| SCHOOL TO CAREER
By: Michelle Grilli-Royal
STANDARD:
- All students will be able to identify career areas which are nontraditional for their
gender.
- All students will be able to explain the effects of gender bias, stereotyping and
discrimination on access, learning, self-esteem, relationships and behavior.
GRADE LEVEL: 9-12, Career Guidance
OBJECTIVE(S):
- Students will gain basic as well as high-level technical competence through challenging
work internships or job shadowing in non-traditional jobs.
- Students will gain awareness through experimentation of their own talents and
inclinations of the opportunities in the workplace through non-traditional careers.
TIME: 1/2-1 school day minimum, weekly or bi-weekly
MATERIALS: Participating companies in your local areas.
PROCEDURES:
- Students research a career that may be non-traditional for their gender for which they
may want to pursue.
- Students job shadow in the workplace.
- Students partake in subsidized employment training, planning, performing, and evaluating
complex tasks on the job.
- Students can investigate and evaluate gender bias, stereotyping and discrimination, if
any, on the job site.
- Students can present an oral presentation to their classmates about their experiences of
their project as well as their overall evaluation of the activities that took place on the
job.
INTEGRATION: School based learning through multiple connections between
school and the career choices and to relate the relationships among them.
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