Smart Options

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Smart Options Middle School Smart Options
Plus High School and Post-Secondary
Career exploration based on Multiple Intelligences
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• Theory
• Howard Gardner, 1983 Frames of the Mind The
  Theory of Multiple Intelligences
• Functionality, utility or value of behavior to
  society
• Brain organization brain injuries
• Exceptional people 1 area, underdeveloped in
  others
• Thomas Armstrong, 1993, 7 Kinds of Smart
  Identifying and Developing Your Many
  Intelligences
• Daniel Goleman, 1995, Emotional Intelligence

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Gardner Armstrong Intelligence Smart Bodily-k
inesthetic Body Interpersonal (IE) People
(IE) Intrapersonal (IE) Self
(IE) Linguistic Word Logical-mathematica
l Logic Musical Music Naturalist Nat
ure Spatial Picture
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• Daniel Goleman
• Emotional Intelligence
• Core Components
• Self-awareness knowing what youre feeling
• Empathy knowing what others are feeling
• Managing your moods controlling impulses
• Persistence staying motivated during difficult
  circumstances
• Social skills leading others, mediating and
  negotiating

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• Guiding Principles
• Intelligence is pluralistic and multi-dimensional
• Multiple intelligences (MIs) are inherent in all
  people
• MIs can be identified and described
• MIs can be developed and strengthened
• Everyone has a unique mix of MIs
• Everyone is entitled to recognize, express and
  cultivate her/his MIs
• MIs constantly interact in out motivation,
  attitudes and behavior
• Knowledge of ones MIs enhances self-esteem and
  self-confidence
• Knowledge of ones MIs stimulates self-direction
  and self-reliance
• MIs are good bases for exploring life and work
  options

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• Step One (5)
• Your Smarts
• Objectives
• Introduce participants to multiple intelligences
  and help them assess their smart
• 1 to 1½ hours
• Activities
• Discuss changes in the world of work
• Explore the concept of intelligence
• Introduce the 8 smarts
• Participants assess their smarts

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• Step Two (20)
• Thinking Smart
• Objectives
• Increase familiarity with smarts and explore
  their role in work settings
• 1 to 1½ hours
• Activities
• Identify the main and secondary smarts in job
  examples
• Identify the relevance of specific smart in
  example jobs
• Explore smarts and life choices

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• Step Three (26)
• Working Your Smarts
• Objectives
• Help participants generate their Smarts Profiles
  and research potential careers using their
  profiles
• 1 to 1½ hours (additional research time by
  participants)
• Activities
• Participants create their Smarts Profiles
• Identifying possible career paths based on smarts
• Converting occupational profiles to smart
  profiles

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• Step Four (31)
• Building Your Smarts
• Objectives
• Participants learn that awareness of smarts
  enhances employability and capacity to adapt in
  all aspects of life
• Participants learn that smarts can be developed
  and strengthened
• ½ to 1 hour
• Activities
• Discuss advantages of seeing oneself in terms of
  smarts
• Review strategies for building smarts

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• Step Five (41)
• Smart Resumes
• Objectives
• Participants learn how to create resumes that
  show they have the smarts, the skills, the
  knowledge and the ability to perform the job.
• ½ to 1 hour
• Activities
• Developing a Smart File
• Targeted resumes
• Bringing values
• The Cover Letter

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• Step Six (49)
• Smart Interviews
• Objectives
• Participants learn how to prepare for a smart and
  successful interview
• ½ to 1 hour
• Activities
• Discuss the outcomes and objectives of employment
  interviews
• Preparing for the interview
• Tips for performing well during the interview
• Follow-up after the interview
• Tips for building a network

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Prices Smart Options Smart Options Plus Grade
6-8 Grade 9 Post-seconadry Facilitators
Guide Facilitators Guide 14.95 each 14.95
each Students Resource Participants Smart
Book Book 4.00 each 3.00 each For more
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