Who Works at Your School? |
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Students will recognize characteristics that various
categories of school workers have in
common. |
Primary Learning Outcomes
What are the characteristics that school workers have in
common? What do their jobs entail?
Additional Learning Outcomes
Assessed QCC Standards:
Grade: 6
Guidance
B. Educational and Occupational Exploration
4
Topic: Knowledge
of the benefits of educational achievement to career opportunities.
Standard: Describe the importance of
academic and occupational skills in the work world. Identify how the skills
taught in school subjects are used in various occupations. Describe individual
strengths and weaknesses in school subjects. Describe a plan of action for
increasing basic educational skills. Describe the skills needed to adjust to
changing occupational requirements. Describe how continued learning enhances the
ability to achieve goals. Describe how skills relate to the selection of high
school courses of study. Describe how aptitudes and abilities relate to broad
occupational groups.
6
Topic: Skills to
locate, understand, and use career information.
Standard: Identify various ways that
occupations can be classified. Identify a number of occupational groups for
exploration. Demonstrate skills in using school and community resources to learn
about occupational groups. Identify sources to obtain information about
occupational groups including self-employment. Identify skills that are
transferable from one occupation to another. Identify sources of employment in
the community.
Procedures/Activities
Step:
1 Duration: 5 min.
Have students make a list of different jobs in the school.
Discuss the school as a work setting.
Step:
2 Duration: 10 min.
Discuss characteristics of school workers (e.g., skills,
attitudes). Discuss similarities of characteristics of school workers.
Step: 3 Duration: 15 min.
Discuss how the work setting changes a job (e.g., food service
in school or in a restaurant, teaching in school or in a business). Discuss how
work for men and women is similar or different within the school.
Materials and Equipment
Chalkboard/chalk
Standards (Local and/or National)
Total Duration
30 min.
Technology Connection
Assessment
Students' participation in the activity will be
evaluated.
Extension
Remediation
Accommodation
Modification
For students with significant disabilities, what changes can
be made in instruction and teaching delivery to allow students to participate in
classroom instruction while working on IEP objectives and off grade level QCC
standards. Below are suggested modifications correlated to the procedures of
this lesson plan.
