11. Money, Paying for Your Career (25-30 min.)

Paying for Your Career Training and Education, a look at the agencies and programs that provide financial and career planning support to students who are interested in CTE Pathways.

Prior to the Activity print or prepare the following posters or flyers: Posters of various CTE Pathways Career Clusters (Hexagon)
Copies of Handouts:
- Cost of 1,2,4 or more bookmarks 124 Bookmarks (utah.gov)
- Preparing Students for College and Career Brochure Preparing Student for College and Career (utah.gov)
- Information on CTE Scholarships Financial Aid
- Contact Information on Vocational Rehabilitation Services at your school
Slide deck Paying for Your Career Pathway, slides 2-5
Slides 2-5:
- Visit the DSD-WBL website
  - Read about the support and services they provide
  - Scroll down and watch the video on Internships.
  - Click on link for FAQs about Internships: FAQ.pdf (finalsite.net)
- Visit the DSD-Concurrent Enrollment website:
  - How to Pay for further training, programs, and/or college
- CTE Scholarships and Tuition Awards https://youtu.be/dJW61Gxl9nc
Visit the Student Transition Services at the Vocational Rehabilitation website and learn about their services: Overview (utah.gov)
Watch the video about what they have to offer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkWQzVoKM8A
Discuss and respond to questions. Clarify content.
Follow-up activities:
- Talk to your parents or guardian about your career plans and goals.
- Apply for WBL Internship.
- Talk to your counselor or CTE Coordinator about CE courses in your Pathway.
- Make an appointment with Vocational Rehabilitation to discuss your IEP goals, accommodations and future school and training needs.

High School 11-12 Grades

12. Using Career Maps

Use state and district sites to explore CTE careers and courses available in high school

Slide deck containing most of the links, plus some teacher talk
Video What is CTE What is CTE
Respond to question: What does CTE stand for?
Reason-- maps or plans are important -- CTE Success Videos
Pathways Activity, explore Davis School District Career Pathways CTE Career Pathways (utah.gov)
Explore school specific courses
Choose a career pathway or two.

14. Site Search Exploring Careers: YouScience

Students use online websites to explore careers, including tasks, skills, income, and education requirements.

· Introductory Videos for YouScience, an aptitude, interest, career exploration site and college information that the district is rolling out, sort of one stop shopping. What is YouScience? from YouScience on Vimeo The Problem YouScience Solves from YouScience on Vimeo

· Slide deck with videos. Exploring Careers

· If students have not completed their Summit Assessment, it can be assigned as homework a week or so before class. YouScience does not absolutely need to be proctored but remind students that they must take the assessments seriously to get a result that truly reflects their talents and interests. They can break it up into several shorter sessions if they need to.

· Have students log into their YouScience account and research one of their Aptitude, Interest or Overall career suggestions. Research one of their career interests and write down what they found, including description, salary, job outlook, characteristics, etc.

· Record on worksheet

· OR-- Briefly show the students each of these sites and how to navigate. Have students look at three free sites where they can look up careers, to see what information each site offers. Searches can be specified for Utah or Salt Lake City area. All three use the same database, just in a different format. Launch My Career is from Utah Futures and focuses on Utah colleges and job demand.

o Explore Careers | CareerOneStop

o O*NET OnLine (onetonline.org)

· Have students write a quick review of each site, what they liked about the site, what they did not, or how each site is unique.

· Research one of their career interests and write down what they found, including description, salary, job outlook, characteristics, etc.

· Discuss what they found.

15. Jobs versus Careers

Students work in small groups to brainstorm differences between a job and a career.

· Slide deck with content notes. Jobs vs Careers.pptx

· The Point: Individuals can change jobs without changing careers. Over the span of their career, a person will normally have several jobs within the same career.

· Jobs are usually short-term position to earn money, without much planning, or expectation of advancement or benefits. Hours tend to be random.

· Do you want a McJob or a satisfying career?

16. "Don't Leave it to Chance" game, planning is important

An activity about the importance of making choices and following a plan to get what you want instead of letting others decide for you.

· "Don't leave it to Chance" Game Directions and Handout

· Career Cards demographics based on Career One Stop.org, accessed 2022. Print from PowerPoint on cardstock as two slides to a page, single sided, 26 cards when cut apart.

· "Don't Leave it to Chance" Cards.pptx

· Can be followed up with some career research through YouScience or on the federal or state career search sites.

17. Removing Barriers

Changing mindset and finding resources to remove barriers to a profitable career.

· I Am…But…I Am Not, how stereotypes limit access to good paying jobs I am, but I am not barriers.docx

· Removing Barriers slide deck, accessing district opportunities, like Work-based Learning, Concurrent Enrollment, Catalyst Center, Davis Technical College while in high school, including CTE Career Coaches resource page with community partnerships Removing Barriers pptx

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