My Dream Job

Create or expand your college essay and career unit with a business and postsecondary writing activity. The exercise works for college-bound or job-hunting junior or senior learners. They bring their research concerning a college or...

Introduce language learners to the world of work with a series of activities that illustrate the skills required by a variety of jobs.

Students describe self-esteem and what it means to them. In this health related activity, students work through 4 exercises to become more aware of what self-esteem means to them and others in the classroom. The activity ends with an...

Student groups design a presentation in Power Point according to the vocational school being researched. Then, all three will be put together as one unit to discover vocational schools in the area that have the programs in which they are...

Students define success. They analyze what makes people successful and develop their own plans to become successful people. After a class discussion about success, students analyze the story of a young adult who is working in the real...

Introduce your class to ghostwriting while practicing comprehension. From The New York Times' The Learning Network, this article covers the topic of ghostwriting for cookbooks. There are blank spaces and a word bank. Learners can use the...

Cover Candy from Of Mice and Men with this short online interactive quiz. Class members answer ten multiple choice and true/false questions about the character Candy. These are basic questions that you could use as a check for...

In this grammar worksheet, students determine the correct preposition to fill in forty blanks to make each one grammatically correct.

Students explore various careers and interview three adults about their careers. They complete a career exploration packet, create a poster and a PowerPoint of a career that interests them and shadow someone who has that career.

Students develop critical thinking skills while exploring new ideas about success, discuss people they consider to be successful, and identify how they measure or define their own personal success.