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Unit Purpose:
The learners will explore making career choices, including factors that help make a career satisfying, by focusing on careers with animals as examples. They will research various careers with animals and share their findings as a service project with an appropriate student-selected audience(s). They will demonstrate their new knowledge and experience by reflecting and writing an evaluative response about their knowledge of career choices and the impact of their service.
Focus Question:
What factors might influence a person’s career choice, and their satisfaction in a chosen career?
Unit Objectives:
The learner will:
- define job satisfaction.
- identify and explore the concept of job satisfaction and how it relates to employee attitudes.
- explore myths about choosing a career.
- discover that a focus on “service,” as exemplified by jobs related to animal welfare, is found in highly satisfying careers.
- review and articulate the meaning of job satisfaction.
- draw conclusions about the role job satisfaction plays in making occupation/career choices.
- define and articulate the meaning of humane treatment and animal welfare.
- identify careers that promote animal welfare.
- research a career with animals and develop an oral/visual presentation.
- perform their career presentation for peer review.
- use peer feedback to enhance his/her presentation.
- share their presentations with a student-selected audience(s).
- reflect learning and impact of their service.
- write a response in which learners reflect about their plans for selecting a career.
Service Experience:
The learners will conduct research on careers that promote the humane treatment of and respect for animals. As a service project, the learners will present their research of careers with animals to an appropriate student-selected audience during the “Careers with Animals Expo”.
Unit Assessment:
The quality of participation in the classroom discussions as well as the research, planning, and presentations (both oral and visual) displayed prior to and during the “Careers with Animals” Expo, as well as the final written response will form the major portion of assessment for this lesson.
State Curriculum and Philanthropy Theme Frameworks:
See individual lessons for benchmark detail.
Lessons Developed and Piloted By:
Barbara Dillbeck
Curriculum Director
Learning to Give
Dennis VanHaitsma
Curriculum Consultant
Learning to Give
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