on your own, identify the two different career groups that are most interesting to you at this point in time. Place your name next to that group name on the document
 * 10) Record your response to the Reflection in your own Google Document that is titled Career Planning: Take a look at the careers in the two groups you chose as your favorites. If you are not sure what a career is, ask about it from the group member who had it on their original list or use the Choices® Explorer Search tool. On your own, record a list of five characteristics from those careers which make them interesting to you.