California Career Resource Network California Department of Education Professional Learning Series The following is a transcript for the video, An Introduction to the Career and College Readiness Lesson Plan Series. [Music] Welcome to the California Department of Education s professional learning series brought to you by the California Career Resource Network, or CalCRN, program. The CalCRN program provides lessons and other resources for teachers to support California s students in creating a personalized Career Action Plan for pursuing a career of their choosing. This video introduces you to the Career and College Readiness Lesson Plan Series. For an overview of each grade level, visit the CalCRN Web site, select Training Videos, then select the grade level you are interested in exploring. This video, An Introduction to the Career and College Readiness Lesson Plan Series, includes an overview of [Topics to be covered] the Grades 5 12 Lesson Plan Series; purpose and goal of the Lesson Plan Series; the lesson plans; setting up California CareerZone student accounts; setting up California Career Center student accounts; the Career Action Plan template; and wrap up. The Career and College Readiness Lesson Plan Series provides a set of ageappropriate lessons for grades five through twelve and can be used in sequence or as standalone lessons. There are 45 lesson plans with 5 or 6 lessons per grade. These lessons provide California educators with a key tool for implementing and incorporating critical career and college readiness knowledge and skills development into their classroom instruction. [Image: CalCRN Web site homepage] The Lesson Plan Series is posted on the CalCRN Web site at www.californiacareers.info under the Lessons tab. [Purpose and Goals] This series was developed to support outcomes that enable students to: identify career goals and occupational options; describe postsecondary education and training options;
understand the role that interests and values play in career selection; understand the financial implications of career decisions, including the cost of education and training in relation to specific career goals; and possess an initial postsecondary Career Action Plan. The ultimate goal of the lesson plan series is to ensure California s students graduate high school with a personalized Career Action Plan in hand so that after commencement, students know what they need to do next. [Core Career Development Topics] As students work to develop their career goals, they will complete lessons that focus on the following four core career development topics: Self-knowledge Who am I? Career Exploration Where am I going? Career Planning How to I get there? and 21 st Century Skills How do I succeed? The Self-knowledge lessons help students address the question: Who am I? The lessons focus on building students understanding of their interests, values, and skills through assessments and activities that help them reflect and learn how these relate to identifying career goals. The Career Exploration lessons help students address the question: Where am I going? These lessons focus on conducting research to explore careers and occupational options, understanding the labor market, and learning how labor market information can influence career choices. The Career Planning lessons help students address the question, How do I get there? The lessons focus on understanding requirements for postsecondary options including the military, skilled trades, and college. Answering How do I get there? comes by developing a high school plan and ultimately creating a viable postsecondary plan, called the Career Action Plan. The Career Action Plan identifies initial career goals and conveys an understanding of the steps necessary to achieve those goals. The 21st Century Skills lessons help students address the question, How do I succeed? These lessons focus on helping students identify essential workplace skills, workplace safety practices, financial literacy skills, media literacy, and technology skills for the 21 st Century workplace. Let s take a look at the Lesson Plans page on the CalCRN Web site. On the Web site, select the Lessons tab. [Image: Lesson Plans Web page] The Lesson Plans page contains everything you need to implement the lessons with your students. An Introduction to the Career and College Readiness Lesson Plan Series video transcript p 2 of 5
Here you will find a variety of resources including the Educator Guide, Lesson Plans Content Overview, Introduction to the Start-Up Videos, Career Readiness Glossary, and instructions for setting up the student accounts. The lesson plans are organized by grade level but most can be used in a variety of grades. Notice that the lesson handouts are posted separately in English and Spanish. [Image: A lesson plan] Every lesson plan includes learning outcomes, language objectives, standards alignment; a list of materials and resources including student handouts, account setup instructions; academic vocabulary; and activity description, getting ready instructions, and detailed lesson procedures. [Image: Start-up screen for the video Matchmaking Interests and Careers] Every lesson plan has a start-up video which introduces students to the content in an engaging way. Let s preview one of the grade nine start-up videos, Matchmaking: Interests and Careers: [Begin video] Matchmaking: Interests and Careers is part of the Career and College Readiness Lesson Plan series provided by the California Career Resource Network, California Department of Education. In this lesson, you ll learn to match your interests with career options and start a Career Action Plan. How do your interests help you find a good career match? By comparing your interests with potential occupations, you'll quickly narrow down what kinds of jobs do you and don't like. For example, if you like being active, you probably won t be happy sitting all day. So occupations that require sitting all day are probably not for you. Or, if you enjoy quiet places, you probably won t be at your best in a noisy setting. So occupations in noisy places are probably not for you. After matching your interests with occupations so you know what direction you want to go, you can begin developing your career action plan. So let s get started! An Introduction to the Career and College Readiness Lesson Plan Series video transcript p 3 of 5
This lesson and other resources are available on the California Career Resource Network s Web site, www.californiacareers.info. [End video] [Image: CalCRN homepage] Matchmaking: Interests and Careers is one of the lesson plans where students use the CalCRN resource, the California CareerZone. [Image: California CareerZone Web site homepage] You can access the California CareerZone by going to www.cacareerzone.org. In order to use this Web-based career exploration system to its fullest extent, each student will need to create a CareerZone student account. [Image: Lesson Plans Web page] Instructor notes and steps to set up a CareerZone student account are in the Lesson Plans Accompanying Resources section on the Lesson Plans page on the CalCRN Web site are also included in the relevant lesson plans. [Image: CareerZone homepage] Creating a student account is fast and easy. Students select Register Now! on the CareerZone home page and [Image: Sign In or Create an Account form] then fill in the required fields. Students can complete some of the activities on the CareerZone without having an account. However, an account is necessary to save and retrieve assessments results and occupational research. Because career and college planning is an ongoing process, having students save their work means they will be able to access it for another class or at a later date. [Image: CalCRN homepage] Additional support for setting up student accounts is available by viewing the CareerZone overview video on the Training Videos Web page on the CalCRN Web site. [Image: Career Center Web site homepage] Students will also need to set up a student account on the California Career Center Web site. The California Career Center is a comprehensive virtual counselor with career and college resources and tools to help students begin their career journey. You can access the Web site by going to www.calcareercenter.org. To set up an account, direct students to the My Stuff tab in the Career Center s top navigation bar. In the dropdown menu, click on Profile. [Image: account sign-up form] Students complete the fields and submit. It s that easy! Like the CareerZone, students can complete some of the activities on the Career Center without having an account. However, an account is necessary to save and retrieve students research and career and college plans. As with the CareerZone, instructor notes and steps to set up a career account for the Career Center are in the Lesson Plans Accompanying Resources section on the CalCRN Lesson Plans page. They are also included in relevant lesson plans. An Introduction to the Career and College Readiness Lesson Plan Series video transcript p 4 of 5
[Image: CalCRN homepage] Additional support for setting up student accounts is available by viewing the California Career Center overview video on the Training Videos Web page on the CalCRN Web site. [Image: Lesson Plans Web page] This lesson plan series enables educators to provide students with the knowledge and experiences necessary to develop a viable Career Action Plan for high school and postsecondary success. A Career Action Plan is an individualized plan students use to identify career goals and describe the steps necessary to pursue those goals. Having a Career Action Plan can promote a variety of positive student outcomes that impact school and career success including improved academic motivation, engagement, decision-making, and personal accountability. The Career Action Plan template is accessed through the My Stuff dropdown menu on the Career Center. [Image: Career Center Career Action Plan Web page] Plans are dynamic documents that are updated regularly as students refine their educational and career goals as they proceed through the lesson series. Once students have established a My Stuff account, they can create, save, and revise their plans in an ongoing process of development. This and all CalCRN training videos and Career and College Readiness resources are available on the CalCRN Web site at www.californiacareers.info. An Introduction to the Career and College Readiness Lesson Plan Series video transcript p 5 of 5