WHO WILL WEAR THE HATS? WHO WILL USE THE TOOLS?
Lesson 4
By: Susan C. White, M.Ed. and Gail Lawson, Ph.D.

GRADE LEVEL: Grades 5 -7, Guidance

OBJECTIVES:

1. Students will recognize that there are many different jobs available in our society.
2. Students will continue to explore the concept that all people can, based upon an individual’s natural abilities and interests, select any job regardless of gender.
3. Students will begin to identify their own unique interests and abilities.
4. Students will be encouraged to explore non-traditional jobs.
5. Students will identify and locate resources for assisting in career choice.

 PROCEDURES:

1. Students, working in small, mixed-gender groups, will identify resources available for the identification of career and vocational choices, including traditional resource materials and the Internet.
2. Student groups will identify a short list of career and vocational areas that they wish to explore.
3. After students have made and prioritized their respective selections, they will be collated into a listing. Using this listing, and working collaboratively, the teacher and guidance counselor will identify community resource people that can visit, or be visited, to explain about the selected career/vocational areas.
   
1. Students develop, with the teachers and guidance counselors, a list of questions to be used for interaction and/or development of dialogue with community resource people who visit the school, or to be used in intermission of these resource people if this is the better way to develop information about specific jobs/vocations.
2. If possible, a one-day to one-week shadowing experience may be developed for students to visit work with, and interact with community resource people it practicable, practical, and logistically feasible.

4. Students will identify both men and women who have made contributions to the selected field.
5. Students will develop a group presentation where the information gathered is reported to the entire group.
6. Written reports may also be developed, although it may be more important to look at students’ notes.
7. Teacher/guidance counselor will continue to reinforce the concept that any one can select any career or vocation based upon interest and ability. Concepts of gender equity will continued to be reinforced.

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