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College and Career Awareness: Lesson One

College and Career Awareness: Lesson One. What is your next step?. Job College Some other form of training Anything else?. Barriers . What are some barriers that might complicate your plans?. Barriers . Financial Time Child Care Skills. Overcoming Barriers- JOURNAL.

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College and Career Awareness: Lesson One

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  1. College and Career Awareness: Lesson One

  2. What is your next step? • Job • College • Some other form of training • Anything else?

  3. Barriers • What are some barriers that might complicate your plans?

  4. Barriers • Financial • Time • Child Care • Skills

  5. Overcoming Barriers- JOURNAL Please answer the following questions in your journal: 1. What can you do to help overcome those barriers? 2. What can this class do to help with that process?

  6. Employment?JOURNAL • What jobs are you interested in? • Why are you interested in this career? • What do these jobs pay? • What training is involved?

  7. Job Survey • Please fill out the job survey to the best of your ability. At the end of the course we will compare and see what you’ve learned!

  8. What is reading? • What do we read? • Why do we read? • What makes a good reader? • What is reading?

  9. A Complex Skill • Reading is a complex skill • There are many levels of reading • We are all better at some forms of reading than others. Let’s look at a few examples.

  10. Newspaper Articles • Rachel Mordhorst, owner of Rhythm & Blooms, has been selling flowers grown on her Coburg farm since she started her business 24 years ago.But customers checking out the bouquets at her three retail shops in Eugene might never know that many of the flowers for sale are homegrown.That’s why she’s trying to spread the word.

  11. Technical Writing • The heat produced by the short circuit, along with a non-reactive (hence inert) gas locally melts the metal and allows them to mix together. Once the heat is removed, the metal begins to cool and solidify, and forms a new piece of fused metal.

  12. Victorian Poetry No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the worlds storm-troubled sphere: I see Heavens glories shine, And faith shines equal, arming me from fear. - Emily Bronte

  13. What do these words mean? • Blate • Crex • Entrask • Drize • Jort

  14. Clues • Phonics (sounds we use to figure out a words pronunciation) • Are these really words? • What does it take to be a word? • Does a word have to have meaning?

  15. What do those words mean??? • In order to gather information you have to be able to read and understand the information from a variety of sources. College and employers also expect that you will be able to read a variety of materials with understanding.

  16. Friendly eating hopeless understanding

  17. Did you understand the sentence? • Is it really a sentence? • What does it take to have a sentence?

  18. What are words and sentences for? • Meaning!

  19. Previewing before reading

  20. Previewing • Title

  21. Previewing • Title • Read first paragraph

  22. Previewing • Title • Read first paragraph • Look at how it’s organized

  23. Previewing • Title • Read first paragraph • Look at how it’s organized • Look for headings

  24. Previewing • Title • Read first paragraph • Look at how it’s organized • Look for headings • Look for other things that stand out (italics, bold, etc.)

  25. What is reading essay • Let’s read it!

  26. Main Ideas • What is a main idea?

  27. Main Ideas • What is a main idea? They are the main points that an author hopes you will understand and remember.

  28. Main Ideas • What are the main ideas of each paragraph?

  29. Main Ideas • Paragraph 1

  30. Main Ideas • Paragraph 1- introductory paragraph, main idea is a question, “What is reading?”

  31. Main Ideas • Paragraph 2

  32. Main Ideas • Paragraph 2- Reading is a common activity that most people take for granted.

  33. Main Ideas • Paragraph 3

  34. Main Ideas • Paragraph 3- Experts have different ideas about what reading is.

  35. Definition of Reading • Reading is thinking. Reading is decoding written symbols (words), discovering their meaning and integrating that meaning with your own experience to improve your understanding and to achieve your specific purposes.

  36. Life Timeline • My life

  37. My Life • How did I get to where I am now?

  38. Your Timeline • I want you to create your occupational timeline in your journal • Are there any moments that helped motivated you further? • What about future events?

  39. Timeline • Where are you at in your timeline right now? • Where does your future begin? • What kinds of things can you do to help propel you forward?

  40. Essay Time! Please free-write about the following questions: • Something interesting, useful, important, etc., that you learned or remembered during today’s class • Any ideas about possible careers that came up for you today

  41. End of Lesson One! • Please submit your Lesson One handout packet and your journal to your instructor for grading.

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