Kid Career Awareness System

by Dr. Mary Askew

Holland Codes Resource Center Hollandcodes.com

E-mail: learning4life.az@gmail.com

Purpose

See Rainbow Careers is a fun way to introduce children to careers. Careers are like rainbows. The world is filled with 1000's of careers.

The See Rainbow Careers products use vibrant colors, animated graphics, and visual learning techniques to help children build awareness of careers…

Required Materials The My Rainbow Careers Awareness System has the following components –

iPad/ iPod Kid Career Awareness App Instruction Sheets

Fact Sheets

Question and Answer Sheets

Career Activity Sheets

Color/ Career Chart

Posters

Itunes App

The See Rainbow Careers book is now available at the iTunes store.

Has six sections and 40 colorful pages

Provides information about – Career group characteristics

Career interest areas

Careers

Uses vibrant colors, animated graphics, and VISUAL learning techniques to help children build an career awareness.

Activity Sheets

The printed activity sheets have -

Six sections

72 items

The printed activity sheets can be administered to groups and individuals.

The estimated time to complete the activity sheets is 30 minutes, and activity sheets are self–scoring.

Posters

Over three hundred (300) Posters feature graphics, interest areas, and careers.

The Posters are Easy Scoring.

Color Chart

The Color Chart provides information about forty-four careers:

Job Titles

Color Career Group

Standards

The standards for the My Rainbow Careers Awareness System include –

National Career Development Guidelines (NCDG)

2009 New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards

Missouri Comprehensive Guidance Standard

21st Century Skills

Performance Goals

Goal PS1: Develop understanding of yourself to build and maintain a positive self-concept.

Goal ED1: Attain educational achievement and performance levels needed to reach your personal and career goals.

Goal CM3: Use accurate, current, and unbiased career information during career planning and management.

Academic Content Area – Social Studies Relationships of the individual and groups to

institutions and cultural traditions.

Career awareness includes an understanding of the world of work and the knowledge and skills needed for traditional and nontraditional jobs and careers.

Content Standard 1—Students access, synthesize, and evaluate information to communicate and apply social studies knowledge to real world situations.