Types of College Degrees - College Readiness

Have you realized that before you can talk to your students about choosing a college and career, they need to know the different types of college degrees and most students don't already know this?!

Get your high school students started with college planning and increase their college and career readiness with this interactive Google Slides presentation on "Types of College Degrees."

⭐️ These slides introduce students to the different types of college degrees, including general program lengths, requirements, and possible areas of study and future careers.

⭐️ Lesson plan included!

⭐️ Click HERE for the Pear Deck version.

⭐️ WHAT'S INCLUDED (a full 5E lesson that takes students through the entire learning cycle!):

• Engage: Question to hook students.
• Explore: Question to activate prior knowledge and the chance to ask questions before the beginning the lesson.
• Explain: In this lesson, students learn about the four college degrees (Associate Degree, Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, and Doctoral Degree) as well as what a certificate is.
• Elaborate/Extend: Discussion questions at the end of the presentation AND an editable extension activity asking students to interview five adults, one with each type of degree, OR you can delete it and choose your own extension activity; there's an editable slide at the end of the slide deck).
• Evaluate: Reflection questions at the end of the presentation.
• Extra: Ideas for engaging students and extending the lesson further!

⭐️ The time it takes for the entire lesson will vary depending on how much discussion and other extension activities you include. You and/or your students can get through it in one class, or you might spend two to three days or more on it if you assign the extension activities. Instructional time also depends on your students’ levels. Please be sure to read the “Suggestions for Use” below!

⭐️ 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 levels of questioning: The discussion questions require higher-level 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.

SUGGESTIONS FOR USE:

1. Present the slides in a face-to-face lecture OR through a video conference lecture by sharing your screen. To make your presentation more interactive and engaging (and less of a teacher-centered lecture), be sure to have students answer the questions and share their answers to any questions given in the presentation (ideas for discussion and sharing are included), stop to check comprehension, use peer teaching, and clarify or explain anything as needed.

2. OR, depending on your students’ levels, you can just send the slides to your students by email, Google Classroom, or another platform to work on independently or in small groups and type their answers on the slides, a Google Form, or a separate document (e.g., Jamboard) -- whichever you prefer (make sure you make a copy of the slides for each student).

3. Do a combination of #1 and 2. You may also want to work one-on-one with some students and let others work independently.

4. Follow the included lesson plan and extra ideas.

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