Descriptions of Each Text

The Career Choices integrated curriculum consists of three textbooks, a Workbook and Instructor's Guide. The texts can be used independently or jointly to create an interdisciplinary learning experience.

Career Choices is the main text, complete with over 100 motivational learning activities. Students begin with a process for self-awareness. Once they explore their unique abilities, ambitions and dreams, they are ready to learn the life skill strategies of goal setting, decision making, critical thinking, teamwork and long-term planning.

Possibilities is a literature anthology of fifty poems, short stories, essays and speeches integrated thematically with the lessons in Career Choices. Literature's true gift is to help students broaden understanding of self and others. The selections in Possibilities help young people relate these lessons directly to their own lives while increasing reading skills.

Lifestyle Math complements the Career Choices text as it teaches students real-world math skills they will use virtually every day of their lives. Students explore the financial costs of their ideal family at age 29. In this dramatic lesson, they discover not only the personal budget process but understand why they need career planning and education to achieve their lifestyle goals.

The Workbook and Portfolio provides a permanent record of each student's career and life planning goals. This low-cost, consumable workbook replicates each exercise in the Career Choices classroom text. With this portfolio, students gain focus, teachers acquire an assessment tool and guidance counselors can work with a tangible student career plan.

The Instructor's and Counselor's Guideprovides instructors with clearly written learning objectives, lesson plans, motivational activities, vocabulary and composition suggestions.

The Lesson Planning Guide and Hourly Manager provides hour by hour guidance to help tailor the curriculum to virtually any summer educational enhancement objectives.