NC guidance clarifying objectives by development

CAREER DEVELOPMENT COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT SOCIO-EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT NC Guidance Clarifying Objectives by Development ESSENTIAL READINESS/EXPLORATORY/DIS¬ EARLY EMERGENT/ PROGRESSING EARLY INDEPENDENT INDEPENDENT STANDARDS COVERY EMERGENT Understand the meaning and importance of personal responsibility and awareness • Understand the importance of self-control and responsibility. •Contrast rights and responsibilities. • Identify ways of controlling emotional states, feelings, and moods. • Contrast appropriate and inappropriate physical contact • Illustrate personal responsibility in a variety of settings and situations. • Identify how to set boundaries that maintain personal rights while paying attention to the rights of others. • Use self-determination to build independence (e.g., work habits, personal productivity, and leadership). • Explain the impact of personal responsibility on others. • Contrast rights, privileges, and responsibilities • Integrate personal responsibility into way you live your life on a daily basis. • Explain the role of personal responsibility in leadership. Understand the relationship between self and others in the broader world. • Identify ways of making and keeping friends. • Understand how to support positive relationship building (e.g., managing impulsivity, adaptability, and flexibility). • Contrast the influence of self and others in relationship building. • Explain why responsibility, dependability, punctuality, integrity, and effort are important in all aspects of life. • Explain why it is important to follow rules in orderto build relationships. • Interpret the meaning of self-concept. • Explain how understanding differences among people can increase self understanding. • Use responsible risk-taking behaviors to support positive relationship building. • Explain the impact of personal responsibility on others. • Contrast rights, privileges, and responsibilities. • Exemplify how peer-pressure can be both a negative and positive influence. • Evaluate one's own behaviors in a variety of situations, making adjustments as needed to produce more positive results. • Explain the impact of self-direction, initiative, and self-control on inter¬ personal relationships. Use communication strategies effectively for a variety of purposes and audiences. • Use oral/written communication skills to share information with others. • Use non-verbal communication skills to share information with others. • Summarize written communications in orderto share ideas and information with others in five (5) minutes. • Use written communication strategies and techniques in communication to share ideas and information with others. • Analyze available resources and strategies to determine those that are most appropriate for communicating to various groups. • Use communication skills that build and sustain relationships with a wide range of people. • Explain how body language and vocal expression affect the effectiveness of communication. • Use communication strategies that are appropriate for the situation and setting. • Use conflict management skills to achieve desired outcomes. • Exemplify how peer- pressure can be both a negative and positive influence. • Evaluate one's own behaviors in a variety of situations, making adjustments as needed to produce more positive results. • Explain the impact of self-direction, initiative, and self-control on Inter¬ personal relationships. Use creative strategies to make decisions and solve problems. • Identify problems that you have encountered or are likely to encounter. • Identify creative strategies and non creative strategies. • Create strategies for solving problems that have been problems for some time. • Use creative strategies to achieve academic, personal, social, and professional goals. • Understand how to make adjustments to strategies that are not effective in making decisions or solving problems. • Analyze strategies you have used in the pastto determine the most appropriate strategies for solving a current academic problem. • Analyze solution strategies in terms of assumptions and biases. • Create new and different ways of achieving long-term goals. • Evaluate the effectiveness of creative strategies in solving problems, making adjustments as necessary. • Design new strategies by making modifications to previously used strategies. • Generate ideas for solving novel problems that are based on previous experience and the results of internet research. Use analytical strategies to understand situations. • Identify situations from your daily life in terms of problems and solution strategies. • Recognize situations in which peer pressure is influencing decisions. •Analyze problems in terms of the academic, social, personal, and career information needed to solve them. • Predict the consequences of applying analytic strategies in terms of whether they are likely to be positive or negative. • Apply critical thinking skills systematically to solve problems and make decisions. •Analyze long-term assignments (e.g., projects, research papers) to determine the most appropriate strategies to use to complete the assignment • Use time management and task management skills to complete academic work of highly quality on time. • Use analytic strategies appropriately in the areas of career planning, course selection, and careertransitions. • Evaluate the effectiveness of analytic strategies in solving problems, making adjustments as necessary • Compare analytical methods across subject areas (e.g., the scientific method vs. geometric proof vs. literary analysis). • Use past experiences and general information to make decisions in a variety of situations. Understand the meaning and importance of career self- awareness and career goals • Describe traditional and nontraditional career choices and the ways they might relate to your chosen career goals. • Use the internet to access career planning information. • Explore awareness of personal abilities, skills, and interests. • Explain the importance of planning in career success. • Explain how personal skills, interests, and abilities relate to current career plans. • Develop a competency plan in your chosen career areas. • Develop skills to locate, evaluate, and interpret career information. • Demonstrate knowledge of the career planning process and its relationship to one's self- awareness and goals. • Analyze your career plan and goals in relationship to your self- awareness and personal goals. • Evaluate your career plan and goals in orderto make appropriate career plans. • Demonstrate respect for individual uniqueness and differences in the workplace. •Apply appropriate employability skills such as teamwork, problem-solving, and organizational skills when career planning. Understand the relationship among career goals and interests, personal interests, aptitudes and abilities • Explore the activities performed and skills used in various occupations. • Identify personal preferences and interests that influence career choice and success. • Exemplify (give examples of) how personal preferences and interests influence career choice and success. • Maintain a career-planning portfolio. • Use research and information resources to obtain career information. • Understand how changing economic and societal needs influence employment trends and future training. • Demonstrate knowledge about the changing workplace and its relationship to your interests, abilities, and aptitudes. •Apply academic and employment readiness skills in work-based learning situations such as internships, shadowing, and/or mentoring experiences. • Apply job readiness skills to seek employment opportunities and related academic opportunities. Understand the relationship among personal and academic decisions, career expectations and future life decisions • Recognize how the use of conflict management skills with peers and adults can affect future life success. • Recognize that a positive attitude toward work and learning affects future life success. • Summarize how interests, abilities, and achievement are related to achieving personal, social, educational, and career goals • Understand the relationship between educational achievement and career success. • Exemplify (give examples of) how educational achievement influences career success. • Describe the effect of work on lifestyle. • Explain how work can helpto achieve personal success and satisfaction. • Understand that the changing workplace requires lifelong learning and the ongoing acquisition of new skills. • Select course work that is related to your career plan. • Demonstrate howto write an effective resume and how to use a resume in a job search. • Demonstrate the knowledge of the rights and responsibilities of employers and employees. Understand the connection among attendance, col¬ laboration, course selection, grades, grade point aver¬ age, undergraduate admission, career expectations and life goals. • Recognize how to interact and work cooperatively in teams and groups. • Explain how working cooperatively with others as a team member can influence career choices and success. • Explain how attendance, school grades, and GPA are possible indicators of future academic and career success. • Compare the effects of personal and academic decisions upon career goals and life expectations. • Demonstrate the relationship between course selection in school, grades earned, and attendance with expectations of the world of work in the career fields identified. • Re-evaluate your educational plan to support appropriate career goals, interests, and abilities. • Utilize time-management and task management skills in career planning and goal setting. • Apply decision-making skills when implementing career planning, course selection, and career transition. • Demonstrate the importance of responsibility, dependability, punctuality, integrity, and effort in the workplace. Bloom's Taxonomy Connection REMEMBERING: Recalling information UNDERSTANDING: Explaining ideas or concepts APPLYING: Using info in another familiar situation ANALYZING, EVALUATING: Breaking info into parts to explore understanding and relationships. Justifying a decision or course of action. EVALUATING, CREATING: Justifying a decision or course of action. Generating new ideas, products or ways of viewing things. Created by: Renee Dilda, Wayne County Public Schools