W. Va. Code R. § 126-45A-3

Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 50, December 13, 2024

Section 126-45A-3 - Learning Outcomes

3.1. Seventh Grade - the learner will:

3.1.1. Attain knowledge of the relationship of educational achievement to career opportunities.

3.1.1.1. Describe the importance of academic and vocational knowledge and skills in the world of work.

3.1.1.2. Identify skills and knowledge taught in school subjects that are needed in various occupational clusters.

3.1.1.3. Assess individual strengths and weaknesses in the basic academic disciplines.

3.1.1.4. Implement a plan of action for increasing proficiency in basic educational skills.

3.1.1.5. Assess the skills needed to cope with changing occupational requirements.

3.1.1.6. Describe how changing personal, social and economic needs relate to continued learning and training.

3.1.1.7. Describe how continued learning enhances one's ability to achieve personal and career goals.

3.1.1.8. Discuss how basic academic skills relate to the selection of major courses of study in high school.

3.1.1.9. Relate one's aptitudes and abilities to broad occupational areas.

3.1.2. Understand the attitudes necessary for success in work and learning.

3.1.2.1. Describe how success and failure in academic areas are an important aspect of learning.

3.1.2.2. Demonstrate effective learning habits and skills.

3.1.2.3. Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of personal traits to job success.

3.1.2.4. Relate knowledge of one's personal traits to a variety of occupations.

3.1.2.5. Relate personal attitudes, beliefs, interests and abilities to career profiles.

3.1.3. Attain skills for locating, understanding and using career information.

3.1.3.1. Identify various ways occupations can be classified.

3.1.3.2. Identify a number of occupations within an occupational classification or cluster for exploration.

3.1.4. Gain knowledge of skills necessary to obtain and maintain a job.

3.1.4.1. Demonstrate the importance of personal qualities (i.e., dependability, punctuality, getting along with others, etc.) to getting and keeping a job.

3.1.4.2. Discuss the variety and complexity of occupations.

3.1.4.3. Explain the importance of a variety of occupations and describe their place in society.

3.1.4.4. Describe how economic and societal needs and the work performed by the members of society are related.

3.1.4.5. Demonstrate knowledge of the economic contributions careers make to society.

3.1.4.6. Describe the effects that societal changes, economic changes and technology advancement have on occupations.

3.1.5. Attain skills in making decisions and choosing alternatives in planning for and pursuing tentative educational and career goals.

3.1.5.1. Demonstrate knowledge of the requirements for entering secondary and postsecondary educational and training programs.

3.1.5.2. Clarify personal belief and attitudes and explain how they affect decision making.

3.1.6. Attain knowledge of the interrelationship of life roles and careers.

3.1.6.1. Identify ways in which one performs work roles at home that satisfy needs of the family.

3.1.6.2. Identify personal goals that might be satisfied through a combination of work, community, social and family roles.

3.1.6.3. Assess personal leisure time choices in relationship to one's developing life style and the attainment of future educational and career goals.

3.1.6.4. Discuss advantages and disadvantages of various life styles.

3.1.6.5. Describe the interrelationships between family, career choice and leisure and their influence on one's life style.

3.1.7. Understand how sex-role stereotyping, bias and discrimination limit career choices, opportunity and achievement.

3.1.7.1. Describe stereotypes, biases and discriminatory behaviors that may limit choices, opportunities and achievement for women and men in certain occupations.

3.1.7.2. Describe problems, adjustments and advantages of entering a nontraditional occupation.

3.2. Eighth Grade - the learner will:

3.2.1. Attain skills for locating, understanding and using career information.

3.2.1.1. Demonstrate skills in using available school and community resources to learn about careers.

3.2.1.2. Identify sources of information for obtaining knowledge about careers that he/she is interested in exploring, including small business ownership.

3.2.1.3. Identify individuals in occupations who might be an information resource or role model.

3.2.1.4. Identify skills that are transferable from one occupation to another.

3.2.1.5. Identify sources of employment in the local community.

3.2.2. Attain knowledge of skills necessary to obtain and maintain a job.

3.2.2.1. Define terms and concepts used in describing employment opportunities opportunities and conditions.

3.2.2.2. Complete a job application form in a satisfactory manner.

3.2.2.3. Demonstrate the skills and attitudes essential for a successful job interview.

3.2.2.4. Demonstrate knowledge of the content of various courses that teach marketable skills.

3.2.3. Attain skills in making decisions and choosing alternatives in planning for and pursuing tentative educational and career goals.

3.2.3.1. Describe one's current life context as it relates to career decisions.

3.2.3.2. Describe career development as a continuous process with sequential series of choices.

3.2.3.3. Implement a strategy for career decision making.

3.2.3.4. Identify possible consequences of decision making.

3.2.3.5. Select school courses that reflect educational and career interests.

3.2.3.6. Describe how the expectations of other affect one's career plans.

3.2.3.7. Project decisions one will face in the future and describe means of facing them.

3.2.3.8. Identify ways in which decisions about education and work relate to other major life decisions.

3.2.4. Understand how sex-role stereotyping, bias and discrimination limit career choices, opportunity and achievement.

3.2.4.1. Discuss the importance of taking courses related to career interests, even though they may be most often taken by members of the opposite sex.

3.2.5. Understand the process of career exploration and planning.

3.2.5.1. Describe the meaning of career planning and what resources are available in the career center.

3.2.5.2. Demonstrate knowledge of vocational exploratory and introductory programs.

3.2.5.3. Identify tentative life and career goals.

3.2.5.4. Select school courses that meet one's developmental needs in terms of aptitudes and interests.

3.2.5.5. Acquire knowledge of academic and vocational programs offered at the high school level.

3.2.5.6. Become aware of and observe skills needed in a variety of occupations, including owning one's own business.

3.2.5.7. Identify strategies for managing personal resources (talents, time, money) to effect the achievement of educational and tentative career goals.

3.2.5.8. Complete an individual education and career plan for middle/junior high school, high school and postsecondary education and training.

W. Va. Code R. § 126-45A-3