Options after High School-College & Career Readiness Life Skills Lesson/Activity
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Calling all high school AVID, Advisory, and college and career readiness teachers and counselors! Need help preparing your students for the college research, application, and admission process? Save yourself time with these engaging NO-PREP Google Slides lessons, activities, worksheets, projects, anPrice $98.40Original Price $123.00Save $24.60
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Wondering how to start your college-and-career-readiness unit? Begin by making sure your students are fully aware of all their options after high school!
This valuable life skills lesson on partly editable Google Slides will help to kickstart your students' college and career planning and exploration of alternative post-high-school pathways.
⭐️ WHAT'S INCLUDED (a complete lesson that uses the 5E Learning Cycle!):
- Engage: Question to hook students.
- Explore: Question to activate prior knowledge and the chance to ask questions before getting into the lesson.
- Explain: An overview of the six main options after high school, including the pros and cons of the following choices:
➡️ Gap year
➡️ Working
➡️ Military
➡️ Apprenticeship
➡️ Trade school
➡️ College) - Elaborate/Extend: The extension part of the lesson includes discussion questions and an editable interview assignment.
- Evaluate: Reflection questions at the end of the presentation.
- Extra: Ideas for engaging students and extending the lesson further!
⭐️ Empower your students to make informed choices as they embark on their journey with confidence and clarity!
⭐️ This presentation can be used by teachers or counselors with face-to-face instruction, distance learning, OR a hybrid approach in any secondary class. You can present the lesson to the whole class or have students review it themselves independently or in small groups! This is the perfect lesson for a high school AVID, advisory, life skills, CTE, or language arts class!
⭐️ I also have this same presentation with Pear Deck slides! Click here for the Pear Deck version.
⭐️ This product is a COMPLETE LESSON in one place (similar to a Hyperdoc, which takes students through the learning cycle in one doc or slide deck using hyperlinks and other media). Perfect for using as a differentiated, self-paced, student-centered lesson, and/or whole class presentation!
⭐️ The time it takes for the entire lesson will vary depending on how much time you allow for group discussions, follow-up class sharing, and extension activities. You could spend as little as 60 minutes on the presentation itself, if that's all the time you have, or as much as one to three whole classes or more if you include some of the suggested extension activities. For ESL classes, you may a little need more time.
⭐️ This lesson is also included in my College Readiness Bundle and my College and Career Readiness BUNDLE.
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Note: You can skip or delete any of the slides you don't want to use and add your own notes to any of the slides.
⭐️ This lesson has it all:
- Explicit instruction: This lesson is direct and systematically chunked following a 5E lesson plan and guides students with a clear purpose/essential question, explanation, and supported practice/extension.
- 21st century skills: Students use media and technology literacy skills with this interactive Google Slides presentation and use critical thinking, collaboration, and communication with all the opportunities for discussion.
- Multi-modalities and hands-on learning: Students view and/or listen to the presentation, write and talk about their learning in “think-write-pair-shares” and discussion groups, and possibly more depending on what you assign in the extension, such as producing an essay or video to demonstrate understanding and synthesizing ideas.
- Differentiation: Depending on students’ levels, you could present to the class as a whole and/or assign students to view the slides independently or in small groups and answer the questions as you see fit.
- Scaffolding: This complete lesson comes in manageable parts, from activating prior knowledge to reflection and assessment, and can be teacher- or student-paced.
- Higher-level thinking: The discussion questions require higher-order thinking such as analysis, evaluation, and synthesis.
- Real-life connection: The college and career-readiness topic and essential question are meaningful and relevant to students’ futures.
- Student choice: To add student choice, give students options of strategies, tools, and/or extension activities.
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⭐️ Read more on my blog: How to Help Your Students Make the Best Choices After High School.
⭐️ Get this FREE College and Career Readiness Curriculum Planning Guide on my website!
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