Lesson 2: Career Clusters Survey
About This Lesson: This lesson introduces students to career exploration through the use of a Career Cluster Interest Survey designed to help them identify personal interests and connect those interests to potential career paths. By thoughtfully completing the survey, analyzing their results, and identifying their top three career clusters, students gain a clearer understanding of how their preferences, skills, and strengths relate to different sectors of the economy. The lesson emphasizes the importance of self-assessment, reflection, and honest engagement in the career planning process. Through guided instruction, independent work, and reflective writing, students develop self-awareness and begin to make informed decisions about future educational and career goals.
Lesson Plan & Other Important Documents
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Prompt:
“What job do you think you want to have as an adult and why?”
“What job do you think you want to have as an adult and why?”
Step 1: Watch the video. It will discuss what a career clusters survey is, why it is important, and how to complete it and print it.
Step 2: After you watch the video, please complete your Career Clusters Survey and then print it as a PDF.
Step 3: After you print the results of your Career Clusters Survey, attach it to lesson 2 in Schoology.
Alphabetized List of 50 Difficult Terms
- Accounting – The process of recording, analyzing, and managing financial information.
- Analytical thinker – Someone who breaks problems into parts to understand them.
- Anticipate – To predict or prepare for something before it happens.
- Audiovisual technologies – Tools that combine sound and visuals, such as video, film, and digital media.
- Authority – The power or right to make decisions and enforce rules.
- Blueprint – A detailed technical drawing that shows how something should be built.
- Business law – Laws that govern how businesses operate and interact.
- Compassionate – Showing care and concern for others’ well-being.
- Conscientious – Careful, responsible, and thorough in work.
- Coordinated – Able to use the body efficiently and smoothly.
- Decisive – Able to make decisions quickly and confidently.
- Detail-oriented – Paying close attention to small but important parts of a task.
- Dimension – A measurement of length, width, or height.
- Drafting – Creating technical drawings used in engineering or construction.
- Economics – The study of how resources, money, and goods are produced and used.
- Electronics – Technology involving electrical circuits and devices.
- Experimentation – Testing ideas to discover what works best.
- Financial services – Businesses that manage money, such as banks, investment firms, and insurance companies.
- First responder – A person trained to respond immediately to emergencies.
- Flexible – Able to adapt to change easily.
- Framework – A structured system or set of rules used to guide actions or decisions.
- Innovative – Able to introduce new ideas or methods.
- Intuitive – Understanding something instinctively without needing detailed reasoning.
- Inquisitive – Curious and eager to learn or ask questions.
- Interpret – To explain the meaning of information or data.
- Law enforcement – Careers focused on enforcing laws and maintaining public safety.
- Logistics – Managing the movement of people, goods, or materials.
- Marketing – Promoting and selling products or services.
- Mechanically inclined – Naturally skilled at understanding and working with machines.
- Methodical – Doing work in a careful, organized, step-by-step way.
- Natural resources – Materials found in nature that people use, such as water, soil, forests, and minerals.
- Negotiate – To discuss and reach an agreement through compromise.
- Non-materialistic – Valuing people and experiences more than money or possessions.
- Objective – Based on facts rather than personal opinions or feelings.
- Occupational health – A field focused on safety and health in the workplace.
- Persistent – Continuing effort despite obstacles or challenges.
- Persuasive – Able to convince others to agree or take action.
- Precision – Accuracy and exactness in work or measurement.
- Process design – Planning efficient steps to complete a task or produce something.
- Psychology – The study of the human mind and behavior.
- Reliability – The quality of being dependable and trustworthy.
- Self-motivated – Able to work hard without needing constant encouragement.
- Self-reliant – Able to depend on yourself rather than others.
- Service-minded – Focused on helping others and meeting their needs.
- Supervision – Oversight or management by someone in authority.
- Tactful – Careful with words and actions to avoid offending others.
- Tangible – Something that can be physically touched or seen.
- Technology education – Learning about tools, systems, and technical skills.
- Tenacious – Persistent and unwilling to give up, even when work is difficult.
- Visualization – The ability to picture something in your mind before it exists.
No data to review for this lesson.
Higher Level Question: How can understanding your career cluster survey results influence your long-term educational choices and career planning, and in what ways might these results change as your interests, skills, and experiences develop over time?
Instructions For Paper Version Of Lesson
Career Clusters Survey Part 1 (1:07)
Directions: This video will teach you how to do the first four pages of the Career Clusters Survey
Career Clusters Survey Part 2 (1:30)
Directions: This video will teach you how to tally your Career Clusters Survey and see the three top sections.
Directions: The video below will give you directions for your reflection.
Specific Jobs To Each Cluster
Directions: After you complete your Career Clusters Survey, go and visit the clusters that you had the highest numbers in. It will give you a list of jobs that you might be interested in.
| cluster_1_jobs_and_pathway.pdf |
| cluster_2_jobs_and_pathway.pdf |
| cluster_3_obs_and_pathway.pdf |
| cluster_4_jobs_and_pathway.pdf |
| cluster_5_jobs_and_pathway.pdf |
| cluster_6_jobs_and_pathway.pdf |
| cluster_7_jobs_and_pathway.pdf |
| cluster_8_jobs_and_pathway.pdf |
| cluster_9_jobs_and_pathway.pdf |
| cluster_10_jobs_and_pathway.pdf |
| cluster_11_jobs_and_pathway.pdf |
| cluster_12_jobs_and_pathway.pdf |
| cluster_13_jobs_and_pathway.pdf |
| cluster_14_jobs_and_pathway.pdf |
| cluster_15_jobs_and_pathway.pdf |
| cluster_16_jobs_and_pathway.pdf |
Difficult Words
Explanation: Anytime a student asks me for a definition on a word, I put it below.
Self-reliant: means having the ability to depend on oneself for needs, decisions, and problem-solving without relying heavily on others.
Agriculture: agriculture is farming or growing a garden.
Agriculture: agriculture is farming or growing a garden.