Little Elm ISD will introduce Career Investigations as a semester elective course for the very first time during the 2000-01 school year. The students who elect to take this course will first have a semester of Computer Applications and then follow it with the Career class. Students will use self-knowledge, educational and career information to set and achieve realistic and educational goals.
The lessons presented here in the newsletter incorporate the use of technology and the integration of the TA TEKS (Technology Application Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills) and the Career Orientation TEKS. They were put together to supplement the curriculum used in the course.
Each lesson has 2-3 activities that advance through Blooms six levels of the cognitive domain, from the simple recall or recognition of facts, to the highest order which is classified as evaluation. The six levels are listed here with verb examples.
Knowledge: arrange, define, duplicate,
label, list, memorize, name, order, recognize, relate, recall, repeat,
reproduce state.
Comprehension: classify, describe,
discuss, explain, express, identify, indicate, locate,recognize, report,
restate, review, select, translate,
Application: apply, choose, demonstrate,
dramatize, employ, illustrate, interpret, operate, practice, schedule,
sketch, solve, use, write.
Analysis: analyze, appraise, calculate,
categorize, compare, contrast, criticize, differentiate,
discriminate, distinguish, examine, experiment,
question, test.
Synthesis: arrange, assemble, collect,
compose, construct, create, design, develop, formulate, manage, organize,
plan, prepare, propose, set up, write.
Evaluation: appraise, argue, assess,
attach, choose compare, defend estimate, judge, predict, rate, core, select,
support, value, evaluate.
Lesson one starts out with Career Interest and Character Analysis. Lesson two follows with the Investigation of different jobs and is the only lesson of the three that has already been used in a class setting. The other two were recently added to build upon the use of the internet in the classroom. The third lesson involves communicating with experts in the students career field of choice, analyzing the parts of a resume, writing a resume and holding mock interviews. The course will be taught in a computer lab, lending itself beautifully to technology integration.
If you use any of these lessons in your
school, please give us your feedback with suggestions for improving the
activities that are presented. [email protected]
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