Integrating Career Awareness into the ABE & ESOL Classroom – Handouts

To give the ICA curriculum maximum flexibility, the authors have designed the handouts so that you can use them as is or modify them to meet the needs of your classroom. For example, you might want to add local information, include pictorial graphics to aid lower-level ESOL students, or break an activity into smaller steps.

To download the handouts, click on the specific handout title below. The handouts are organized by the sub-section in which they appear in the full curiculum and all of them are in Rich Text Format (RTF).

Section I: The Cultural Context for Career Awareness

• Learning About Your Classmates: Who Did Which Job?
• How People Get Jobs

Section II: The Self-Exploration Process

• Career Planning Model
• Student Goal Scenarios
• Worksheet for Student Goal Scenarios
• Reading Guide for “Jesusita Navarro”
• Life Line Presentation Guide
• Things I Have Done
• Student Future Timeline
• Things I Like
• Skills Identification
• Things I Am Good At
• List of 246 Skills as Verbs
• Job Values Inventory
• Work Values Clarification
• Job Values Inventory Summary

Section III: Occupational Exploration

• Career Exploration on the Internet – A
• Career Exploration on the Internet – B
• Career Exploration on the Internet – C
• Finding Labor Market Information on the Internet
• Informational Interview Guide
• Informational Interview Log
• Workers’ Rights Vocabulary
• Discrimination and Equal Rights Protections
• Labor Unions

Section IV: Career Planning Skills

• Self-Sufficiency Standard Worksheet
• Types of Decision Making
• About Setting Goals
• Setting SMART Goals
• SMART Goal Worksheet
• Problem-Solving Worksheet
• Study Strategies by Learning Style
• College Awareness Assessment
• College Vocabulary 101
• Jeopardy Game Example
• Be a Smart Consumer of Education
• What are My Options?
• Private Occupational School Students
• Proprietary Schools
• Comparing Schools: What’s Important to You?
• Learning About the Admissions Process
• Learning About College Placement Tests
• Additional Information on Placement Testing
• Types of College Placement Tests
• Additional Information on Admissions
• Navigating College Websites: Online Scavenger Hunt
• Campus Map Checklist
• Campus Scavenger Hunt
• College Success Skills
• Don’t Take No for an Answer
• Needs Versus Wants Worksheet
• Spending Diary – Daily
• Spending Diary – Monthly Summary
• Identifying Your Income
• Monthly Expenses Worksheet
• Manage Your Credit Reports
• Career and Education Planning Worksheet

Appendix A: Lesson Planning

• Lesson Planning Template