Enrich 21st Century Skills

Career Challenge

Curriculum Objectives

1) Identify interests & enthusiasms2) Determine employability3) Explore personal qualities & personality traits4) Select a few career options5) Consider what courses and activities needed

to pursue career options6) Explore career options through shadowing

Career Challenge Program Components

USA TODAYNewspapers

Career ChallengeWorkbooks

education.usastoday.com

Value of USA TODAY

Exclusive features & investigative reports

Clear & concise style

High-interest

Color photos

Students will:• Reflect on their own

strengths and interests

• Learn of the

successes and failures of today’s businesspeople

• Understand career/job trends

• Become aware of the globalized economy

• Explore business news/stock market

Career Challenge:

For Students:

The Career Challenge Program

The Power of “Written” GoalsHarvard Study - 1953 MBA graduating class interviews

determined that:

Beliefs vs. action• 70% believed goals were important to success.• 10% had goals.• 3% had a “written” plan to achieve goals.

•Source: Dr. David McCellan, Harvard Business School

Results• 30 years later, in 1983, the 3% that had “written”

plans to achieve goals had more income and net worth than the other 97% combined.

• 2 years later, in 1985, MIT found that the 3% with a “written” plan had four times the net worth of the other 97% combined.

Lessons

Addresses Career Standards

• Apply knowledge of personal interests, abilities, values

• Develop knowledge of relationship between educational attainment to career opportunities

• Understand the relationship between work and learning

• Develop skills to locate and use sources of career information

• Understand the process of career planning

• Encourages sustained reading and higher-order thinking

• Weekly cross curricular activity.

• Content-specific student graphic organizer

Features of Inside USA TODAY

• News resources

• Lesson Plan archives

• Special interest

• Lessons by core subject

• Career education

• Event features

• Case Studies

• Project-based learning

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