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Career Exploration Senior Project
A complete package for implementing a Career Exploration Senior Project at your school. Project elements are described, including standards, prompts, and rubrics for assessing each area. The cumulative assessment encompasses the California K-12 standards that students have mastered by the conclusion of their senior year in high school. These projects are tangible evidence of student achievement. They give students the opportunity to showcase foundation skills (SCANS), as well as California academic and business core standards and result in a project.
Outline of Project Elements
The assessment may be implemented to consist of some or all the elements.
A. Portfolio
A-1. Career Proposal Essay
A-2. Career Research -- Written Presentation with Bibliography
A-3. College Application Essay or Résume
A-4. Fieldwork Journal including Documentation of Hours and Visual Evidence
A-5. Summary Essay (reflection of fieldwork experience)
A-6. Oral Presentation Outline and Written SpeechB. Fieldwork - two of the following
B-1. Job Shadowing
B-2. Internship/Apprentice
B-3. Community Service
B-4. Interviews
B-5. Program Visitation
B-6. Producing a ProductC. Oral Presentation
C-1. Oral Presentation with an option to use multimedia or other visual props
C-2. Presentation of PortfolioDownload the entire document in pdf format (19 pages, 144 KB)
Download the entire document in Microsoft Word format (19 pages, 259 KB)
Each of the project elements are described including sample prompts and sample rubrics for assessing each area.
Sierra Community College , with state funding, worked with high school teachers in a year long project to create and test these high quality lesson plans. The objective was to provide high quality, ready-to-use lessons that integrated vocational and academic standards, concepts and curriculum.