Use the entire Career Choices program as the core curriculum for a freshman academy.
This curriculum saves your staff hundreds of hours of planning time. Your English, math, and social
studies instructors can easily join together to deliver an interdisciplinary course using the Career Choices
text and workbook, the Possibilities anthology, and Lifestyle Math. Academics will have more meaning
for the learner when their academic course work is thematically driven, using a comprehensive guidance
foundation.
Much as we would like students to learn for the love of learning, most young people need the added
incentive of seeing how the subject at hand relates to their place in the world. Career Choices offers
instant relevancy to English and math assignments. In addition, it graphically llustrates personal
benefits--what they have to gain from staying in school and putting forth their best effort. Finally, it gives
them an opportunity to create a plan for their lives that offers guidance on bringing that plan to fruition.
This can be accomplished in a variety of ways.
For instance, one instructor can teach the course using the Career Choices text and portions of
Possibilities and Lifestyle Math, with the English and math members of their team using other portions.
Click here for a sample integrated lesson plan for the Career Choices instructor.
For a sample 9-week lesson plan that demonstrates how to integrate Career Choices texts (Career
Choices, Possibilities and Lifestyle Math) with the English and math instructors each taking a portion of
the curriculum see pages 5/5 to 5/14 of the Career Choices Instructor’s Guide.
Click here for background on a school that uses Career Choices in a Freshman Academy with more than
1,200 freshman per year.
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