It Just Comes Naturally--Determining our natural talents

    This week, the students went through a list of natural talents by True Colors groups.  After reading through the sections, they were to highlight the things they they can do naturally and enjoyed doing. 

The students were amazed but also confused.  Many thought that because they determined that they were certain color predominantly that they couldn't also have talents that belong to other color groups.  It was neat to see them learn new things about themselves.

Reflection:

Despite this being a neat lesson, I don't know if I would do this as a separate lesson next year.  It would be good to bring up the natural talents in the True Colors lesson. Also, we will have to work to go through the talents listed and simplify them for our students.  

Things of Value: KTC finds out what they value most in a job

This week at KTC, we attempted to have our students think about what they value especially when it comes to the workplace.  We used the resources provided on the Career OneStop website to tell the students what the 6 work values were and then we had them use a Work Values Assessment  (online) to see what their top 2-3 values would be.




After finding out their 2-3 work values, they could put it into another website and it would cross reference jobs with those work values.  Each one of the jobs that would come up on that list also was linked to the Career One Stop website so they could learn more about the career.

We also tried to talk about what the difference between ethics and values.  According to a career tech education teachers curriculum they had posted online, there are going to be many jobs where someones values will be put to the test by putting them in situations where they may have to go against what they have been taught to value.  It seemed like a really interesting thing to present to the students.


Reflection:
I don't think I would bring up ethics next year.  I think I would just have students define what a value is,  have them do the work values assessment to determine their 3 work values, and then have them put it into the website to show them the jobs that corresponded with their work values.  The day we did this in class, we had a technical problem that we couldn't get the students to do it online but did it with a paper grid and the different situations which they then ranked themselves.  Hopefully next time, we will be able to have the students do it online.

Links:
Career OneStop Work Values Homepage
Six Core Values Website
Work Values Cards
Work Values Online Assessment