Lesson Title: Portfolio
Topic/Focus Area: Careers

Lesson Overview
Content Standards
Objectives
Activities
Resources
File Attachments
Assessment
Additional Comments

Subject(s): Language Arts/Reading

Grade Level(s): 12

Name: Jodi Johnson
Taught: Other
Phone: 760-768-3940
E-mail: jjohnson@calexico.k12.ca.us
School: Aurora High (Cont.)
641 Rockwood Ave.
Calexico, CA 92231-2700


Lesson Overview

TWELVE-WEEK BLOCK

WEEK 1 Students are introduced to Careercruising.com, which assesses and identifies career matches.

Pre-test – consist of 5 questions pertaining to qualification needed to attain future career.

Questionnaire of careers and/or job family members posses and write a job description.

WEEK 2-8 Students complete a Computerized Portfolio consisting of resume, application, cover letter, etc…(See Portfolio Handbook for directions and samples)

WEEK 9-12 Student research and present a PowerPoint presentation of career or jobs they are interested in pursuing after graduation.
· Class presentation
· Panel presentation
· Post-Test is taking in order to ascertain measurable career awareness.



Standards

Subject : English-Language Arts
Grade : Eleventh & Twelfth
Strand : Writing
Substrand 1.0 : Writing Strategies

Students write coherent and focused texts that convey a well-defined perspective and tightly reasoned argument. The writing demonstrates students’ awareness of the audience and purpose and progression through the stages of the writing process.


Concept : Research and Technology

 
 
Standard:
1.6
Develop presentations by using clear research questions and creative and critical research strategies (e.g., field studies, oral histories, interviews, experiments, electronic sources).

Substrand 2.0 : Writing Applications (Genres and Their Characteristics)

Students combine the rhetorical strategies of narration, exposition, persuasion, and description to produce texts of at least 1,500 words each. Student writing demonstrates a command of standard American English and the research, organizational, and drafting strategies outlined in Writing Standard 1.0.


 
 
Standard:
2.6a
Deliver multimedia presentations that combine text, images, and sound and draw information from many sources (e.g., television broadcasts, videos, films, newspapers, magazines, CD- ROMs, the Internet, electronic media-generated images).

 
 
Standard:
2.6d
Deliver multimedia presentations that test the audience's response and revise the presentation accordingly.

Strand : Listening and Speaking
Substrand 2.0 : Speaking Applications (Genres and Their Characteristics)

Students deliver polished formal and extemporaneous presentations that combine traditional rhetorical strategies of narration, exposition, persuasion, and description. Student speaking demonstrates a command of standard American English and the organizational and delivery strategies outlined in Listening and Speaking Standard 1.0.


 
 
Standard:
2.4a
Deliver multimedia presentations that combine text, images, and sound by incorporating information from a wide range of media, including films, newspapers, magazines, CD-ROMs, online information, television,videos, and electronic media-generated images.

 
 
Standard:
2.4d
Deliver multimedia presentations that test the audience's response and revise the presentation accordingly.

Student Learning Objectives


Activities

  1. * Students will research careers using the Career Cruising Program.
  2. * Students will surf the internets finding Web pages addressing their career selection.
  3. Students will type (using Office 2000 Word)a two page report about their careers.
  4. Students will prepare a PowerPoint 5 to 8 minute presentation addressing their career interest.

Resources


Web Resources
Web Links

http://www.studentzone.org.uk/
http://www.careerwoman2000.com/search.html
http://www.wa.gov/careerguide/v0/career/
http://www.jackson.cc.mi.us/career/ArtandHum.html

Hardware/Software Resources (computers, CD-ROMs, TV, VCR, etc.)
Computers connected to Internet

Projector connected to computer and/or adaptor connecting a computer to a TV.

Office 2000 PowerPoint Program

Office 2000 Word Program

Career Cruising


File Attachments

download the file Portfolio Handbook
  — PORTFOLIO 2001.doc   (2.55 MB)

download the file Career Question
  — Career Questions.doc   (24.5 KB)

download the file Family Jobs
  — FAMILY JOBS.doc   (20.0 KB)

download the file Senior Presentation Evaluation Form
  — SENIOR PRESENTATION EVALUATION FORM.doc   (22.0 KB)

download the file Students Results
  — ctap spreedsheet.xls   (55.5 KB)

download the file Final Career PowerPoint Presentation
  — Ctap PowerPoint With Computer Links.ppt   (882 KB)

download the file Student Sample Advanced
  — LUIS GUILIN MARINE.ppt   (2.21 MB)

download the file Student Sample Proficient
  — MICHEALLE BENITEZ SPEC ED TEACHER.ppt   (397 KB)

download the file Student Sample Basic
  — BERTHA C KINDERGARTEN2.ppt   (82.0 KB)

download the file Student Sample Obstacles
  — Erick K ROLLER COASTER.ppt   (1.07 MB)


Assessment
All student present their presentation at least two different times. The first presentation is presented and graded by a committee of their class mates and teacher. Once the committee determines their is no need for improvment the STUDENT is ready to present for the final time.

The final presentation is presented and graded by an outside committee. This committee consists of one teacher and community members and/or parents.

Each presentation is graded using a Rubric designed to evaluate all levels of the presentation.

All seniors who graduate from Aurora High School must pass the Portfolio Class and other state requirements.
Additional Comments
Career exploring helps the students evaluate a job/career they are interested in pursuing upon graduation.

The final Portfolio prepares the student with job seeking skills need to obtain employment. (e.g. application, resume, etc.)

Presenting this project to an outside committee introduces the student to speaking to a panel of strangers.