WHAT I DO BEST:A Kindergarten Career Development Lesson

Presented by Jennifer FrederickSope Creek Elementary Professional School Counselor

A: Students will acquire the skills to investigate the world of work in relation to knowledge of self and to make informed career decisions.

B: Students will employ strategies to achieve future career goals with success and satisfaction.

C: Students will understand the relationship between personal qualities, education, and training and the world of work.

ASCA Standards:

Competencies:C:A1.3 TSW develop an awareness of personal abilities, skills and

interests. C:B1.2 TSW identify personal skills, interests, and abilities and relate

them to career choice. C:C1.3 TSW identify personal preferences and interests influencing

career choice and success. C:C2.1 TSW demonstrate how interests, abilities, and achievement

relate to achieving personal, social, and education and career goals.

Essential Questions:

What Do I Do Best?

How can that connect to careers?

Lesson Materials:

Personal items to show what I do best. (I include my favorite things like a running shoe, knitting needles, books, games, puppets, pictures of my family, a cooking item, etc).

• What I Do Best, by Allia Nolan

• butcher paper and markers

• What I Do Best handout

Activities:

Activating StrategyShare the items I’ve brought and why?

Teaching StrategiesDiscussion of $, wants and needs, community helpersRead the storyBrainstorm a web of ideas

Evaluation What I Do Best handout

Evaluation:

Name____________________________________

Write a sentence and draw a picture of what you do best.

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