6th Grade
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Xello Lessons
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Explore Learning Styles
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Students investigate visual, auditory, and tactile learning styles, and explore how understanding their own learning style can help them in school and on the job.
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7th Grade
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Xello Lessons
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Explore Career Matches
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Students investigate central, secondary, and other aspects of the career match assessment, and how they relate to careers, reflect on their results, and explore the aspects for a career that interests them.
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Discover Learning Pathways
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Students investigate their postsecondary pathway options, explore the postsecondary pathways to various careers, and evaluate the pathways they could take to a career that interests them.
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7th Grade Mapping My Future
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Xello Lessons
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Interests
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Students reflect on some of the interests they have saved in Xello's interest inventory, explore the link between interests and various careers, and investigate how their interests match up with a career they like.
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School Subjects at Work
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Students relate school subjects to various tasks, reflect on their favorite school subject, and explore ways to use their favorite school subject in a career that interests them.
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Decision Making
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Students understand the importance of making informed, responsible decisions when faced with important choices. They learn about the importance of considering the consequences of potential decisions, explore the difference between gut and logic decisions, and reflect on an important decision they've recently made.
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Biases and Career Choices
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Students identify biases of gender, ethnicity, ability, and class in the workplace and explore how biases can influence career choices.
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Skills
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Students explore the skills required to perform a various activities, as well as the link between their skills and career goals.
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School Counseling Lessons
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7th Grade School Counseling
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Includes exploration activities to follow up with assessments and lessons, career cluster exploration
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8th Grade
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Explore Career Matches
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Students investigate central, secondary, and other aspects of the career match assessment, and how they relate to careers, reflect on their results, and explore the aspects for a career that interests them.
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Transition to High School
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Students explore ways to make their transition to high school easier and more successful. They identify questions and concerns they have about entering high school; explore clubs, activities, and other resources to help handle transition to high school; and develop other strategies to deal with transitions.
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School Counseling Lessons
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8th Grade School Counseling
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Includes exploration activities to follow up with assessments and lessons, career cluster exploration, high school course selection,
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9th Grade
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Xello Lessons
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Personality Styles
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Students investigate personality styles, and explore how their own personality style can help them at home, school, work, and other areas of their life.
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Exploring Career Factors
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Students further explore the Investigate important factors: work/life balance, money, making a difference, education, interests, growth; assess which of these 6 core factors are important to them when making a career decision, and why; and prioritize the 6 core factors that influence their career decisions.
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Getting Experience
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Students explore different ways they can get work experience now. They identify several ways to get experience while still in school: community service / volunteerism, co-op programs, part-time job, internships, etc. and assess which type of experience is best suited for their career interests and goals.
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Study Skills and Habits
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Students identify skills, habits, and behaviors they need to learn successfully in high school, explore potential obstacles to success in their schoolwork (such as lack of motivation, distractions, and lapses in self-confidence), and plan how to develop positive study habits and behaviors.
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School Counseling Lessons
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Freshman Success
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Includes: Graduation requirements, GPA/Class rank, course scheduling
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10th Grade
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Xello Lessons
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Work Values
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Students explore their own work values, and investigate careers that they may find satisfying based on their values.
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Careers and Lifestyle Costs
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Students identify some of their most important lifestyle goals and assess whether or not they can achieve their lifestyle goals in a career that interests them.
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Workplace Skills and Attitudes
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Students explore skills and behaviors that employers look for, such as time management, dependability, good attitude, communication skills, problem solving, etc. Students explain why these skills and behaviors are important to various careers, how they manifest on the job, and assess their own employability skills.
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School Counseling Lessons
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Sophomore Conferencing
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Includes: Credit / graduation planning, post-secondary planning, meeting with parent / guardian, course scheduling
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11th Grade
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Xello Lessons
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Choosing a College or University
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Students identify which factors are important to them in a potential postsecondary school, and investigate how a college or university stacks up to their priorities.
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Career Demand
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Students learn about job projections and outlook, analyze factors that impact job demand, such as changes in technology, demographics, business practices or production methods, consumer preferences, and workplace restructuring, and explore how their career plans may be shaped by demand for a career that interests them.
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Entrepreneurial Skills
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Students identify the skills and characteristics that make entrepreneurs successful, investigate paths to becoming an entrepreneur (e.g. starting your own business, buying a franchise, etc.). Students explore the benefits and challenges of becoming an entrepreneur and investigate ways to apply entrepreneurial skills within a career that interests them (develop entrepreneurial opportunities for themselves with any career).
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School Counseling Lessons
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Junior Lessons
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16 Personalities profile, Career Tours, ASVAB, ACT
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12th Grade
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Xello Lessons
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Defining Success
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Students explore what success means to them in various aspects of life, including their personal life, school, and career, and explore ways they can make a difference and achieve success in a career that interests them.
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Career Backup Plans
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Students understand the importance of career backup plans, and explore potential backup careers for themselves.
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Job Interviews
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Students explore ways to prepare for a job interview, describe their own abilities and qualifications in the context of an interview, investigate job interview questions in the context of a career that interests them, and explore appropriate post-interview behaviors and actions.
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School Counseling Lessons
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Senior Supports
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Individual Senior Conferences, Financial Aid Night, Senior Post-Secondary Planning
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