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| Self- Awareness T-Shirt |
| Author(s): Lynne C. Gates |
| Grades: 7 - 12 |
| Subject: Career Development and Occupational Studies |
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| Learning Context:
1. Students will create a paper T-Shirt based on their abilities, interests, and goals and will share this information with other students. 2. The students will begin to be knowledgeable about the world of work, explore career options, and relate personal skills, aptitudes, and abilities to future career decisions. This is a beginning self-awareness activity that will allow the students to start thinking of their interests, goals, and their own personalities. Students will be working closely together. They will learn how to positively interact with each other and learn how to accept positive feedback from other students. 3. Any career development activities used in Introduction to Occupations course at Monroe-Woodbury. 4. Students need to be open-minded, relaxed, be able to have fun, and be creative. LEARNING STANDARDS: ELA #4 ARTS #2 CDOS #1 |
| Procedure:
T-SHIRT ACTIVITY PREPARATION: Make newsprint, markers available. Have music, TV themes available. ANTICIPATORY SET: 1. Students should find a comfortable place in the classroom. The facilitator explains that a T-Shirt will be made that will reflect each student's personality. The facilitator can offer some examples of goals, strengths that he/she may see in some of their students. Students will need to learn how to accept positive feedback. (Have the TV theme music ready to play.) 2. Have each student cut the shape of a large T-Shirt out of newsprint. 3. Students will have two TV theme songs to complete each of the following: a. Draw their name in the MIDDLE of the T-shirt in graffiti style. b. On the upper left, draw two things you like to do in your spare time. c. On the upper right, draw the way you learn best. d. On the bottom left, draw what you would like to be doing in ten years. e. On the bottom right, draw a goal that you would like to accomplish within the next year. f. Under your name, write an adjective that describes you. g. Design the rest of your T-Shirt with your favorite sketches, doodles, colors, etc. h. Take a long rectangular piece of newsprint and tape it above the T-Shirt for the head and neck. i. Draw in your head and decorate it. j. During the next three minutes, have students walk around the classroom and write in an adjective on other students' T-shirts. Only positive words. CLOSURE: Hang individual T-shirts for everyone to see. Students will observe the different personalities of their classmates and discuss relationships to careers. The teacher will direct the reflection activities. |
| Instructional/Environmental Modifications:
Students will need to move desks together or find a comfortable spot on the floor to accommodate the newsprint. |
| Materials and Supplies:
STUDENT: 1. Newsprint 2. Markers TEACHER: 1. Copy of lesson 2. Music of TV themes |
| Time Required:
PLANNING: 1. Read/understand lesson 2. Prepare music 3. Collect materials IMPLEMENTATION/ASSESSMENT: 1. Two class periods |
| Assessment Tools and Techniques:
We will hang the posters so we can look at the individual personalities of the students. Students will observe the different personalities of their classmates and discuss relationships to careers. |
| Reflections:
Students will complete a PMI (plusses, minuses, and interesting items). |