board that should help them think about what is important to them as they decide on
their future work.
4. Distribute the “Career Planning Board” and nine small pieces of paper that fit inside
the blocks on the board.
5. Hand out the “Career Clusters Interest Survey” and have students complete the survey
and discover their top three career cluster* interests on the bottom of the last page of
the interest survey.
*Career Clusters organize occupations and industries into 16 groups, or clusters,
according to related skills and knowledge needed.
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intellectual challenge
helping others
prestige or respect
security
achievement
freedom or autonomy (independence)
money or income
lifestyle
wild card (students can write in any attribute of their choice.)
You may need to describe what these attributes mean in relation to a job. For example,
how would you like your workday to look? Would you like to do the same thing
repeatedly or do a variety of different tasks on a daily basis? Once you have announced
all of the attributes, tell the students that they may take a minute or two to move the items
around to create their ideal career with space one containing the most important attribute.
8. When students have finished, have them display their boards on the table or on their
desks. Next, ask the students to take a stroll on the “Board Walk” around the room
looking at the others’ boards. Ask students to look for patterns in the room. You may
want the students to take a piece of paper and record their observations or you can
create a chart of the results on the SMART board using the “Sample Graph of Career
Attributes Data” sheet.
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7. Announce the career attributes one at a time: Go down the list asking, “How
important is _____________ to you in your career?”
I Can Self-Reflect
6. Tell students that you are going to call out several attributes or characteristics of
careers, and when you do, they are to write each characteristic on a separate piece of
paper and place it on the “Career Planning Board.” They are to place items they must
have in a career in the top three slots and those that are not as important in the lower
three slots. The three characteristics that fall between most and least important can be
placed in slots numbered four, five, and six. (Tell them that they can put only one
item in a slot.)