College and Career Awareness

●​ Use a sample like “Chef” to model:

○​ First : Take the Intro to Foods class. ○​ Next : Earn industry certification, such as the food handler’s permit. ○​ Last : Enter a culinary internship or apprenticeship, or a postsecondary program.

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●​ Use a sample like “Event Planner” to model:

○​ First : Take the Hospitality and Tourism Class. ○​ Next : Earn industry certification. ○​ Last : Enter a Hospitality internship or apprenticeship, or a postsecondary program.

● Provide a vocabulary word bank. ●​ Provide relevant vocabulary word banks for:

○​ Career clusters (e.g., Hospitality & Tourism, Culinary) ○​ Skills (e.g., collaborate, analyze, design) ●​ Sentence starters for opinion writing or speaking: ○​ “I believe ___ because ___.” ○​ “One skill needed for this career is ___.” ● Provide an annotated model. ●​ Share a sample student response with highlighted elements: ○​ Topic sentence ○​ Supporting details

○​ CTE vocabulary- Hospitality & Tourism, and or Culinary terms ○​ Transition words

● Provide sentence frames and discussion practice opportunities. ●​ Model using sentence frames in a Think-Pair-Share format: ○​ “A career in ___ interests me because ___.” ○​ “This pathway requires skills in ____, such as ___.” ● Provide visual vocabulary cards. ●​ Visual cards that include an image, definition, and the career cluster it relates to. ○​ Example: A chef's knife image for "Culinary Arts" → Hospitality and Tourism cluster. ○​ Example: A suitcase image for "Travel and Tourism" → Hospitality and Tourism cluster. ●​ Career Pathway Project Fair ○​ Students research a Utah CTE career cluster (e.g., Hospitality, Events & Tourism) and create a trifold display , digital presentation , or video outlining: ■​ Careers in the cluster ■​ Required academic skills and certifications ■​ Education and training pathways ■​ Salary and job outlook

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