Chapter 5 - My Ideal Career

Covered in class Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Task 1:  Complete Chapter 5 in your online workbook.

Objective: To define your personal values and skills and match them to a potential job or career

Task 2:  Complete the job skills checklist below. Check off all skills that apply to you.

http://www.resumedictionary.com/skillslist.pdf

Finishing Chapter 4 - Continued

Covered in class Thursday, April 24, 2014

Part 1: Discussion - Why is it important to consider your values when making career decisions?

Value Categories

Adventure, family, knowledge and truth, power, personal integrity and moral courage, money or wealth, friendship or companionship, recognition, independence and freedom, security, beauty or aesthetics, creativity, and helping others

Part 2:  You Win Some, You Lose Some

Task -- Complete three examples from the "You Win Some, You Lose Some" activity in Chapter 4 in your online workbook.

Objective -- To identify the rewards and sacrifices of various jobs
Part 3:  After Hours Rewards

Task -- Complete three examples from the "After Hours Rewards" activity in  Chapter 4 in your online workbook.

Objective -- To identify ways to fulfill your top values outside of work if they aren't being fulfilled by your career.

Part 4:  Work Values Essay

Task

1.Choose a career that you are interested in.

2.Review your Top 3 Work Values from your scores from the Work Values Survey on pg. 34-35 in Chapter 2

3.With this background info, respond to the following questions in a ONE PAGE essay:

—Based on my work values, is this a good career choice for me? Why or why not?

—If this career doesn’t meet all of my top values, what can I do outside of my work hours to fulfill my personal propensities?

Email to: ajenkins@learn.k12.ct.us 

Finishing Chapter 4

Covered in class Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Part 1: POP QUIZ

Part 2: Complete page 96 in workbook "Hard Times Budget"

Task -- DISREGARD BOOK INSTRUCTIONS. Create a budget using the average salary of your desired career. Estimate the salary based on your age 10 years from now (not a starting salary). Remember that this is a monthly budget so you will be using your monthly income or salary divided by 12.  

Part 3: Sample Budget (Budgeting Practice)

Task -- Choose ONE of the four budget scenarios from pages 97-101 to complete in your workbook. You can find the equation to calculate gross income on page 93. 

Part 4:  "Money isn't Everything" (Values and Sacrifices)

Task 1-- Choose ONE of the scenarios from pages 106-110 to read and complete the follow up questions in your workbook.

Task 2 -- Research the life of a famous person who appeared to have everything because of their wealth, but in the end their life came apart. Then write a summary about that person in the provided space at the bottom of "Leon's Story" in the "Money isn't Everything" section of Chapter 4 of your online workbook.

Chapter 4 Continued

Covered in class: Thursday April 10th, 2014

Part 1: Video + Discussion
http://www.ted.com/talks/shlomo_benartzi_saving_more_tomorrow

 Part 2: Catch up work on Chapter 4 in workbook.
  HOMEWORK--  Complete workbook up to page 94 BY APRIL 21 (the day we come back from spring break).

Chapter 4 - What Costs This Lifestyle?

Covered in class: Tuesday April 8th, 2014

Starting Chapter 4

Part 1: Budgeting

Task -- Complete Chapter 4 online financial workbook on my10yearplan.com up to pg. 93
 
Instructions:

• Be sure to project your answers according to how you would like your life to look in the future age you choose (as prompted in workbook). Do not answer according to the career you think you'll be working in, answer based on what YOU WANT in your future lifestyle.
• Don’t be afraid to fantasize a little!

TERMS TO KNOW

—Cooperative apartment

A co-op apartment building is owned by a not-for-profit corporation. People can buy shares of the corporation, which entitles them the right to live in a specific unit of the building and a vote in matters concerning the cooperative as a whole

—Government housing

Government-provided housing at low rent: housing managed by the government and provided at a relatively low rent as a form of public assistance

—Housing

You should spend about 1/3 (33%) of your paycheck on housing

—Sundries

Small, miscellaneous items of little value (things you buy at CVS or convenience store when you don’t go to grocery store

—Savings

You should save about  20% of each paycheck 

HOMEWORK:  Complete workbook up to page 93 for class on 4/10.      















         

Finishing Chapter 3

Covered in class: Thursday April 3rd, 2014

Finishing Chapter 3

Part 1: How Do You Want to Be Remembered?

Task -- Write a brief "mission statement" for your life. How do you want to be remembered? What did you stand for?
Part 2: Components of Lifestyle

Discussion -- Why is it important to visualize our future and connect it to the decisions we're making now?

Task -- Compose an essay titled, "A Day in My Life in 2034 (20 years from now)" describing what a day in your life will be like when you're in the middle of your career, climbing closer to the top of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. E-mail it to Alley: ajenkins@learn.k12.ct.us.

Debate -- Which should come first - lifestyle choice or career choice? Why?
 
Part 3: Looking into the Future

Task -- Students engaged in a meditation exercise and reflected by writing a letter to themselves from an important person from their distant future (after retirement).

Discussion -- VISION + ENERGY = SUCCESS
Why do we need a vision for our future? How does energy turn our vision into reality/success? GRIT!

HOMEWORK:  Complete workbook up to page 71 for class on 4/8.

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - Continued

Covered in class: Tuesday April 1st, 2014

Finishing Chapter 3




Part 1: External Messages Activity Homework - Discussion
Charles - Esteem

Talia - Safety

Part 2:  Fill out the worksheet below to be turned in to me on April 3rd. Try to be as specific as possible. (Example: Social needs - I play soccer, have a boyfriend or girlfriend, hang out with my friends every Friday night, go bowling with my family on Sundays...etc)



Homework due April 3rd: Complete workbook up to page 71. Bring in your Maslow's worksheet (above) and your advertisement pertaining to Maslow's Hierarchy (refer to previous post) if you haven't presented it already.