Career Choices
teaches self-awareness, decision-making skills, and career exploration. It is
appropriate for both college-bound and School-to-Work students. As students uncover
their unique abilities and ambitions, they develop the following skills and attitudes
needed to build successful careers and lives in rapidly changing times:

Career Choices is designed to help young people deal with the two major tasks of adolescence: establishing and consolidating their identity and deciding what they want to do with their lives. It goes without saying that these are huge undertakings for individuals of any age. We believe, therefore, that teens can use all the help they can get.

September 4

p. 6-21

Introduction / Envisioning Your Future

Why People Work / Defining Success

September 10

p. 22-30

Making Career Choices / Personal Profile

Identifying Your Passion / Work Values Survey

September 17

p. 31-45

Work Values Survey / Strengths and Personality

Personality and Career / Developing Your Strengths

September 24

p. 46-53

Skills and Aptitudes / Name That Skill

Interest Inventory / Roles, Occupations, and Vocations

October 1

p. 54-71

Projecting Into The Future / Long-Range Planning

Components of Lifestyles / A Balanced Lifestyle

October 9

p. 72-78

Project: Personal Portfolio

Housing Budget / Renting or Owning

Cost of Home Ownership / Making The Best Choice

October 15

p.79-85

Buying a Car / Cost of Owning a Car

Clothing Budget / Food Budget

October 22

p. 86-89

Weekly Grocery Cost / Entertainment Budget

Planning for Vacations / Child Care Budget

October 29

p. 89

Furnishing Expenses / Saving For Long Term

Saving For Retirement / Total Budget Profile

Review For Mid-Term Exam / Mid-Term Exam

November 5

p. 95-113

Hard Times Budget / Developing Charts and Graphs

Psychological Costs / Sacrifices vs. Rewards

November 12

p. 114-139

Investments In Education / Your Ideal Career

Consider Your Options / Employee or Employer

November 19

p. 140-170

Project: The Shadow Program

Career Interest Areas / Career Research

Career Interest Survey / Identifying Choices

November 26

p. 171-200

Gathering Information / Evaluating Choices 

Solving Problems / Setting Goals and Objectives

December 3

p. 201-213

Startling Statement Quiz/ Detours and Roadblocks

Is It Worth Staying In School / Economics of Bad Habits

December 10

p. 214-226

Before You Give Up Your Dream

One Step At a Time / Taking Risks

December 17

p. 227-263

The Six E’s of Excellence / You’re the Boss

The Employee of the Twenty-first Century

January 2

p. 260-269

Project:  The Job Interview

Dealing With Rejection / Accepting a Job

Education and Training / Working As a Team

January 7

p. 270-282

Where is it You Want to Go? / Your Plan

Remembering Your Dreams and Plans

Course Wrap-Up

January 14

Review For Final Exam / Final Exam