career_worksheet_1_form_final.pdfCareer Ed is taught at varying times through the year. I use two broad unit activities for instruction. The first is a series of smaller activities learning about the nature of careers and connecting to an investigation of personal attributes. The second is a simulation activity that will take a couple of months to complete. That will occur in the spring. Look for detailed descriptions of topics and activities here as they occur in the classroom.
Simulation Activity
This challenging and multifaceted project will be completed, partly alone and partly with a partner. The simulation will develop by stage. Each stage in meant to engage students in looking at how life and career choices blend and that opportunities and limitations are part of career selection. Individual activities will include the following. As they're assigned, links will appear here.
Phase One - Career Investigation
Worksheet #1 - this is a duplicate of the handout in class. You will submit a completed copy once you have completed the online assessments and research.
Job Information - use this Gov't of Canada site to search for many of the facts needed to understand a career. It includes salaries, job descriptions and educational requirements. Use Saskatoon as the geographical base. If there are no listings for Saskatoon, expand the search to Saskatchewan. Still no luck? You can then expand it Canada wide. Use prairie provinces info before that from BC or Ontario.
Job List Document - very handy and up to date list of careers with information on pay, training and future prospects for Saskatchewan.
Online Career Tests
Career Test #1 Personality - are you introverted or extroverted? A feeler or a thinker? This assessment fits your personality to a career type based on a Myers-Briggs assessment. Answer the questions and record the four letter result. Go to the links below for careers that align to that personality type.
Career Test #2 Your Abilities - This quiz works to discover what you can actually do. It recommends career paths that suit your skills.
Phase Two - Financial Management: Income Statement
Worksheet #3 - this document is completed as you proceed step by step through its completion. Do so neatly and in pen. The link is to a duplicate for printing at home if needed. If working with an assigned partner, be sure to include both after tax incomes. Ask when uncertain.
Accommodations
You can rent or buy. Renting is simply paying month to month. If you buy, you need a loan called a mortgage.
Realtor.ca - use to search for houses in the Saskatoon area
Kijiji Saskatoon - use this site to search for rental property
Mortgage Calculator - use the following criteria
Transportation
You may by new or used. One of the two vehicles must accommodate two children. You will calculate the monthly cost using the financial calculator. There are more options than listed here including using many manufacturer's build and buy online tools. For example, if you want a Toyota Sienna van, you can build it on their website.
Autotrader.ca - choose Saskatoon, 250km
Kijiji Saskatoon - a good alternative for a used vehicle
Manufacturers Sites - nearly all manufacturers have a page where you can price vehicles using a building tool. Here are a few. You can search for your favourite brand.
Finance Costs
Finance Calculator - most people use some kind of loan to pay for their vehicle over a period of years. Use the link and follow these steps.
Insurance
Basic Insurance Costs - All vehicles in Saskatchewan require insurance. In this province, basic insurance is provided by SGI. Use this tool to locate your vehicles and its plate costs.
Food Budget Planning - you need to prepare a two week menu plan using the handout. We will later go "shopping" at a grocery store to price your choices.
Simulation Activity
This challenging and multifaceted project will be completed, partly alone and partly with a partner. The simulation will develop by stage. Each stage in meant to engage students in looking at how life and career choices blend and that opportunities and limitations are part of career selection. Individual activities will include the following. As they're assigned, links will appear here.
- Career selection based on thorough research that includes prerequisites, personal attributes required, salary etc. Students need to clearly justify their choices. Selections may be may be rejected. E.g. students can't choose engineering if they have been unsuccessful in math. Also, no pro athletes.
- Income Statement - after all other sections are completed, an income statement, post federal and provincial tax calculation, must be completed. No net losses are allowed.
- Selection of accommodations - partners use online sources to find accommodation. If renting, current averages will be provided. If choosing home ownership, students will use MLS services and a mortgage calculator to determine monthly costs
- Develop a two week food plan, shop and cost it. We will go to a local grocery store as part of this step
- Use online tools to purchase and finance a vehicle using current bank rates
- Budget for a collection of incidental living expenses including clothing, utilities, entertainment, savings
Phase One - Career Investigation
Worksheet #1 - this is a duplicate of the handout in class. You will submit a completed copy once you have completed the online assessments and research.
Job Information - use this Gov't of Canada site to search for many of the facts needed to understand a career. It includes salaries, job descriptions and educational requirements. Use Saskatoon as the geographical base. If there are no listings for Saskatoon, expand the search to Saskatchewan. Still no luck? You can then expand it Canada wide. Use prairie provinces info before that from BC or Ontario.
Job List Document - very handy and up to date list of careers with information on pay, training and future prospects for Saskatchewan.
Online Career Tests
Career Test #1 Personality - are you introverted or extroverted? A feeler or a thinker? This assessment fits your personality to a career type based on a Myers-Briggs assessment. Answer the questions and record the four letter result. Go to the links below for careers that align to that personality type.
Career Test #2 Your Abilities - This quiz works to discover what you can actually do. It recommends career paths that suit your skills.
Phase Two - Financial Management: Income Statement
Worksheet #3 - this document is completed as you proceed step by step through its completion. Do so neatly and in pen. The link is to a duplicate for printing at home if needed. If working with an assigned partner, be sure to include both after tax incomes. Ask when uncertain.
Accommodations
You can rent or buy. Renting is simply paying month to month. If you buy, you need a loan called a mortgage.
Realtor.ca - use to search for houses in the Saskatoon area
Kijiji Saskatoon - use this site to search for rental property
Mortgage Calculator - use the following criteria
- Enter the purchase price of the house.
- Amortization (how low it takes to pay it off) use 25 years.
- Payment frequency = monthly.
- Under "Product" scroll down and select 5 year closed.
- Look to the right and record the monthly amount. The annual total will be that times 12.
- Property taxes, money paid to the city for services such as garbage collection, is usually in the listing. If it isn't, come see me for help.
Transportation
You may by new or used. One of the two vehicles must accommodate two children. You will calculate the monthly cost using the financial calculator. There are more options than listed here including using many manufacturer's build and buy online tools. For example, if you want a Toyota Sienna van, you can build it on their website.
Autotrader.ca - choose Saskatoon, 250km
Kijiji Saskatoon - a good alternative for a used vehicle
Manufacturers Sites - nearly all manufacturers have a page where you can price vehicles using a building tool. Here are a few. You can search for your favourite brand.
Finance Costs
Finance Calculator - most people use some kind of loan to pay for their vehicle over a period of years. Use the link and follow these steps.
- Input the price
- Skip down to duration. Use 60 months
- Set tax at 11%
- Use 4.5% as the interest rate. The monthly payment will be listed. Take that number and multiply it by 12 to get the annual amount.
Insurance
Basic Insurance Costs - All vehicles in Saskatchewan require insurance. In this province, basic insurance is provided by SGI. Use this tool to locate your vehicles and its plate costs.
Food Budget Planning - you need to prepare a two week menu plan using the handout. We will later go "shopping" at a grocery store to price your choices.
PAA
Practical and Applied Arts is a generally integrated set of activities focused on skills that support or enhance learning. Next year, during Gr. 8, PAA is more formalized. Students take weekly trips off site based on one of two options. This year, I will focus on two broad categories.
- Integration of technology. Students will learn how to use cloud storage for sharing and collaboration as well specific features of Microsoft tools including Word, PowerPoint and Excel. This school year, students will be required to produce polished written compositions using Word templates, deliver individual and group presentations using PowerPoint and build graphs using Excel. I plan to do some coding as well, time permitting. It teaches algorithmic thinking and it's actually quite fun. My hope is to improve mathematical thinking as a benefit.
- Television production. This winter, all students will participate in the Telemedia program producing both an interview and television commercial at our studio.
Note that all SPSD students have the right to up to five installs of the full MS Office suite for home use. I will walk students through the process.
PSA Activity
Students are creating a public service announcement from a broad selection of options. Format can be as audio (radio spot) or video (e.g. TV or Youtube). All aspects, composition, technical and performance must be done by the group members.
Brickfilm Activity for Non-band students
MS Word Activity
PSA Activity
Students are creating a public service announcement from a broad selection of options. Format can be as audio (radio spot) or video (e.g. TV or Youtube). All aspects, composition, technical and performance must be done by the group members.
- Organizer handout duplicate
Brickfilm Activity for Non-band students
- storyboard - this is a form. You can print it for handwriting or type into it directly. Download the first copy and save each page as a different name. e.g. brickfilm1, brickfilm2
MS Word Activity