WHAT I DO BEST:A Kindergarten Career Development Lesson
Presented by Jennifer FrederickSope Creek Elementary Professional School Counselor
A: Students will acquire the skills to investigate the world of work in relation to knowledge of self and to make informed career decisions.
B: Students will employ strategies to achieve future career goals with success and satisfaction.
C: Students will understand the relationship between personal qualities, education, and training and the world of work.
ASCA Standards:
Competencies:C:A1.3 TSW develop an awareness of personal abilities, skills and
interests. C:B1.2 TSW identify personal skills, interests, and abilities and relate
them to career choice. C:C1.3 TSW identify personal preferences and interests influencing
career choice and success. C:C2.1 TSW demonstrate how interests, abilities, and achievement
relate to achieving personal, social, and education and career goals.
Essential Questions:
What Do I Do Best?
How can that connect to careers?
Lesson Materials:
Personal items to show what I do best. (I include my favorite things like a running shoe, knitting needles, books, games, puppets, pictures of my family, a cooking item, etc).
• What I Do Best, by Allia Nolan
• butcher paper and markers
• What I Do Best handout
Activities:
Activating StrategyShare the items I’ve brought and why?
Teaching StrategiesDiscussion of $, wants and needs, community helpersRead the storyBrainstorm a web of ideas
Evaluation What I Do Best handout
Evaluation:
Name____________________________________
Write a sentence and draw a picture of what you do best.
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