Elementary
Career Information
March 2005
Oklahoma Department of CareerTech
Guidance Division
As
human beings, our job is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one
of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has —or ever
will have —something inside that is unique to all time. It is our job to
encourage each other to discover that uniqueness and to provide ways of
developing its expression.
Mr.
Rogers
Inside
this issue:
Work
Ethics
Young
Person’s Occupational Outlook Handbook
Job
Shadowing/Economic Education
Arts,
A/V and Communications Cluster
Anger
Management Resources
Free
Resources and Parent Newsletter
The
Resource Center Crisis and Disasters
Anger
Management
Anger is a completely normal and healthy emotion until it gets out of control. Many students allow their anger to control them. Anger is only an emotion — how we act when we feel angry is up to us. When students act in anger, they seldom think rationally about what they are doing and what the consequences will be. They rarely stop to get the facts straight and often regret the consequences later. Providing activities and lessons for students to role-play and practice anger management skills properly will prevent further conflicts and help students resolve conflicts on their own.
This activity helps resolve conflicts and teaches
children how to properly handle conflict.
Location:
http://sde.state.ok.us/home/defaultie.html
Click On: Site
Index
Select: ‘G’
for Guidance/Counseling
Click On: Activities
Select: Pretzels
lesson plan
In the next activity, the student will use positive
communications skills when expressing needs, wants, and feelings, and they will
identify the skills needed to be a responsible friend and family member.
Location:
http://www.okcareertech.org/guidance/
Scroll To: Bottom
of the page and click on ELEMENTARY
Select: Say
It Again, Sam
Students
Talking About Respect, Inc.
Students Talking About Respect, Inc., is a
nonprofit educational corporation dedicated to preventing hatred and violence
among young people. STAR Chapters
provide a forum and a format for students to discuss respect, to develop
respect for themselves and others, and to empower themselves to prevent hatred
and violence in their school and community. Students also plan and conduct
"outreach programs" to bring the message of respect to people of
other ages in their community.
Location:
School-Based
Enterprises (SBE)
Examples of SBE give the activity, contact name, and school. SBE engage students in producing goods and services for sale. These hands-on activities can be directly linked to the curriculum.
Location:
http://www.okcareertech.org/guidance
Click On: Career Activity File
Select: School-Based Enterprises
View: Best Practices on pages 17-19 and 43-45
This site gets students in Grades 2-5 on the path
of smart money management. Using this site, students can start an at-home
business or a company at school. Businesses that students can start include
Rock Decorating, Beaded Key Chains, Greeting Card Stand, Bake Sale, and
Car/Bike Wash.
Each time students learn about financial concepts,
they will earn points that your school can redeem for technology-based rewards.
Young
Person’s Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH)
Based on the Department of Labor's 2004–2005 Occupational
Outlook Handbook, this popular guidebook is ideal for helping young
people explore 270 jobs that cover more than 88 percent of the workforce.
Purchasing this elementary OOH through CareerTech will save you $5 on each
book.
The book is grouped into 11 sections based on the
main sections of the OOH. Within each section are
one-page descriptions of related jobs.
Each includes:
A brief description of the job
Details on working conditions
School subjects related to the job
Suggested activities for "trying out" the
job
Information on earnings, education, or training
Employment outlook
Contact: CIMC
Catalog, 1-800-654-4502
Inventory Number: CS1109
Cost: $14
Purchasing this elementary OOH through CareerTech will save you
$5 on each book.
Work
Ethics
Good work ethics involve determining what is right
or wrong in the workplace, then doing the right thing. The work ethic is a
cultural norm that places a positive moral value on doing a good job and is
based on a belief that work has intrinsic value for its own sake (Cherrington,
1980; Quinn, 1983; Yankelovich and Immerwahr, 1984). Ethical behavior includes following personal and professional
codes of ethics, such as being honest, maintaining good attendance (and
explaining any absences), starting work on time and being productive while at work,
keeping confidential matters to yourself, avoiding gossip and disputes,
following workplace rules and regulations, respecting your co-workers, and
keeping your promises.
In today’s work setting, employees need to have a strong work ethic. This is
important because we are in the “information age,” where employees often must
set their own schedule, usually work with less direct supervision, and
frequently experience change and innovation in their work.
Work ethics are important in the workplace and in
the school room.
Calculate how much it would cost a company if a
worker comes in 15 minutes late each day.
Click On:
Products – Career Activity File
Select: Work Ethics and Career Clusters 2004
View: Wasted
Time (page 17)
Calculate the cost businesses lose when employees
are dishonest.
View: Ethic Word Problems (page 20)
Job
Shadowing/Economic Education
This
guide provides a framework for developing of an individual business/education
partnership to design and conduct successful job shadowing experiences. The
guide includes six lessons, suggestions for teachers in pre-tour visits to the
business, and ways to assist the business in planning the students’ tour.
Location:
http://www.okcareertech.org/guidance
Click
On: Career Activity File
Select: School-to-Work
Sustainability
View: Third
Graders Go to Work (page 25)
Arts, A/V Technology, and Communications Cluster
Arts, A/V Technology, and Communications
Definition - The jobs in
this cluster help make, create, and/or communicate ideas and thoughts through
performing arts, design, or journalism. Occupational examples include
Actor/Actress, Sportscaster, and Florist.
Cluster
Activity - Career Photographers
Discuss
tips for taking photos with students. Provide one disposable camera for every
four students. Distribute cameras with students; they take turns until all of
them have shared the camera with their parents. Have each student’s parents take six pictures of themselves at
work. Pictures should include the parent holding or working with tools specific
to occupation, completing a daily task, using technology in the workplace,
interacting with co-worker or customer, immediate work surroundings, and one
photo of their choice. Students explain the photography tips they learned in
school to their parents. After prints are developed, send them home for the
parents and child to write a narrative to accompany the pictures, which should
include goods or services produced and how school subjects relate to the job.
Once the completed pages are returned to school, place them in protective
sleeves within a three-ring binder. Students may check them out of the class
library.
Free
Resources and Parent Newsletters
Check out this Web
site to see if there are any CDs you would like to order for your school. It is
free software for the price of shipping and handling. While you are at the
site, preview the Parenting Tips
Newsletter. This is a great way to partner with your parents.
Location: http://familyeducation.com/home/
This kid-approved collection of folk and fairy
tales is based on themes of human values.
Location: http://hazel.forest.net/whootie/default.html
Click On: Folk and Fairy Tales from Around the World
That Help Kids Grow
These Web resources teach respect and good manners
through stories, poems, songs, games, biographies, lesson plans, and
activities.
Location: http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr232.shtml
Responsive Classroom is an approach to teaching
that strives to fully integrate social and academic learning throughout the
school day and to create a caring community where students are able to become
strong and ethical thinkers. The Responsive Classroom involves classroom
organization, a morning meeting, rules and logical consequences, choice time,
guided discovery, and assessment and reporting to parents.
Location:
http://www.responsiveclassroom.org/
"The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation
inspires people to practice kindness and to 'pass it on' to others." This resource that will help you remember
and even define “Acts of Kindness,” and make clear the importance of these
acts. You'll have the opportunity to
see what others in your area are doing. There are kindness quotations,
inspirational stories, a Teacher's Corner for Shared Ideas, and Resource
Guides.
Location:
http://www.actsofkindness.org/
New Resources Help Schools Address
“Three Rs” of Crises and Disasters
The National Center for
Child Traumatic Stress (NCCTS) has created new online resources specifically to
help school personnel address safety, disaster planning and response, trauma
and optimal learning in school settings. The Web site contains a general introduction
to school safety, information on the effects of trauma on schools and learning,
the "three Rs" of school crises and disasters (readiness, response
and recovery), and information on service intervention programs as well as
other valuable resources for schools. Prepared by a team of experts at the
NCCTS School Crisis and Intervention Unit.
Location: http://www.NCTSNet.org
The Resource Center
The Resource Center at the Oklahoma Department of
Career and Technology Education offers a library of materials (print and
non-print) for checkout to Oklahoma educators. Materials may be checked out for
one month and renewed if no one else is waiting on them. There is no fee for borrowing the items, but the
borrower is responsible for return postage.
Overdue notices are issued for items not returned on or before their due
date. Replacement of lost or damaged
materials is the responsibility of the borrower.
The Resource Center is open Monday-Friday 8 a.m. to
4:30 p.m., and is closed on state designated holidays. Please note the Resource Center is open
during school vacations. Materials may be requested by phone, e-mail, or
walk-in. Subject bibliographies are listed on the Web site under Elementary
Counselor Resource. Check out the sample resources.
Character
Education Through Children's Literature
370.114 OSU
Sheryl O'Sullivan discusses why character education
is important in elementary and middle schools and provides a rationale for
using children's literature as the instructional vehicle.
Building
A Caring, Cooperative Classroom: A Social Skills Primer 371.395
BEL
This book offers 30 easy-to-follow lessons to help
K-3 students learn critical social skills integrated through language arts themes.
Location: http://www.okcareertech.org/resrc/default.htm or Phone 405-743-5163
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“What is right is
right, even if no one is doing it. What is wrong is wrong, even if everyone is
doing it.” Source Unknown.
“There is no
substitute for hard work.” Thomas
Edison
“Half
a truth is a whole lie.” Sam
Levenson
Teacher/Educator/Counselor
Resources
Elementary Career Lesson Plans
(Added quarterly)
Oklahoma Department
of CareerTech
Guidance Division
Oklahoma Dept. of
CareerTech
1500 West 7th
Avenue
Stillwater, OK
74074
Phone: 405-743-5123
Email: jhawk@okcareertech.org