Teaching Career Exploration: Curriculum Guide

By Eva Marie Foxwell

Eva Marie Foxwell’s lessons are designed with a focus on giving teachers dynamic and interactive lessons, guided learning ideas, detailed assignments, formative and summative assessments, and a wealth of classroom material. For students, this curriculum guide is designed to provide space to think, reflect, create, and collaborate toward fo

• Language: English
• Publisher: CR Teaching
• Release date: Aug 6, 2018
• ISBN: 9780998929170

Eva Marie Foxwell

Eva Marie Foxwell is a middle school Business Technology teacher at Brandywine Springs School in Wilmington, Delaware. Her previous teaching experience includes K-8 education and serving as a Reading Specialist. Eva received her B.S. in Elementary Education from Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania. Before becoming a teacher, she held a career in banking for 14 years, in addition to serving as Operations Manager for an insurance company in Delaware and raising three daughters. While working as a substitute teacher at her daughters' school, Eva was invited to teach and develop the curriculum for the Business Technology program. She brings her realworld experience in management, operations, and marketing into the classroom, where she helps students develop business knowledge and entrepreneurial skills. She is now turning her passion for teaching toward creating useful curriculum guides for fellow teachers. Eva's awards include Teen Ink's 2015 Educator of the Year and the Delaware State Chamber of Commerce 2015 Superstar in Education Award. Her first book, Managing the Classroom, prepares students for their future with career-ready education and a student-centered classroom. Managing the Classroom is available through her website, www.crteaching.com. A life-long learner, Eva has completed continuing education classes in technology and pedagogy, and serves as an advisor for multiple charitable foundations. In her spare time, she enjoys coaching youth and high school basketball, reading, cooking, spending time with her family, and antique shopping. Find her on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EvaZanoliniFoxwell/ Follow her on Twitter: @EvaFoxwell

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Teaching Career Exploration

Curriculum Guide

Lesson Plans, Warm-ups, Worksheets,

Assignments, and Assessments

Eva Marie Foxwell

Wilmington, DE

© 2018 by Eva Marie Foxwell

All rights reserved. With the exception of worksheets designed to be copied and distributed to students, no part of this book may be used or reproduced without written permission from the author, except in the case of quotations in articles or reviews.

ISBN-13: 978-0-9989291-6-3 (paperback)

ISBN-13: 978-0-9989291-7-0 (e-book)

Once again, to my sister Anita for her unfailing guidance and support.

And to my student Chris DiLorenzo for teaching me the software program to design this book.

Contents

About the Author

Introduction

Managing the Classroom

How to Use this Curriculum Guide

Setting Up Your Classroom

Binder Checks

Binder Check: Teacher Overview

Binder Check: Student Homework

Unit A: Career Exploration

Unit A Overview

Assignment A: Career Map Report

Assignment A Rubric: Summative Assessment

LESSON 1: Career Assessments

LESSON 2: Researching Jobs

Assignment A.3: Career Research Slide Show and Presentation

Assignment A.3 Rubric: Summative Assessment

LESSON 3: Career Research PowerPoint Presentation

Assignment A.4: Career Research Graphing

Assignment A.4 Rubric: Summative Assessment

LESSON 4: Career Research Graphing

Assignment A.5: High School Learning Plan

Assignment A.5 Rubric: Summative Assessment

LESSON 5: High School Learning Plan

LESSON 6: Unit A Review Paddle Game

Assignment A.7: Career Map Parent Presentation Role-Play

Assignment A.7 Rubric: Summative Assessment

LESSON 7: Career Map Presentations

Unit A Exam

Unit A Exam Answer Key

Unit B: Job Applications

Unit B Overview

Assignment B: Job Application Packet and Interview

Assignment B Rubric: Summative Assessment

LESSON 8: Researching Job Opportunities

Assignment B.9: Resume

Assignment B.9 Rubric: Summative Assessment

LESSON 9: Writing a Resume

Assignment B.10: Cover Letter

Assignment B.10 Rubric: Summative Assessment

LESSON 10: Writing a Cover Letter

LESSON 11: Job Application Follow-up Email

Assignment B.12: Job Interview Questions and Answers

Assignment B.12 Rubric: Summative Assessment

LESSON 12: Job Interview Preparation

Assignment B.13: Company Profile PowerPoint Slide Show and Presentation

Assignment B.13 Rubric: Summative Assessment

LESSON 13: Company Profile Presentation

Assignment B.14: Mock Job Interview

Assignment B.14 Rubric: Summative Assessment

LESSON 14: Mock Job Interview

Unit B Exam

Unit B Exam Answer Key

Unit C: Personal Finance

Unit C Overview

Assignment C: Personal Finance Reflection

Assignment C Rubric: Summative Assessment

LESSON 15: Understanding Income

LESSON 16: Understanding Expenses

LESSON 17: Creating a Balanced Budget

Unit C Exam

Unit C Exam Answer Key

Course Conclusion

About the Author

Eva Marie Foxwell is a middle school Business Technology teacher at Brandywine Springs School in Wilmington, Delaware, and the author of Managing the Classroom and Teaching Entrepreneurship.

Eva received her B.S. in Elementary Education from Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania. Before becoming a teacher, she held a career in banking for 14 years, in addition to serving as Operations Manager for an insurance company in Delaware and raising three daughters. Her previous teaching experience includes K-8 education and serving as a Reading Specialist.

While working as a substitute teacher at her daughters’ school, Eva was invited to teach and develop the curriculum for the Business Technology program. She brings her real-world experience in management, operations, and marketing into the classroom, where she helps students develop business knowledge and entrepreneurial skills. She is now turning her passion for teaching toward creating useful curriculum guides for fellow teachers.

Eva’s awards include Teen Ink’s 2015 Educator of the Year and the Delaware State Chamber of Commerce 2015 Superstar in Education Award. Her previous books include Managing the Classroom, which prepares students for their future with career-ready education and a student-centered classroom, and Teaching Entrepreneurship Curriculum Guide, which gives business and technology teachers tools, lessons, activities, assignments, and assessments to engage middle school students in learning Business and Technology. Find Eva and her other books on her website, www.crteaching.com.

A life-long learner, Eva has completed continuing education classes in technology and pedagogy, and serves as an advisor for multiple charitable foundations. In her spare time, she enjoys coaching youth and high school basketball, reading, cooking, spending time with her family, and antique shopping.

Find her on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EvaZanoliniFoxwell/

Follow her on Twitter: @EvaFoxwell

Introduction

Teaching Career Exploration is a curriculum guide for new and experienced instructors who want a structured yet flexible outline for teaching in Business and Technology. Eva Marie Foxwell’s lessons are designed with a focus on giving teachers dynamic and interactive lessons, guided learning ideas, detailed assignments, formative and summative assessments, and a wealth of classroom material.

For students, this curriculum guide is designed to provide space to think, reflect, create, and collaborate toward formal projects that engage real-world business expectations.

Teachers are encouraged to use these templates as strictly or loosely as they wish. There can be any level of deviation, customization, or combination that works best for your grade level, reading level, business resources, business community, administrative support, and collaborative possibilities at your school.

It is therefore highly recommended that teachers read through this entire curriculum guide before the beginning of the year, in order to assess for themselves the best way to use the provided materials.

Managing the Classroom

Teaching Career Exploration is a follow-up to Eva Marie Foxwell’s teaching manual, Managing the Classroom, which brings curriculum to life in the classroom with live role-play and scenarios. Managing the Classroom gives students career-ready education in a student-centered classroom, preparing them to serve as strong leaders as they learn the fundamentals of business.

Teaching Career Exploration is meant for use after you have read Managing the Classroom, which provides a course syllabus, guide for assigning classroom business roles, ice breaker activity, learning styles assessment, and goal-setting plan that are integral to making this curriculum successful and dynamic.

You can purchase Managing the Classroom, as well as Eva’s other curriculum guides, Teaching Entrepreneurship and Teaching Business Soft Skills, at www.crteaching.com.

How to Use This Curriculum Guide

This curriculum guide is divided into three units, each focused on one important aspect of career exploration and provide a variety of lessons, activities, reflection exercises, and formative assessment questions to help students explore their future careers.

Assignments

Each major assignment, complete with clearly articulated requirements and learning indicators, appears at the beginning of the unit so you can see what all the lessons are building toward. You may choose to show students the major assignment at the beginning of the unit or wait until students are ready to begin working on it. Each assignment will ask students to explore, analyze, interpret, reflect, or synthesize business skills and knowledge.

Assignments A, B,