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What’s A Hot Job? Lesson PlanWhat’s A Hot Job? Lesson Plan
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California Department of Education
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Grade
10th
Subjects
Social & Emotional Learning
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Duration
1 hr
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What’s A Hot Job?

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  • Career Readiness Glossary English
  • Career Readiness Glossary Spanish
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What jobs are the next best thing? Curious career scholars explore their options in lesson three of a five-part series. Pupils research job trends and labor statistics before discussing the factors that influence occupation trends. 

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

careers, career readiness, career planning, career skills, labor, career goals, future planning, american society, social issues, politics, life skills, personalities

Additional Tags

college and career readiness

Instructional Ideas

  • Ask learners to identify one hot job that suits their personality and research it to determine why there is a growing need for workers in that field
  • Assign an article that shows the top 30 hot jobs across the country, then discuss why these professions have grown in your area

Classroom Considerations

  • Make sure the class understands the difference between long- and short-term career planning as you work through the lesson

Pros

  • Assessments focus on discussion and collaboration to reinforce the importance of these skills
  • The teacher's guide is full of resources and contains printables and adaptations

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RI.9-10.2 RI.9-10.4 W.9-10.1.a W.9-10.2.a W.9-10.4 SL.9-10.1.a SL.9-10.2 SL.9-10.6 L.9-10.1.a L.9-10.2.a L.9-10.3.a L.9-10.4.a L.9-10.5.a L.9-10.6

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