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Ohio FCS Standards and Academic Connections
Standard: Design a Career Blueprint
Benchmark A. Update an individual career plan based on self-knowledge and interests.
Descriptors:
- Update personal profile of interests, attitudes, goals, skills, and expectations related to career options.
- Explore career information resources.
- Interpret factors affecting career choices.
- Differentiate among education and training opportunities (e.g., military, college, apprenticeship, career and technical education, entrepreneurship).
- Construct individual career plan.
Correlated English Language Arts Academic Content Benchmarks
- Use appropriate self-monitoring strategies for comprehension. (Reading Process C, 8-10; Reading Process C, 11-12)
- Produce functional documents that report, organize and convey information and ideas accurately, foresee readers’ problems or misunderstandings and that include formatting techniques that are user friendly. (Writing Applications C, 11-12)
- Organize information from various resources and select appropriate sources to support central ideas, concepts and themes. (Research C, 8-10)
- Evaluate the usefulness and credibility of data and sources and synthesize information from multiple sources. (Research C, 11-12)
Standard: Design a Career Blueprint
Benchmark B: Practice job search skills.
Descriptors:
- Explore resume writing styles.
- Identify job hunting skills including:
- Find job postings;
- Send out resumes;
- Schedule interviews;
- Prepare for interviews.
- Cite examples of jobs and needed qualifications or background.
- Explore employment opportunities locally and nationally.
Correlated English Language Arts Academic Content Benchmarks
- Use appropriate self-monitoring strategies for comprehension. (Reading Process C, 8-10; Reading Process C, 11-12)
- Produce functional documents that report, organize and convey information and ideas accurately, foresee readers' problems or misunderstandings and that include formatting techniques that are user friendly. (Writing Applications C, 11-12)
- Use a variety of strategies to enhance listening comprehension. (Communication: Oral and Visual A, 8-10; Communication: Oral and Visual A, 11-12)
- Select and use effective speaking strategies for a variety of audiences, situations and purposes. (Communication: Oral and Visual C, 11-12)
Standard: Manage Personal Transitions
Benchmark B. Examine various influences on personal and academic life transitions.
Descriptors:
- Compare risks and benefits associated with personal and academic choices.
- Relate physical, emotional, and social development factors to life transition points.
- Gather reliable resources that support planning for personal and academic success.
- Assess personal interests and developmental assets.
- Use examples of goal-setting and planning strategies to guide life transitions.
- Describe actions and attributes (e.g., honesty, integrity, fairness) needed during times of transition.
- Describe decision-making steps related to context, information sources, alternatives, and consequences of functioning in a new situation.
- Explain the role of feedback in modifying behaviors.
- Identify skills needed to effectively give and receive feedback.
Correlated English Language Arts Academic Content Benchmarks
- Apply reading comprehension strategies to understand grade-appropriate text. (Reading Process A, 8-10; Reading Process A, 11-12)
- Demonstrate comprehension of print and electronic text by responding to questions (e.g., literal, inferential, evaluative and synthesizing). (Reading Process B, 8-10; Reading Process B, 11-12)
- Organize information from various resources and select appropriate sources to support central ideas, concepts and themes. (Research C, 8-10)
Correlated Mathematics Academic Content Benchmarks
- Apply mathematical knowledge and skills routinely in other content areas and practical situations. (Mathematical Processes B, 8-10)
- Locate and interpret mathematical information accurately, and communicate ideas, processes and solutions in a complete and easily understood manner. (Mathematical Processes H, 8-10)
- Assess the adequacy and reliability of information available to solve a problem. (Mathematical Processes C, 11-12)
