Monica Hagler

Advanced BTA

UNIT TOPIC: Word Processing and Presentation Applications1/8/18-1/12/18

Title of Lesson:
What’s your Why and how does that Translate into your Career Goals / Total Time on Task:5 Days
Content Standard:
9. Utilize various Internet search engines to research business topics.
14. Determine career and entrepreneurial opportunities, responsibilities, and educational and credentialing requirements related to business technology professions.
Lab Access:
Required for Students☒
Optional for Students☐
Not Needed for Students☐
Overview/Annotation:
In this lesson students will take personality tests to see what careers they may be best suited for and how our personalities usually correlate into jobs that we are passionate about and give us fulfillment. We will then take our safety test. After the safety test we will start to think about our “why” in life. What do we want out of our life and how can that be fulfilled through a promising career. Students will type up a minimum of 1 page on Word and submit for a grade upon completion. All this will tie into the next assignment where we will begin research on a business tech profession that ties into some of our traits. We will create a Sway presentation and research various business tech careers and students will present to the class upon completion.
Essential Question(s):
  1. How do Business technology careers affect our society?
  2. How to you obtain these type of careers?
  3. What will this career look like 10 years from now? Will it still exist?
  4. What responsibilities does this career entail?
  5. In what ways do our personalities dictate our careers?
  6. Will this be a satisfying career for your personality?

Learning Objective(s): The students will:
  1. Research credentials and requirements for a business technology career.
  2. Discover how their personality drives there interests.
  3. Research business topics online.
  4. Utilize various search engines in their research.
  5. Determine career and entrepreneurial opportunities in business tech fields.

Conceptual Outline:
  1. Personality Test
  • 16personalities.com
  1. What’s Your Why Paper
  1. Sway Presentation on Business Tech Profession

Procedures/Activities:
Day 1
  1. Class Discussion: Sign into their User logins on the desktops and then their Google Classroom accounts.
  2. Class Activity: Students will take a personality test and post results to Google Classroom.
Day 2
  1. Student Activity: Have students take a Safety Test
  2. Class Discussion: Explain what a personal “why” is and then explain the assignment to the students
  3. Class Activity: Have students begin brainstorming and jotting down their reason for their dreams and start typing up a minimum of 1 page paper on their why.
Days 3-4
  1. Class Activity: Continue working on Why paper
Day 5
  1. Class Discussion: Explain our Sway Presentation Assignment and have students begin creating a Sway on a business tech profession of their choosing that they will present upon completion.

Assessment:
  1. Personality Test
  2. Safety Test
  3. Why Paper
  4. Sway Presentation

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