Handy Handouts for CTE

This is a career investigations Help Wanted Poster Project that my students loved last year. Students can complete this two-part project independently, with a partner or in a small group. This goes great with Career Investigations Task: Investigate a career within a pathway of inter. Supplies Needed: Planning Handout, White Paper (I used the 11x16 copier paper), Markers, Colored Pencils. This poster can also be completed digitally using MS Word. Bell Work Idea: Have students use the internet

This document can be used with the Career Investigations Competencies/Task listed below: Required: 32 - Explore all of the 16 career clusters Step 1 - Have your student's complete an interest inventory assessment. Step 2 - Have your students use this document to record the results, identify their top three career cluster of interests and begin to explore those three by watching the introduction videos on careeronestop.org and taking down some video notes.

In my 6th grade Career Investigations classes, we complete several group tasks throughout the school year. This handout was created as a resource that I could utilize during any of those activities, assignments, projects or experiences. I would project and review specific instructions using the whiteboard and give each group a copy of this handout. In the beginning of the school year, I review this document, teach the students how to use it and give them some type of group discussion topic. I al

This handout can be used with the following Career Investigations Competencies/Tasks: Required: 34 - Investigate a career within a pathway of interest. Students can use this handout to guide their career research and document their findings.

In Career Investigations, we often discuss new vocabulary prior to or during a lesson. For example, students learn about interest, talents, skills, and values or career, job, occupation, employee and employer. You can have your students brain dump about the vocabulary words to show what they retained from the lesson. I did this brain dump before a quiz. Students took turns sharing and use this as a review. I like offering the option to write or draw to meet the needs of different learners.

This Careers A to Z project can be used in many different ways in a Career Investigations classroom. Students can start the year off by creating a potential list of occupations to explore, students can find careers within a specific cluster, students can explore the Occupation Outlook Handbook. This handout can be printed or posted in an online format. Students can easily follow the step by step directions and sample slides to complete the A to Z PowerPoint. Encourage them to be creative. You ca

This can be used for daily journal prompt or bell work writing tasks for middle school students. This can be used as a two sided handout or you can make a packet by making multiple copies of page two and attaching them to page 1. Then, post your daily writing prompt or daily question on your whiteboard at the start of the period. Students will copy there responses on the handout and keep the handout in their notebooks or folders. I hole punch these for my students to keep in their binders. Stude

As a Career Investigations teacher, I was tasked with bringing math into my classroom. I created math word problems in which students can see exactly how math will play a role in their future careers. On this handout students can write the name of the career from the math word problem and have space to solve the problem and record the answers. Be on the look out for my Math At Work tasks cards. These can be displayed as a daily bell work or bell ringer task.

Fast and Furious Handout 2 was designed for my 6th grade career investigations students. This version includes boxes and instructions for the students. Teachers can post daily prompts on the board in the following categories: -Take a look at the picture on the board. You will see a person working at their place of employment. What occupation do you think they have and why? Tip: Display a picture of someone at work in there profession on the whiteboard -Take a look at the word problem on the boa