Career Ideas

1. Career Ideas

2. PROCEDURES • Connect Ideas & Concept:Career • “Today we will examine careers and how to prepare for a job. Lead a brief discussion about the word “career” and its definition. • Do you think a job is the same as having a career?Why? • What level of schooling do you think is required to have a career? Is graduating from HS required? • Define “Career” in your own words. • Fill in the Signpost on page 6

3. MY JOBS & CAREER • Brief reason for becoming a teacher • Brief review of the challenges I faced becoming a teacher and how I dealt with them • How my education prepared me for a career as a teacher. • One specific story about a moment in my education that prepared me for my career as a teacher • Something I learned about being a teacher after starting to work as a teacher • Another career I sometimes imagine for my future:

4. ONE CAREER IN FOCUS • FORENSIC PATHOLOGIST • Does anyone know what this job is? • “Forensic” means unnatural or suspicious • “Pathologist” is a scientist who studies changes to the human body due to disease of injury. • A forensic pathologist is a medical detective – a doctor who works in a lab and tries to understand why people die, usually to help police learn the reason for the deaths. • Do you know any TV shows the feature medical detectives • Why might a person want to become a forensics pathologist? What kind of education do you think is needed? • In which school subject areas should someone excel if he or she wants to be a medical detective?

5. CAREER IDEAS • Fill out pages 6 and 7. • Preparing for the world of work starts with the schoolwork you do now. Being successful in school helps you to be successful in the world of work. • How would you describe a job you might want to do in the future? What school subjects relate to your job choice?