Instructor directions are listed below:
- Explain that technology companies like Qualcomm have an array of technical and non-technical careers (you can list a few from the ring if you'd like) and that today students will be able to learn more about those careers and identify a potential future career for themselves.
- Distribute the career rings so that each student has their own ring.
- Ask students to independently review the jobs on the Career Ring and choose 2-3 careers that interest them. Then have students write the job titles they selected on their dry-erase board and/or in their Wearable Tech notebook
- Inform students that they may also add other careers that are not on the ring to their list of potential future careers.
- Ask students if they found a few careers that sounded interesting to them. Remind them that we all have different motivators for choosing specific careers; maybe it is the day-to-day responsibilities, the years of schooling required, or the amount of money earned that draws us to specific careers.
- Ask students if any of them found a career that did not interest them, something that they would definitely not want to do. Explain to students that finding what you don't like is often just as helpful as finding what you do like.
- Ask students if any of them found a career they had never heard of before. Ask what that career was and if it was something they might be interested in.
- Ask students if anyone would like to share a potential future career with the class.
If time permits, have students turn to a partner and complete a pair-share before sharing with the class. Ask students to share with their partner the potential future career they chose as well as an explanation of why they chose that career.
For further career exploration, have students explore the O*Net. All of the careers on the rings have search codes to easily find their related careers online. If students chose careers that were not on the ring, challenge them to search for that career on the O*Net and find the information listed on the back of the cards to compare.
You may also want to take time to have a discussion around the correlation between education and wages, that typically the more schooling you get, the more money you earn.