College and Career Awareness

prepare resume → submit → interview → follow-up).

Provide word banks for writing/speaking tasks.

●​ Career Path Mapping: Use a timeline graphic organizer to map the steps needed to reach a chosen career (e.g., education → certification → entry-level job). ●​ Mock Interview Reflection: After a mock interview, have students sequence what happened first, next, last. Then use a "Claim + Evidence" organizer to express what they learned or what went well. ●​ Job Application Process Chart: Use a step-by-step flowchart (identify job → prepare resume → submit → interview → follow-up). ●​ Career Research Essay: Show a model essay highlighting transitions, topic sentences, career facts, and citations. ●​ Thank-You Email Model: Annotate with formal greetings, purpose statements, gratitude, and sign-off. ●​ CTE Goal Statement: Provide a sample with annotations showing how to state an aspiration, connect to a CTE pathway, and outline next steps. ●​ Bilingual Journals: Allow students to respond to interest assessments or career reflections using both languages. ●​ Partner Share: In pairs, allow one student to explain career goals first in their home language, then in English. ●​ Dual-Language Word Walls: Post key terms in English and students’ home languages. Allow opportunities for students to use a mix of their home language and English. Provide annotated models for extended writing or speaking.

Provide sentence frames and word banks for discussions.

●​ Career Comparison: Use sentence frames like: ​ “This career requires more training because…” ​ “I prefer ___ because it matches my skills in…” ​ ●​ Interview Role-Play: Sentence starters for mock interviews: ​ “In my last role, I…” ​ “I’m interested in this job because…”

Provide visual vocabulary cards to build content knowledge.

●​ CTE Pathway Cards: Include images, definitions, and examples for terms like “concentrator,” “completer,” and “certification.” ●​ Career Tools or Settings: Cards showing tools (e.g., welding torch, computer software) or environments (hospital, lab, construction site). ●​ Education Level Cards: Use visuals to represent technical colleges, community colleges, universities, apprenticeships, etc.

●​ Career Debate: Students take positions on topics like “Is college necessary for success?” or “Are nontraditional careers undervalued?” and defend them

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