ROPES Lesson Plan

Name of Lesson: Internet Career Search

Unit/Duty Area: Career and Employability, Business (English, Technology)

Objectives/Task – The student will:

Review: (where learner is) 10 minutes

Preparation: Hook computer up to overhead television. Make sure students have booted their computers up by the time class begins.

  1. Start by asking the question, "By a show of hands, how many people know what they want to do after they graduate?" Pause for response.
  2. Ask the question, "How many people have no idea what they want to do after they graduate?" Pause for response.
  3. Tell them that it’s okay to not know what you want to do after school. Today, however, we are going to search the Internet for career information to at least give them some ideas.
  4. Following your lead, have students go to the following web site:

    5. http://www.myfuture.com/career/personality.html

  5. Tell students to check all boxes that apply to them and then click Done.
  6. Next, have them click on each work style that comes up. Explain that they are just viewing the jobs under each style. At this point, no notes are taken.
  7. After 10 minutes, make sure all students have viewed occupations under at least one work style.

Overview: (where learner is going?) 5 minutes

    1. Strengthen and enhance Internet skills.
    2. Gain an understanding of careers that best match your interests.
    3. Develop an understanding of the wide variety of career choices available today.

If you begin early enough to look at where your interests lie, then you can prepare yourself for a career or job after education, so that you will find a successful match, which brings happiness and longevity in the occupational route you choose.

Presentation: (how learner will get there?) 15 minutes

Preparation: Have paper and writing utensils available.

Steps:

Show

    1. Begin by explaining that today they are going to take an on-line questionnaire that will help guide them to careers that would be of most interest to them.
    2. The questionnaire is called The Career Key. It measures their personality type and lists careers under each type of personality. The personalities are:

      3. Realistic           Investigative 

      Social               Artistic

      Enterprising    Conventional
    3. Explain that they will first watch on the television how to get to and complete the questionnaire. They will be required to take notes.

      4. Tell/Do
    4. Let’s begin! First, you will go to the following web site: (make sure students are beginning to take notes).

      5. http://www.cgibin.ncsu.edu/cep-bin/ckbin/ck.pl

    5. Tell students you will use yourself as an example while showing them how to complete this questionnaire.

    -There will first be 42 jobs listed. They are to check any job that looks             interesting to them.  

    - Next, they will be asked six different activities and abilities that they are to mark True, Mostly True, or Not True. 

    - Finally, they will be asked six different questions about how they see themselves, and what they value, with the same answers available as the previous questions.  

    - They will be given a score for each personality type. They are to go to the type that they scored the highest in. 

    - Once they are at "their" personality type page, they are to look through all jobs and click those that are of interest to them (similar to what they did in the beginning). They are to click Next. 

    - At the next site, it will list each job as a link to find out more information about that particular job, such as earnings, training, etc.

Exercise: (how to make sure the learner gets there.) – 15 minutes

Repeat

-Using the notes that were just taken, have students (on their own) get onto the Internet and complete The Career Key questionnaire.

-Have students write down three jobs that they would possible be interested in.

 

Note: If student can narrow search to one or two jobs that is fine.

Apply

-Once students have listed their top three jobs, have them view information related to each job.

-Students are to narrow their job choices down to one job.

-Using the information on the web site, have students take notes and/or print out pages on the job they have picked.

 

Transfer

 

-Using the notes and/or print-outs, students are to prepare a one-page summary on the job they have picked.  They will have part of the next class to complete this summary.

Summary: (checking to see if learner got there) – 10 minutes

Using the notes and/or printouts, go around the class and ask students to share the job that they picked.

 

-Ask them why they picked that particular career.

-Ask them one interesting thing they learned about that career.

-Ask them if their results matched the results of the interest survey taken at the beginning of the hour.

 

 

 

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