Lesson Resources for Canadian Educators - Xello 6-12

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Decision Making

In this lesson, students will understand the importance of making informed, responsible decisions when faced with important choices. They learn about the importance of considering the consequences of potential decisions, explore the difference between gut and logic decisions, and reflect on an important decision they've recently made.

Interests

In this lesson, students will reflect on some of the interests they have saved in Xello's interest inventory, explore the link between interests and various careers, and investigate how their interests match up with a career they like.

School Subjects at Work

In this lesson, students will relate school subjects to various tasks, reflect on their favourite school subject, and explore ways to use their favourite school subject in a career that interests them.

Time Management

In this lesson, students will explain why time management is important in school and on the job, create a time budget to assess how they currently manage their time, and explore ways to improve their time management skills.

Biases and Career Choices

In this lesson, students will identify biases of gender, ethnicity, ability, and class in the workplace and explore how biases can influence career choices.

Discover Learning Pathways

In this lesson, students will investigate their postsecondary pathway options, explore the postsecondary pathways to various careers, and evaluate the pathways they could take to a career that interests them.

Explore Learning Styles

In this lesson, students will investigate visual, auditory, and tactile learning styles, and explore how understanding their own learning style can help them in school and on the job.

Jobs and Employers

In this lesson, students will explore ways to find employment (e.g. job boards, networking, etc.), reflect on the advantages and disadvantages to various work search strategies, and research potential employers in their community.

Explore Career Matches

In this lesson, students will investigate central, secondary, and other aspects of the career match assessment, and how they relate to careers, reflect on their results, and explore the aspects for a career that interests them.

Self-Advocacy

In this lesson, students will understand the concept of self-advocacy, identify situations where they may need to advocate for themselves or issues they may want to advocate for, identify skills and behaviors required to effectively advocate for themselves, such as leadership, confidence, and communication, and explore ways they can advocate for themselves in school, the community, at home, and in a career.

Skills

In this lesson, students will explore the skills required to perform a various activities, as well as the link between their skills and career goals.

Transition to High School

In this lesson, students will explore ways to make their transition to high school easier and more successful. They identify questions and concerns they have about entering high school; explore clubs, activities, and other resources to help handle transition to high school; and develop other strategies to deal with transitions.

Exploring Career Factors

In this lesson, students will further explore the Investigate important factors: work/life balance, money, making a difference, education, interests, growth; assess which of these 6 core factors are important to them when making a career decision, and why; and prioritize the 6 core factors that influence their career decisions.

Getting Experience

In this lesson, students will explore different ways they can get work experience now. They identify several ways to get experience while still in school: community service / volunteerism, co-op programs, part-time job, internships, etc. and assess which type of experience is best suited for their career interests and goals.

Personality Styles

In this lesson, students will investigate personality styles, and explore how their own personality style can help them at home, school, work, and other areas of their life.

Study Skills and Habits

In this lesson, students will identify skills, habits, and behaviors they need to learn successfully in high school, explore potential obstacles to success in their schoolwork (such as lack of motivation, distractions, and lapses in self-confidence), and plan how to develop positive study habits and behaviors.

Careers and Lifestyle Costs

In this lesson, students will identify some of their most important lifestyle goals and assess whether or not they can achieve their lifestyle goals in a career that interests them.

Program Prospects

In this lesson, students will distinguish between different types of postsecondary programs, such as apprenticeships and degree programs, explore career options related to different types of programs, and evaluate their program options in terms of their strengths, academic interests, and career interests.

Work Values

In this lesson, students will explore their own work values, and investigate careers that they may find satisfying based on their values.

Workplace Skills and Attitudes

In this lesson, students will explore skills and behaviors that employers look for, such as time management, dependability, good attitude, communication skills, problem solving, etc. Students explain why these skills and behaviors are important to various careers, how they manifest on the job, and assess their own employability skills.

Career Demand

In this lesson, students will learn about job projections and outlook, analyze factors that impact job demand, such as changes in technology, demographics, business practices or production methods, consumer preferences, and workplace restructuring, and explore how their career plans may be shaped by demand for a career that interests them.

Choosing a College or University

In this lesson, students will identify which factors are important to them in a potential postsecondary school, and investigate how a college or university stacks up to their priorities.

Entrepreneurial Skills

In this lesson, students will identify the skills and characteristics that make entrepreneurs successful, investigate paths to becoming an entrepreneur (e.g. starting your own business, buying a franchise, etc.). Students explore the benefits and challenges of becoming an entrepreneur and investigate ways to apply entrepreneurial skills within a career that interests them (develop entrepreneurial opportunities for themselves with any career).

Work/Life Balance

In this lesson, students will assess how their current work (school) demands affect family life, free time, etc., identify the work demands of a career of interest, and explore strategies for maintaining a healthy life-work balance now and in the future.

Career Backup Plans

In this lesson, students will understand the importance of career backup plans, and explore potential backup careers for themselves.

Career Path Choices

In this lesson, students will understand the career development is a process of constant change, that flexibility and adaptability can help them continually explore their career options, and the importance of re-evaluating their interests, skills, etc. in order to identify the need or desire for a career change.

Defining Success

In this lesson, students will explore what success means to them in various aspects of life, including their personal life, school, and career, and explore ways they can make a difference and achieve success in a career that interests them.

Job Interviews

In this lesson, students will explore ways to prepare for a job interview, describe their own abilities and qualifications in the context of an interview, investigate job interview questions in the context of a career that interests them, and explore appropriate post-interview behaviors and actions.