Course Fee: There Is a $25 Course Fee for This Class

Career Technical
Career Preparedness
Course Syllabus

Course Fee: There is a $25 Course Fee For this class

Course Description:The Career Preparedness course focuses on three integrated areas of instruction-academic planning and career development, financial literacy, and technology. Course content ranges from college and career preparation to computer literacy skills to ways to manage personal finances and reduce personal risk. The area of technology is designed to be interwoven throughout course instruction. Mastery of the content standards provides a strong foundation for student acquisition of the skills, attitudes, and knowledge that enables them to achieve success in school, at work, and across the life span.

Career and Technical Student Organizations: Future Business Leaders of America-Phi Beta Lambda (FBLA-PBL), the Association for Marketing Students (DECA), and SkillsUSA are cocurricular components of this course. These student organizations enhance classroom instruction, develop leadership skills, and provide opportunities for professional growth and service.

Prerequisites and Standards: None. This course is a prerequisite to other Business and Information Technology courses offered at Walker High School.For example:

PROGRAM GOAL: To prepare students to be college and career ready and equip them with the skills needed for business and industry, continuing education, and lifelong learning.

Course Goals: The goals of the course are to:

• Demonstrate knowledge of a systematic approach to a decision-making process, including factors regarding academic planning and career development, financial literacy, and technology.
• Understand the effects of workplace behavior.
• Analyze personal skills, interests, and abilities and relate them to current career opportunities.
• Determine the correlation of personal preference, education, and training to the demands of the workforce.
• Investigate the postsecondary/higher education admissions process, including completing admission and financial aid applications.
• Examine the employment process, including searching for a job, filling out a job application writing a resume, developing and practicing interviewing skills, and completing required employment forms.
• Generate an electronice portfolio.
• Diagnose problems with hardware, software, and advanced network systems.
• Demonstrate advanced technology skills, including compressing, converting, importing, exporting, backing up files, and transferring data among applications.
• Compare functions of various operating systems
• Analyze cultural, social, economic, environmental, and political effects, and trends of technology to assess emerging technologies and forecast innovations.
• Demonstrate appropriate digital citizenship through safe, ethical, and legal use of technology systems and digital content.
• Utilize an online learning-management system to engage in collaborative learning projects, discussions, and assessments beyond the traditional classroom that are goal oriented, focused, project-based, and inquiry-oriented.
• Explain specific steps that consumers can take to minimize exposure to identify theft, fraudulent schemes, unethical sales practices, and exorbitant service fees.
• Develop a plan for managing earning, spending, saving, and giving using spreadsheets, online resources, or commercial software.
• Evaluate the effective of personal preferences, advertising, marketing, peer pressure, and family history on consumer choices and decision making in the marketplace.
• Distinguish differences between the purpose of saving and the objectives associated with investing.
• Analyze various types of financial institutions.
• Demnostrate how to manage checking and savings accounts, balance bank statements, and use online financial services.
• Determince advantages and disadvantages of using credit.
• Examine why credit ratings and credit reports are important to consumers.
• Determine the type of insurance associated with different types of risks, including automobile, personal and professional liability, home, apartment, property, health, life, long-term care, and disability.
• Develop a plan for financial security in the event of a disaster, including secure storage of financial records and personal documents, available cash reserve, household inventory list, and medical records retention.

Course Outline

1. Personal Decision Making
2. Academic Planning and Career Development
3. Technology Skills Applications
4. Managing Finances and Budgeting
5. Saving and Investing
6. Banking and Financial Institutions
7. Credit and Dept
8. Risk Management and Insurance

Absence policy:It is the student’s responsibility to keep up with class assignments and attendance.

Check-In/Out Policy: Students should refer to the Student Code of Conduct for check-in/out policy. Excessive check-in/out will be dealt with severely.

Tardiness Policy: Students are expected to attend class on time.Students should refer to the Student Code of Conduct for excessive tardiness.

Make-up Policy: Work missed due to an excused absence may be made-up.The student will get two days for every one day absent to make up work. All work not made up will be counted as a zero.

Academic Misconduct: Academic misconduct or dishonesty such as cheating and plagiarism is not permitted in this class. Acts of suspected academic misconduct will be reported to the Administration. Please refer to the Code of Conduct for specific consequences for academic misconduct.

Students with Disabilities: Jasper City Schools, in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, will make every reasonable accommodation for students with special learning needs, including hearing impaired and visually impaired students and students with diagnosed learning disabilities, as well as other classifications of disability specified in the Act.

Eating and Drinking in the Classroom: Eating, drinking and gum chewing in the classroom is strictly prohibited.

Cultural Diversity: This program of study seeks to educate students to live and work in a global community of increasingly interdependent countries and is dedicated to the concept of cultural diversity.

Equipment/Supplies, Tools, Work Aids:Students are provided with basic materials for course completion. Students must bring a pencil or pen and a folder to class every day.

Grading:Production, notebook checks, timed writings and written tests will be given during the semester. Students are reminded to write their full name in the upper right hand corner of the paper, class period and date. The grading scale for production and timed writing scale after deduction of errors is as follows:

Assessment Procedures:Students will be evaluated each six week period on a points earned out of points attempted grading scale. Ex: A student has earned a total number of 1460 points throughout the 6 weeks. There was a possible point value of 1700. The student’s grade will be determined by the following process: 1460/ 1700 = .858. Therefore, the student will have earned an 86 for the 6 weeks.

Available Industry Credentials:MOS, IC3

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