Using Career Cruising Class Lesson

This week in 8th grade students are completing the final Career Cruising activity.  Last month students completed the career interest inventory and selected three careers they were interested in learning more about.  This week students selected one of the three to research using the following questions.

USING CAREER CRUISING

What career are you most interested in learning more about?

What 3 or more tasks do people in that career perform most regularly?

TRAINING

What type of training does the job require?

What schools offer that type of training?

How long is the training program?

What is the annual cost of attending the training program?

JOB SPECIFICS

What do you like most about the working conditions?

What concerns do you have about the working conditions?

What 5 aspects of the career fit you?

What 3 aspects don’t fit you?

What is the salary range?

What factors influence the salary (cause it to increase or decrease)?

What is the starting salary?

Who do you know who can tell you more about this career?  What are 5 questions you should ask him/her?

What technology does the career require?

How will this career require you to work with others?

 

PREPARATION

What core classes help prepare you for that career?

What high school elective classes will help prepare you for that career?

What is Bullying and What Do We Do About It?

This week in 7th grade classroom guidance Mrs. Zell and Dr. Deane talked with the students about bullying.  Bullying is something we hear and read a lot about, but the term is used very loosely.  What exactly is bullying and what steps do we take as a middle school to address the issue once we are made aware?

Bullying Defined

At its essence bullying is when one or more people repeatedly harm, harass, intimidate, or exclude others. Bullying is also one-sided.

 Bullying Accusation Process

1.     Once a report of bullying has been made, the counselors are asked to speak with the students involved to determine if bullying is truly taking place.  In instances where charges of bullying are the result of a two-sided disagreement, mediation is done and conflict management strategies are discussed.

2.     If bullying is happening, the counselors review the consequences of what will happen if the problem continues in an effort to change behavior.  Four out of five times this resolves the situation.  Counselors also periodically check in with the student being bullied to make sure the problem is resolved.  Records are kept to see repeat offenders and patterns of behavior.

3.     If the bully continues, the appropriate grade level administrator is involved.  Administrators determine the appropriate consequence based on the severity of offense, previous behaviors, and actions taken up to this point.

Bullying Consequences

1. In-School Suspension
2. Out of School Suspension
3. Expulsion

Bullying Bystander Strategies

1.     Distract the person who is teasing or bullying someone else.

2.     Support the person who is being teased or bullied privately.

3.     Discourage teasing or bullying behavior by not joining in.

4.     Support the person who is being teased or bullied openly.

5.     Report bullying behavior to an adult for help and support.

Career Cruising Overview

Career Cruising helps students by providing career profiles written in student-friendly language, to multimedia video content, digital learning games and a modern, intuitive interface, Career Cruising engages students to learn about themselves, explore their options, create a plan, and bring that plan to life. And because it’s intuitive, rather than showing students how to use our software, teachers, counselors and administrators are freed up to focus on the things that matter.

 

Building Self-awareness

Activities, lessons, assessments and inventories to build self-awareness are integral to Career Cruising. These tools help students learn about themselves and begin to identify their personal strengths—important steps in creating plans for career and life.

Personalized K-12 Portfolio

Creating a plan starts with a personalized portfolio students can use to store valuable information: lessons they’re working on, personal inventories, assessment results, career matches, educational options and scholarship applications. This portfolio grows and evolves into an individual learning plan that helps transform career exploration into concrete plans for the future.

Personalized Pathways 

Every student is unique - why not their pathways? By encouraging students to identify and follow their own personal pathway – be it 4-year university, 2-year college or some other pathway, all students are encouraged to choose the path best suited to their individual interests, skills and abilities.