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ALVERINE RAWLINS KAN 109 CAREER DEVELOPMENT CURRICULUM

Essential questions for a career development curriculum should foster self-reflection, exploration of career paths, and understanding of the skills and knowledge needed for success. These questions should be open-ended and promote critical thinking about personal strengths, interests, and how they align with various career options. They should also address the changing nature of work, the importance of adaptability, and the development of essential career management skills. 

Essential questions, which are open-ended, thought-provoking, and spark deeper thinking, can be effectively applied in career planning by helping students explore their interests, values, skills, and goals,… >>>

ALVERINE RAWLINS KAN 109

The Initial stage of Academic and Career Planning begins with students discovering their interest and strengths, and then guide them through career exploration and planning with constant monitoring throughout middle school and high school to restructure plans as needed.  Students minds develop and mature as they receive additional knowledge, network with different individuals and are exposed to real world applications, thus their interests may change and their strengths empowered, thus I support the idea of regular check-ins to ensure that students career planning is alignment with their current strengths and interests.

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Factors like gender identity, race or ethnicity, socioeconomic status, family, geography, ability, personality, and opportunity play, to varying degrees, a part in the development of one’s career path.  This makes the journey through the five stages of career development is an extremely personal and private involvement for each individual.  Becoming intimately familiar with these stages provide a roadmap for identifying the difficulties of one’s career, acquainting oneself with more informed decisions, achieve better preparation for future challenges, and strategies for success.  Identifying where you are in your career journey can inspire you to take charge of your professional development, seek… >>>

Google space offers so much opportunities for students to collaborate and share information especially when students are working on projects.  The team of students can keep track of what their peers are doing, team members can also provide comments or suggestions  on group members contribution.  Teachers can also monitor students work and can guide students in terms of whether they are on the right track or topic. Students can also ask questions for clarification. Moreover, teachers can also use it to share assignments and provide submission dates.  I am definitely going to try Zoho Notebook and Slide Share as they… >>>

AI platforms are becoming extremely popular and teachers are allowing students to utilize it to create documents. One of the issues that  I am experiencing with my students is plagiarism, students no longer want to brainstorm ideas and then utilize the AI platform for additional information or development.  One of the strategies that caught my eyes while reviewing the course is encouraging students to brainstorm ideas, and then use the AI (prezi AI) to enhance the document. For example when students are preparing resumes/letters, they can create a  skeleton resume and then transfer it to the AI platform for enhancement. … >>>

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Defining terms is important, as it enables students to understand and to practice communicating  the terms relating to the job especially in the field of technology. This also makes conversations more fluent and it helps to expedite activities..  It also makes  it easier to understand information and carry out responsibilities, especially when they enter the workforce.  Additionally, employers, supervisors feel more comfortable when employees utilise the language pertaining to the job, management feels more confident when designating positions. Individuals can also come across  as being knowlegeable and well informed

I am particularly impressed with students feedback on the myriad of ways in which students can utilise their ChatGPT experience to improve their general performance.  As an instructor I will continue to encourage students to use ChatGPT to organise their class notes making it easier for them to study and pass their exams. In addition, I will use it to help students trigger prompts or brainstroms ideas for writing especially when creating business letters.

Even though ChatGPT offer so much benefits like everything else, it has limitations which instructors and other users must be aware of.  Individuals have a tendency to misuse it without taking into consideration its inaccuracies. and unreliability to a certain extent.

For students who are easily distracted, it can be difficult at times. I  have to ensure that it is an engaging activity and it peaks their interest and relate it to real life situations.  Moreover, I have to monitor them a great deal because sometimes, Yes, the class can be engaged  in a technological activity but students may use the opportunity to respond to their friends on social media.

I am particulary excited about the many benefits that ChatGPT provides especially in education.  From what I have gathered it helps to make instructor's workload less burdensome and then on another note, it provides strategies for students who struggle especially those with disabilities, I believe this can transform their learning experience on a daily basis. In general,  I intend to use it to enhance the lesson plans of my IEP students and also for those  when they are required to prepare reearch papers or create letters.  My plan is  to allow them to use it to assist with the brainstroming… >>>