Career Exploration: Choosing the Job for You

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Career Exploration Choosing the Job for You

• Sherrie J. Faildo

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Description

• The student explored different career options
  using her personal interests and strengths to
  guide her.

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Purpose

• To explore different career and life options
  available.
• To identify different careers/occupations.
• For the student to identify her personal
  qualities, interests, strengths and abilities.
• To describe different ways people prepare
  themselves for their career.

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Context

• Single subject case study
• 16 year old female with moderate-severe cognitive
  disabilities
• Strengths Able to compose simple sentences when
  given a familiar topic.
• Needs Has difficulty staying on task.

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Context continued

• Fully-self contained special education class
• Curriculum Functional Life Skills Academics

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Professional Development Goals

• What I want to accomplish
• Gain a better understanding of the student.
• Gain more practice in writing a standards based
  unit.

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Goals continued

• Gain more experience in implementing a standards
  based unit.
• Gain insights into how implementing a standards
  based unit would affect the student.

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Artifactsof My Work
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Standards-based Learning Unit

• Go to unit

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Reflections
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Reflection Time Line

• August - September 2001
• October - November 2001
• December 2001 - January 2002
• February 2002

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Artifacts of the Students Work
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Research Paper 1
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Research Paper 2
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Research Paper 3
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The student at work.
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Data

• See data

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Analysis
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What worked

• Focusing on a single student versus teaching the
  unit to the entire class.
• Modifying the unit plan after assessing the
  student.
• Modifying the Career Kokua evaluation.

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What didnt work

• Writing the unit before meeting the students.
• Taking data during the students presentation to
  the class was difficult.
• Bridging the information learned to relevant
  situations in the students life.
• Data sheet may not be a true reflection of what
  the student learned.

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Goals and Outcomes
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Outcomes

• Gain a better understanding of the student.

• Through the implementation of this unit, I got to
  know the student a lot better. I learned about
  her likes and dislikes, as well as what she does
  outside of school.

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Outcomes

• Gain more practice in writing a standards-based
  unit.

• I feel I became more familiar with the process of
  writing a standards unit. However, I still feel
  I need more practice.

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Outcomes

• Gain more experience in implementing a
  standards-based unit.

• I feel I became more familiar with implementing a
  unit. However, implementing another unit will
  allow for more practice and experience.

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Outcomes

• Gain insights into how implementing a
  standards-based unit would benefit the student.

• I felt the student gained a better understanding
  of how her strengths and interests will play a
  role in determining what she will do after high
  school.

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Outcomes

• Gain insights into how implementing a
  standards-based unit would benefit the student.

• The unit also gave the student more opportunities
  to practice her writing skills and it expanded
  her vocabulary.

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Future Directions for my Professional Development
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Future Directions

• This year served as a great introduction and
  helped lay the foundation for the future. I hope
  to use this and apply it to the next unit I write
  and implement.
• For the next unit I write, I hope to use the
  community as the context of the unit. This will
  hopefully be more relevant to real life for the
  students.