Module 5: Career Self-knowledge

Time Frame
This module will take approximately 10 hours to complete. The number of lessons will vary according to the time available for each lesson.

Foundational Objectives and Learning Objectives

Level A - Extend Knowledge Base

Foundational Objectives
Students will appraise self-knowledge in relation to occupational choice, career requirements and working conditions.

Students will acknowledge the importance of accessing and evaluating the necessary personal and occupational information essential for career planning.

Students will recognize the interrelationship between career self-knowledge and career planning.

Learning Objectives
Students will acquire and evaluate information in order to:

• define the terms career, occupation and job
• reassess their abilities, interests, personality and personal standards and identify related careers
• explore the importance of lifestyle and leisure as part of career self-knowledge
• describe the lifestyle and characteristics of an entrepreneur
• identify factors that have influenced the changing career patterns of women and men
• identify the types of stereotypes and the factors that influence them
• explore traditional and non-traditional roles and their relationship to stereotyping in the workplace
• explore entrepreneurial opportunities at the local, provincial, national and international level, in private and co-op settings
• describe the advantages and disadvantages of self-employment as a career option
• identify two or more career clusters that reflect their personal profile
• identify individuals in one career cluster as possible information sources, role models or mentors.

Level B - Make An Informed Decision

Foundational Objectives
Students will develop the lifelong skill of making career decisions that reflect personal goals, lifestyle goals and self-knowledge.

Students will appreciate that career self-knowledge is a lifelong process involving continuous decision making.

Learning Objectives
Students will:

• state a career self-knowledge challenge
• identify strategies (alternatives) to meet their challenge
• predict the potential consequences of each alternative
• select the best strategy (alternative) based upon appropriate criteria
• compile a career self-knowledge goal statement.

Level C - Carry Out Action Plan

Foundational Objective
Students will develop the ability and the confidence to design and carry out career self-knowledge action plans.

Learning Objective
Students will be able to:

• design and carry out action plans to meet their career self-knowledge goals.

The selection of the following C.E.L.s for emphasis in this module does not preclude the development of other C.E.L.s in the suggested activities and strategies.

Foundational Objective (C)
Students will understand and use the vocabulary, structures and forms of expression which characterize career options.

Learning Objective
Students will:

• demonstrate use of a range of resources (handbooks, career materials, labour market information and computerized career information delivery systems).

Foundational Objective (CCT)
Students will develop their abilities to become "strong sense" critical and creative thinkers.

Learning Objective
Students will:

• explore the implications or consequences of actions.

Foundational Objective (CCT)
Students will develop both intuitive, imaginative thought and the ability to evaluate ideas, processes and experiences relevant to career self-knowledge.

Learning Objectives
Students will:

• understand that real-life problems often have more than one solution
• examine knowledge in terms of what they already know and what they want to know
• render a judgment and support that judgment by referring to clearly defined criteria
• relate, compare and evaluate what is being read, heard or viewed.

Foundational Objective (TL)
Students will understand that technology both shapes and is shaped by society.

Learning Objective
Students will:

• understand how technology influences occupational roles within society and affects the workplace.

Foundational Objective (PSVS)
Students will develop an understanding of prejudice, discrimination, racism, sexism and all forms of inequality and exploitation and will develop a desire to contribute to their elimination.

Learning Objectives
Students will:

• explore the implications of gender stereotyping
• recognize how stereotypical views can lead to prejudicial attitudes and discriminatory practices.

Foundational Objective (IL)
Students will develop a positive disposition toward lifelong learning.

Learning Objective
Students will be able to:

• make choices in learning that reflect their needs and interests.

Foundational Objective (IL)
Students will develop the ability to meet their own learning needs.

Learning Objectives
Students will:

• plan self-directed projects and develop criteria for evaluation (with the guidance of teachers as required )
• construct clear, achievable goals and plan to meet them
• transform their reflections into strategies for action.