Goal-Setting and Work-Based Learning | Origin: EC153
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Strengthening CTE Instruction with Clear Learning Goals --> Goal-Setting and Work-Based Learning
Post what you've learned about this topic and how you intend to apply it. Feel free to post questions and comments too.
Setting goals and work-based learning go hand in hand with students gaining real world experience for the world of work. Goals in job interviews, on work assignments and work sites, and for long- and short-term career objectives can greatly help students carve and navigate a path for their individual careers that can be beneficial, fruitful and fulfilling for a life's worth of work.
One of the things I hope we can improve on next school year is to spend more time priming our students for the interview process, prepping them for having conversations with potential employers in the actual interviews. Coaching them, if you will, and also helping them to prepare their resumés so that the employers can have a full picture on work and education experience the students may already have.
CTE is such a great vehicle for high school students to obtain real world work experience while still in school, so by the time they graduate, they will have valuable work experience to make themselves that much more marketable. And with that experience, a clearer path for their careers will be established. But not without setting goals and having work-based learning in their wheelhouse, as these two elements are two of the crucial building blocks for the foundation to great careers
Clear goal settings can be beneficial during job interviews. I learned the STAR approach to explaining a challenging situation that I faced when asked to do so.
Comment on Randice Nelson's post: I agree Randice! How do you make that clear/obvious to learners? We would also love to know what your biggest takeaway was from this course. Thank you!
Comment on Robyn Bingham's post: Fantastic observation! Consider checking out the UDL 3.0 considerations on Goal Setting. We would also love to know how this course has impacted your approach to designing learning... are you doing anything differently or amplifying something you have already done?
Setting clear learning goals helps students present a compelling career vision and align their aspirations with job opportunities.
Setting learning goals will be able to help students not only in their CTE class but in their future job as well.
