Business and Career Exploration Program for Elementary School-Age Children Curriculum Manual

Business and Career Exploration Program for Elementary School-Age Children Curriculum Manual
Author: Steven T. Robinson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2009-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781438973272

The Business and Career Exploration Program represents a state of an art initiative and first of its kind that provides elementary school aged children with reality based life experiences of business and career options through innovative class presentations, learning projects, visitations and special corporate incentives. The program reignites the flame and dream of what our children's lives can become.

Student Activity Workbook Business and Career Exploration Program

Student Activity Workbook Business and Career Exploration Program
Author: Steven T. Robinson
Publisher: Author House
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2011-10-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1467024678

If it is true that our children are most impressionable at an early age, then its quite elementary to start providing opportunities of life changing alternatives that will help our children realize and develop toward their full potential as productive members of our society. The activities designed in this Student Activities Workbook are to be use in accordance with the Business and Career Exploration Program Curriculum. The Business and Career Exploration Program represents a state of the art initiative and first of its kind that comprehensively provides elementary and middle school aged children with reality based positive life experiences of business and career options through personalized assembly presentations, learning projects, entrepreneurship opportunities, mentoring, visitations, and special corporate incentives. The program for many of our youngest citizens reignites the flame and dreams of what our childrens lives can become. With each educational and life experience our children gain a greater understanding of various professions and what they would like to become as working adults. The activities in this workbook are not only enjoyable, but highly interactive and challenging to promote the awareness of our childrens potential. Specific objectives of the workbook include concepts of self-knowledge, development of a basic understanding of interests, likes and dislikes, how to interact with others, an Educational and Occupational Exploration component and a special involvement project entitled Minding My Own Business / Career Planning which facilitates the awareness of childrens abilities regarding entrepreneurship opportunities. The various activities are designed to raise awareness of the relationship between work and learning to the needs and functions of society and the interrelationships of life roles. The elementary grades are also a good time to introduce the importance of personal responsibility, good work habits and the benefits of educational achievement.

Skills for Success

Skills for Success
Author: Karen E. Wolffe
Publisher: American Foundation for the Blind
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre: Blind children
ISBN: 9780891289432

This innovative handbook offers special education teachers, career counselors, and parents a comprehensive range of tested techniques and strategies to help youngsters who are blind or visually impaired begin to build the skills they need for successful careers. It introduces specific activities for preparing visually impaired children from preschoolers through middle school for the next level of schooling and to become independent in daily life, confident about their career choices, and skillful on their future jobs.

School, Family, and Community Partnerships

School, Family, and Community Partnerships
Author: Joyce L. Epstein
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 508
Release: 2018-07-19
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1483320014

Strengthen programs of family and community engagement to promote equity and increase student success! When schools, families, and communities collaborate and share responsibility for students′ education, more students succeed in school. Based on 30 years of research and fieldwork, the fourth edition of the bestseller School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action, presents tools and guidelines to help develop more effective and more equitable programs of family and community engagement. Written by a team of well-known experts, it provides a theory and framework of six types of involvement for action; up-to-date research on school, family, and community collaboration; and new materials for professional development and on-going technical assistance. Readers also will find: Examples of best practices on the six types of involvement from preschools, and elementary, middle, and high schools Checklists, templates, and evaluations to plan goal-linked partnership programs and assess progress CD-ROM with slides and notes for two presentations: A new awareness session to orient colleagues on the major components of a research-based partnership program, and a full One-Day Team Training Workshop to prepare school teams to develop their partnership programs. As a foundational text, this handbook demonstrates a proven approach to implement and sustain inclusive, goal-linked programs of partnership. It shows how a good partnership program is an essential component of good school organization and school improvement for student success. This book will help every district and all schools strengthen and continually improve their programs of family and community engagement.

Essential Questions

Essential Questions
Author: Jay McTighe
Publisher: ASCD
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2013-03-27
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1416615709

What are "essential questions," and how do they differ from other kinds of questions? What's so great about them? Why should you design and use essential questions in your classroom? Essential questions (EQs) help target standards as you organize curriculum content into coherent units that yield focused and thoughtful learning. In the classroom, EQs are used to stimulate students' discussions and promote a deeper understanding of the content. Whether you are an Understanding by Design (UbD) devotee or are searching for ways to address standards—local or Common Core State Standards—in an engaging way, Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins provide practical guidance on how to design, initiate, and embed inquiry-based teaching and learning in your classroom. Offering dozens of examples, the authors explore the usefulness of EQs in all K-12 content areas, including skill-based areas such as math, PE, language instruction, and arts education. As an important element of their backward design approach to designing curriculum, instruction, and assessment, the authors *Give a comprehensive explanation of why EQs are so important; *Explore seven defining characteristics of EQs; *Distinguish between topical and overarching questions and their uses; *Outline the rationale for using EQs as the focal point in creating units of study; and *Show how to create effective EQs, working from sources including standards, desired understandings, and student misconceptions. Using essential questions can be challenging—for both teachers and students—and this book provides guidance through practical and proven processes, as well as suggested "response strategies" to encourage student engagement. Finally, you will learn how to create a culture of inquiry so that all members of the educational community—students, teachers, and administrators—benefit from the increased rigor and deepened understanding that emerge when essential questions become a guiding force for learners of all ages.