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8th 7

th 6

th Grade Advisory Plans

Career Exploration

This Week in Advisory:

This week students will be working on WaytoGoRI. They will specifically be exploring careers using surveys that

the website provides. Students will complete surveys and explore careers that match their results. Students will

also save the careers they like most in their virtual “portfolio.” Students must save at least THREE careers. Steps

on how to navigate the website are provided in the plans.

Routine Reminder:

Students should walk into the meeting area and answer the DAILY NEWS on the board(s), get into their CIRCLE, and listen to the morning announcements. After morning announcements, students GREET each other and then begin to check-in. Mondays are all about the CHECK-IN. It is important to really scaffold students to get them sharing as much as possible. Once each student has had the opportunity to check-in the group may begin the ACTIVITY. 5 minutes before transition, the group may REVIEW the answers on the daily

news board and/or REFLECT on the activity.

Day One

OBJECTIVE: Check in and share out.

Materials Needed: none

Daily News: Name one career that someone you know has that you really find interesting

2.Greeting: Everyone Greets and is greeted (students sit in a circle).

3.Formal Sharing/ Check-in: (8 minutes)

Congratulate students for meeting the last Portfolio Deadline.

Remind students of the Feb. 12th

deadline (4 short weeks away.)

Remind students to work on their Inside Out Project now that proposals have been approved. Projects

are due April 9th

. I suggest writing a notice somewhere in your advisory location and having a countdown

for each deadline.

Have students check-in and share out.

o Ask: How did you spend the four days you had off?

o Who has started working on their Inside Out Projects? “please show me the projects before the

deadline so that I can provide feedback”

o Parent Teacher Conferences are next week so we will only have Advisory on Monday and

Tuesday- how do you feel about conferences this time around?

4. Review Daily News and Discuss: (12 minutes)

Ask the following questions to guide students in reflection:

Who is it? What do they say about their career? Can they come and share it with other students?

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Day Two and Three

Objective: Students will log onto WaytoGoRI and complete career exploration activities.

Materials Needed: chromebooks

Day Two Daily News: Bam! It’s 2035- what career do you have?

Day Three Daily News: What does it take to reach your dream career?

2. Greeting: Everyone Greets and is greeted (students sit in a circle)

3. Formal Sharing/ Check-in: (5 minutes)

4. Activity: WaytoGoRI activity

Discuss your career story with your advisory:

o Share your own career path with your students by discussing the following:

Did you think about careers as a middle schooler? If so, what career did you want to have

as a 12-14 year old?

What did you do after high school?

What did you do after college?

How did you find yourself in the career you have today?

Discuss Career Exploration and it’s benefits with your advisory:

o Ask students careers that currently interest them.

o What subjects in school do you think would be helpful for those careers?

o What are some things you could start doing now to learn more about a certain career?

Show students this infographic (see supporting documents) and review its contents together. Discuss the

benefit of exploring careers now as a middle schools versus waiting to be well into high school.

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Discuss why we use WaytoGoRI

o Explain to students that career exploration is one of the most beneficial features of WaytoGoRI

and it is the reason why the state of Rhode Island invests in the system. Rhode Island wants

students to have the opportunity to have a personal account where they can not only store/track

their goals but also a place where they can explore careers and SAVE careers that they like for

future reference.

Remind students of the ILP component that is due at the next portfolio deadline: 2/12/18 (4 weeks away)

Share with students that today and tomorrow they will be working on WaytoGoRI to complete the

activities that are due on 2/12. Explain to students that they might also have to use personal time to

complete what is due on WaytoGoRI. Below are the steps students take to get to the activities:

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STEP ONE:

After signing in, students should scroll down to the GO TO MY ILP loading bar and click on the blue lettering.

Step TWO:

Once on their page, students should first make sure they are on the correct grade (tab.) Then have them click on

the “ILP #2 Due 2/12” rectangle.

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STEP THREE:

Have students read the instructions in the blue text box (read it as a group if possible.) Ask students if they have

any questions. Once students are ready, have them begin working on the survey assigned to their grade (see steps

4 and 5 for more information on the surveys.) At the end of each survey students will be given a list of careers

that are generated based on how they answer the questions. Tell students that they must reflect on their results

and save at least THREE careers to their portfolio.

STEP FOUR (6th

GRADE): For the Interest Profiler (GRADE 6) students must reflect on their results and press

SAVE. Then they must click on the “Matching Careers” button.

Always press on blue lettering

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STEP FOUR (7th

Grade): For the Career Cluster Survey (GRADE 7) students must save at least one career

cluster by pressing the “ADD TO PORTFOLIO” button. Students must also reflect on their results and press

SAVE. Then they must click on the “VIEW CAREERS IN THIS CLUSTER” button.

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Step 4 (8th

Grade): For the Basic Skills Survey (GRADE 8) students must save at least three careers. To access

their list they must press the “Review Matching Careers” blue lettering

Step 5: Save careers by looking through the list and clicking on a career that interest you. When you click on the

career title it will take you to the Career Description Page. There you can learn more about the career. If you

like it press the “ADD TO PORTFOLIO” button:

Oooh, what’s a Director of

Player Operations? Let me click

on the title to learn more!

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5. Review Daily Quote and Discuss:

Guide students in reflection:

Why are you interested in that career?

How can I help you get started on researching that career more?

Here are links to other career exploration websites:

o https://www.bls.gov/k12/content/students/careers/career-exploration.htm

o https://www.bls.gov/ooh/

o https://www.usa.gov/healthcare-careers#item-213556

Here I can read all about this career, if

I like it, I will save it to my portfolio

(see red arrow to the left)

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