Life Beyond High 11th Grade-Special

Title of Unit Grade Level

School Education Students
Four Lessons-
1st- 55 minutes
ASD Life Skills Class 2nd-55 minutes
Curriculum Area Time Frame
3rd- 55 minutes
4th- 55 minutes

Developed By Michelle Fale-Lampkin

AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner
1.1.4. Find, evaluate, and select appropriate sources to answer questions.

1.1.1. Follow an inquiry-based process in seeking knowledge in curricular subjects, and make the real
world connection for using this process in own life

1.1.6. Read, view, and listen for information presented in any format (e.g., textual, visual, media,
digital) in order to make inferences and gather meaning.

2.1.4. Use technology and other information tools to analyze and organize information.

2.1.6. Use the writing process, media and visual literacy, and technology skills to create products
that express new understandings.

2.1.5. Collaborate with others to exchange ideas, develop new understandings, make decisions,
and solve problems.

3.1.5. Connect learning to community issues.

3.1.6. Use information and technology ethically and responsibly.

LESSON 1
Understandings
Essential Questions
Overarching Understanding

There are basically two types of goals – long-term and What is a goal?
short-term goals
What is a long-term goal? What is a short-term goal?
In order to define long-term goals, you need a vision of
where you want to be in the future Why are some goals important?
The jobs and occupations you have throughout your
life is your career

Knowledge Skills
Students will know… Students will be able to…

 that goals need to be personal and realistic.

 document their goals on a poster.
 the importance of having one.
 explain their goal(s) in life by presenting their
 that you need a vision before defining long- poster to the class.
term goals,

Teacher Will

What is a goal?

What is a short-term goal?

What is a long-term goal?

Give examples of each- we will not go further will short term goals in this unit.

Have students close their eyes. Tell them to picture themselves walking across the
stage and receiving their diploma. Wait a second and then ask them What comes
next? Open your eyes. Where do you see yourself after you graduate?

Since long-term goals will be important in setting a direction for your career, it is
important to define them as early as possible. But, in order to define long-term
OPENING goals, you need a vision of where you want to be in the future. Your vision will be
the foundation of your long-term goals.

Students will discuss what they will be doing after they graduate. There is life
beyond high school.

The teacher will explain that this is your career goal. You have made a career goal
to be__________

Explain that goals are important because they provide a reason for doing things.
Meaningful goals give focus and direction to people’s lives. They help people
achieve their dreams and allow them to realize their dreams.

WORK SESSION Students will map out their goals by drawing them on poster paper.
 Students will present their poster to classmates.

 My goal is to_________

Students and teacher will recap the lesson and put up posters in the room.
 What is a goal?
CLOSING
 My career goal is?

LESSON 2
Understandings
Essential Questions
Overarching Understanding
In order for something to be a goal:
What is a goal?
• It has to be important to you, personally.
• It has to be within your power to make it happen Why are some goals important?
through your own actions.
• It has to be something you have a reasonable chance What is an example of a realistic goal and an example of
of achieving. an unrealistic goal?
• It must be clearly defined and have a specific plan of
action.

Knowledge Skills
Students will know… Students will be able to…

 that meaningful goals need to be personal and

realistic.  Perform a simple self-assessment,

 how to identify realistic and unrealistic goals.  identify what is important to them and begin
setting career goals
 the importance of having goals.
Teacher Will
 Yesterday we talked about goals in life after high school. You all closed your eyes and
thought about what you will be doing after high school. You thought about your career
goal and pictured yourself. Today we are going to look at your goals again and see if they
are measurable- are they achievable? -Is it realistic?

What is realistic goal? What does it mean when you say that a goal is not realistic?

Teacher will discuss realistic goals and unrealistic goals/not realistic.

Look and your goal on the board and tell me is it realistic/or not?
Students will place their posters under the correct term realistic/not realistic.
OPENING
As you can see some of our goals are unrealistic (Super Hero). In order for us to pick a
goal that is realistic, we may have to take a self-assessment.

You might ask, why am I doing a self-assessment?

As mentioned in the last lesson, there are hundreds of occupations to look at when
thinking about a career. How can you select one occupation out of hundreds? Well, it’s
best to choose an occupation that fits you: your interests, your educational goals, your
skills, your preferences. To determine your interests, educational goals, skill, preferences,
and so on, you will need to do a self-assessment.

A self-assessment can range from a simple survey to a more complex multi-test format
that analyzes many different aspects about yourself. We’re going to keep things simple
and just self-assess our interests.

WORK SESSION Students will go online to complete the O-net Career Interest Inventory (profiler).

https://www.mynextmove.org/explore/ip

Students will go over the results of their findings on O-Net. Each student will pick out
their top 2 interest scores.
CLOSING

Students will share their top 2 with the class.

LESSON 3
Understandings
Essential Questions
Overarching Understanding

A good career plan takes time to develop. Why Is Career Planning Important?

There are many web sites you can use to What is a career plan?
explore and research occupations.

Knowledge Skills
Students will know… Students will be able to…

 an occupation and career can be the same  To develop a career planning using Goggle Slides.
.
 a career plan is a guide on how you will  Explore their occupations using interest findings.
progress along your working life

Teacher Will

In this lesson you will start developing a career plan.

You may be asking yourself what's a career plan and why would I want to develop
one now?

Teacher will explain:

Why Is Career Planning Important?

You'll be spending a lot of time during your life working. It would be fantastic if you spent
that time working in an occupation that you enjoyed!
OPENING
A career plan is a guide on how you will progress along your working life. Hopefully
towards your ideal job

Yesterday we finished our self-assessments. We are now ready to start our Career
Planning Presentation – selecting an occupation that aligns with your self-assessment.

In this lesson, you will use your self-assessment information to explore several
occupations.

Students will go to their computer stations to explore their occupations:

WORK SESSION
Exploring You Occupations:
 When exploring the list of occupations, first scan titles for occupations that
sound interesting.
  Occupations with a sun icon indicate they have a bright outlook and are
expected to grow rapidly in the next several years, have a large number of job
openings or are new and emerging occupations. These occupations may be of
more interest to you.
 When you find an occupation that is interesting, click the title to display more
information.
 Read the description of the occupation and the sample job titles to get a better
feel for the occupation.
 Don’t get bogged down looking at the other information. When you have
finished with the detailed information, click the back arrow to display the list
again.

Write down two occupations

Teacher will check to see if the interests and occupations are supportive/a match.

Select one occupation to research in the Occupational Outlook Handbook or O’Net.

Students will go into Google Classroom and create a slide one for their Career Plan
Portfolio.

Slide 1- There Is Life Beyond High School

By:
Student

In this lesson, you explored occupations that align with your interests and educational
goal and selected several occupations that interest you.

CLOSING Today you decided on your future career goal. Please get your poster that you prepared
before your interest survey. Are they the same or different?

Students will respond in front of the class: same or different.

 LESSON 4
Understandings
Essential Questions
Overarching Understanding

A good career plan takes time to develop. What would you like to put in the career portfolio
concerning your career choice?
There are many web sites you can use to explore and
research occupations.

Knowledge Skills
Students will know… Students will be able to…

 good career plan is consistently reviewed and  Use the internet to record research information
updated. about occupations they find interesting.
 Develop a career plan slide portfolio
 Use online web sites to research and gather
information for your plan

Teacher Will

Now that you have decided on a career goal. We will complete a career portfolio using
Google Slides.

What would you like to put in the career portfolio concerning your career choice?
T
Teacher will write down their suggestions.

1. Your Name and Picture

2. Duties or Responsibilities – What you will have to do.
3. Do I need to go to college?
OPENING 4. Colleges that I can go to.
5. What I will make.
6. How I will look
7. Why I want to be a ____________________ (at least 5 reasons)
8. Where I can work
9. Will there be jobs?
10. I can add my resume.

This is a very good start. You will work today on Google Slides. You will have to put all 10
items in your presentation in order to get a 100.

Students will sign into their Google Classroom and start working on their Google Slide
WORK SESSION presentation.
 They will do research using the internet.

Suggested Websites:

https://www.mynextmove.org/explore/ip

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/

The teacher and para professional will walk around and provide guidance.

Students will start working when time is given. Students who have not completed
assignments will complete assignments tomorrow during Academic Elective Class period.

You can set a goal and make it happen. It all up to you.

Teacher will read- Remarkably Me

Closing We have a small library of books about achieving your goals in life. I want each one of
you to check out a book. Read it and do a book review. Try to convince someone to read
your book.

You will do the book report in the morning during morning activity time/club time.

During Enrichment Time they put the book review in kidblog.

https://kidblog.org/home/

https://www.mynextmove.org/explore/ip

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/

CURATED RESOURCES https://www.careerbuilder.com/

https://www.aeseducation.com/

http://www.goodcharacter.com/BCBC/Goals.html
 This is a Special Education Class all of the students
have accommodations/medications.
MODIFICATIONS/ACC  Look in their IEP folders and document
OMMODATONS
accommodations/modifications. Follow IEP plan for accommodating
students.
 UnacceptableFair Good Excellent Points
6 8 10
Career Presentation Presentation Presentation Presentation
Plan contains 4 or contains 6 contains 8 contains all
Organization less of the or less of or less of 10 of the
items. the items. the items. items.

Grammar, Virtually five Virtually Virtually Virtually no

Usage & or more three to one to two spelling,
Mechanics
spelling, four spelling, punctuation
punctuation spelling, punctuation or
or punctuation or grammatical
grammatical or grammatical errors
errors. grammatical errors
errors

Total Points

17-20 points- Excellent 14-16 points- Good 11-13 points- Fair 10 or less points- Unacceptable

From: Wiggins, Grant and J. Mc Tighe. (1998). Understanding by Design, Association for Supervision and
Curriculum Development.