STC Workshops for Students

STC Workshops for Students
Table Of Contents
Page 2:
Careers in a Box
Page 6:
The Job Market
Page 3:
Paving the Way Day
Page 7:
Being Ready for Work,
Landing the Job I and
Pathways to Alignment
Page 4:
Paycheck Day
Page 5:
Career Expansions
Back Cover:
Landing the Job II and
Contact Information
Careers in a Box
(Target Grade Level: 6th)
It’s more than a workshop, it’s a resource!
Careers in a Box focuses
on the 16 career clusters,
job market data, brochures,
resources, rates of pay, typical
tracks to obtain specific careers,
12 career readiness practices,
plans of study and more.
This activity is designed to
assist teachers with meeting the
family and consumer science
credit.
In this activity, learners will:
Begin to formulate career
objectives and identify career
interests.
Research different careers
of interest.
Collect, categorize and sort
data in a careers database.
Careers in a Box
Compose an employment
resume.
Develop interviewing skills
through role-playing.
Assemble and present a
digital career portfolio.
Module 1:
Assessing Career Interests
In this module, learners ...
Self-assess their career
interests and styles based on
interest surveys.
Describe their “ideal” or
“dream” job based on their selfassessments.
Module 2:
Investigating Careers
In this module, learners ...
Identify job categories or
clusters.
Explore possible career
choices based on their selfassessments.
Research in-depth one
career choice.
Module 3:
Preparing a Career Portfolio
In this module, learners ...
Write a functional resume.
Prepare for and role-play a
mock job interview.
Assemble and present a
career portfolio.
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The local agriculture industry:
Agriculture
Paving
the Way Day
(Target Grade Level: 7th and 8th)
Exploring career interests ...
The Paving the Way Day
workshop is designed to take
interest inventories developed
with guidance counselors and a
BOCES representative and then
link students’ academic track to
their desired career field.
During the workshop,
students will take a career
clusters interest survey, learn
about connecting with careers
and take a Holland code theory
quiz.
Dr. John L. Holland
developed the popularly used
theory that is the basis for most
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career inventories used today.
The Holland code theory is a
system to classify jobs into job
categories, interest clusters or
work personality environments.
In the Holland model, these
categories represent work
personalities. The six basic
work personalities are:
Realistic.
Investigative.
Artistic.
Social.
Enterprising.
Conventional.
According to Holland, a
person might have interests
in several of the groups but is
usually more strongly attracted
to two or three of the interest
areas.
Paving the Way Day
Paycheck Day
(Target Grade Level: 7th and 8th)
A day in the life ...
Paycheck Day is a mock day
during which students choose a
career in their field of interest.
Students will receive a mock
salary and go through the day
making life purchases and
budgeting.
During this workshop,
students will use a monthly
budget worksheet, expenses
worksheet and percentage
calculator.
The following are the
objectives for the workshop:
Determine expenses for
housing, transportation and
leisure items.
Develop, analyze, and
revise a budget based on mock
income and expenses.
Paycheck Day
In this workshop, students
discover how they could make
and maintain a budget in the
real world.
During the mock day,
students will be given the
monthly salary for a career that
could be attained with a highschool degree.
Then they’ll learn about the
percentage of income that’s
subtracted for taxes and the
difference between their gross
and net incomes.
Next, students will determine
their expenses, including
those based on choices they
make about their housing,
transportation and leisure
items.
To do this, students will visit
vendors for each of these items
who will try to sell their item
and collect a check for their
expense.
If staff or community
members are available,
additional vendors could
be included for groceries,
entertainment and clothing.
Finally, students will compare
their monthly net income and
expenses to determine if they
have a monthly balance or if
they need to cut down expenses
by making different choices.
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Agriculture
Career
Expansions
The
local agriculture industry:
(Target Grade Level: 7th and 8th)
Budgeting with a job requiring a college degree ...
Career Expansions is another
mock day during which
students choose a career in
their field of interest, and this
time, they’ll choose a career
that requires a college degree.
This workshop can serve as
a continuation of Paycheck
Day, but it’s not required
that students have previously
participated in Paycheck Day.
In this workshop, students
may build on Paycheck Day,
during which they learned how
to make and maintain a budget
in the real world, or they can
learn the process here.
During the mock day,
students will be given a
monthly salary for a career that
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could be attained with a degree
from a two-year college, fouryear college or graduate school.
They will determine their net
incomes, as well as expenses
based on choices they make
about housing, transportation
and leisure items.
To do this, students will visit
vendors for each of these items
who will try to sell their item
and collect a check for their
expense.
If staff or community
members are available,
additional vendors could
be included for groceries,
entertainment and clothing
Next, students will create a
budget to see if their income
covers their expenses and revise
their budgets as necessary
Finally, they will be given
“chance” cards to represent
unexpected expenses or
income and will have to modify
their budgets based on what
happens.
By comparing their Paycheck
Day budget based on a career
requiring only a high-school
degree to today’s activity,
students should be able to see
the potential financial benefits
of a post-secondary education. Career Expansions
The Job Market
(Target Grade Level: 9th)
Information you need ...
The Job Market workshop is
designed for students to review
job market data, brochures
and salaries and gain an
understanding of the 16 career
clusters and 12 career readiness
practices.
The 16 career clusters that
will be reviewed are:
1. Agriculture, food
and natural resources. 2.
Architecture and construction.
3. Arts, A/V technology
and communications. 4.
Business management and
administration. 5. Education
and training. 6. Finance.
7. Government and public
administration. 8. Health
science. 9. Hospitality and
The Job Market
tourism. 10. Human services.
11. Information technology.
12. Law, public safety,
corrections and security. 13.
Manufacturing. 14. Marketing.
15. Science, technology,
engineering and mathematics.
16. Transportation, distribution
and logistics.
The 12 career readiness
practices are:
1. Apply appropriate
technical skills and academic
knowledge. 2. Communicate
clearly, effectively and with
reason. 3. Develop an
education and career plan
aligned with personal goals.
4. Apply technology to
enhance productivity. 5.
Utilize critical thinking to
make sense of problems and
persevere in solving them.
6. Practice personal health
and understand financial
literacy. 7. Act as a responsible
citizen in the workplace and
the community. 8. Model
integrity, ethical leadership and
effective management. 9. Work
productively in teams while
integrating cultural and global
competence. 10. Demonstrate
creativity and innovation.
11. Employ valid and reliable
research strategies. 12.
Understand the environmental,
social and economic impacts of
decisions.
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The local agriculture industry:
Agriculture
Being
Ready for Work
(Target Grade Level: 9th)
Resume development and job searching ...
The Being Ready for Work
workshop is designed to
help students with resume
development and job search
skills.
The kit for this workshop
includes the following materials
to help students:
Why do I need a resume?
Resume Action Verbs.
Landing the Job I
Resume Reminders and
Review.
Sample Resume 1.
Sample Resume 2.
Resume Prep Sheet.
(Target Grade Level: 9th)
Interview and soft job skills ...
The Landing the Job
workshop is designed for
developing interview skills and
soft job skills.
The kit for this workshop
includes the following materials
to help students:
What is an Interview?
Preparation for the
Interview.
During the Interview.
Frequent Questions Asked
by Employers.
After the Interview.
Thank You Letter Template.
During this workshop,
students could participate in
some of the following activities:
Talking about what an
interview is and the reasons for
doing interviews.
Learning ways to prepare
for an interview.
Hearing examples of what
Pathways to Alignment
to do during an interview and
acting them out.
Practicing asking and
responding to frequently asked
interview questions.
Discussing how to follow up
aft er the interview.
Coming up with places they
would like to interview at and
creating a thank you letter as if
they had just interviewed with
one of those companies.
(Target Grade level: 10th)
Mapping the way to college and career goals ...
The Pathways to Alignment
workshop is designed for
students to understand plans of
study (POS) and align college
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and career goals.
During this workshop,
students will learn about career
cluster plans of study and go
through a choose your career
cluster worksheet and a career
to college research worksheet.
Being Ready for Work, Landing the Job I,
Pathways to Alignment
Landing the Job II
(Target Grade Level: 10th)
Resumes, mock interviews, job preparation ...
The Landing the Job II
workshop is designed for ongoing resume development,
discussing interview skills,
conducting mock interview and
talking about being prepared.
As part of the resume
development, students will
have their resumes critiqued
and if available, will be able to
print out their final resumes.
Then students will take their
resumes with them as they meet
with multiple interviewers in
mock interviews.
Interviewers will fill out
feedback forms to give back to
the students, and students will
fill out a self-evaluation form.
STC Workshops Contact Information
How to find out more and sign up for the workshops ...
Contact:
Chris Groves
School to Careers Director
Phone: 315-867-2045
Email: cgroves@herkimer-boces.org
Contact:
MaryBeth Napolitano
School to Careers Liaison
Phone: 315-867-2043
Email: mnapolitano@herkimer-boces.org
Landing the Job II and Contact Information