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Course, Subject

Home & Careers, Career Development and Occupational Studies

Assessment

• Teacher evaluates student and team reflections.
• Teacher/student-created rubric is used in evaluations.

Authors

Christie DeCesare, Melissa Dixon, Patricia Molloy, and Carol Varsalona.

Duration

3–4 weeks

Essential Questions

 

• Who am I as a citizen?
• How do I find out what I want to know?
• How do I develop the skills and abilities that I need to be successful in a career?

Description

Objectives:

• Students develop self-management skills for researching a topic.
• Students develop critical thinking skills.
• Students develop effective interpersonal skills.

Activity:

• Students discuss “What does a good researcher do?” “What career opportunities are available for researchers?” “What is culture?”
• Students form research teams based upon their cultural background or interest.
• Teacher and students identify what they want to know about culture and create a rubric for the finished product.
• Library media specialist provides information on obtaining information from the library, online, and from community resources. Information is also provided on primary and secondary sources.
• Students gather information from different sources.
• Students organize and manage their information for presentation.
• Students present information in both oral and written forms.
• Students create a “Cultural News and Views” newsletter for school wide distribution.
• Students reflect on the teamwork process for task completion.

Materials / Resources

 

• Internet access
• Word processing and desktop publishing software
• Library resources
• Computer and printer
• Human/Community resources

Comments / Modifications

This inclusive project accommodates various learning styles within a group.

Source

Christie DeCesare, Melissa Dixon, Patricia Molloy, and Carol Varsalona. “Making Cultural Connections Through Research.” In Career Development and Occupational Studies (CDOS) Resource Guide with Core Curriculum. New York State Department of Education, 82.

Related Academic Standards

New York State

CDOS.C.3a.BS.1.A.SW 

1. Demonstrate competency in reading through strategies to:
1. Organize new information to support a decision in the workplace
2. Make generalizations and identify underlying concepts independently
3. Apply information from one context to many
4. Extract and synthesize data from many sources
5. Use insight to make generalizations and draw conclusions
6. Assess data and information for significance
7. Recognize and evaluate cultural values in text
8. Determine the meaning of unknown and technical vocabulary
9. Judge the accuracy of reports, proposals, or ideas of others
2. Demonstrate competency in writing through strategies to:
1. Use effective and appropriate writing styles
2. Present information selectively and make independent decisions
3. Write in unique and purposeful ways
4. Display high levels of writing skills in areas of specialized knowledge
5. Show originality in writing
6. Manipulate vocabulary for pleasing or striking effects
7. Use appropriate perspective based on the context
8. Use creative and insightful strategies
9. Compose and create documents (manuscripts, flowcharts, graphs, reports, etc.)
10. Develop note-taking skills
3. Demonstrate competency in listening and speaking through strategies to:
1. Adjust and expand ideas and opinions by listening to others
2. Seek out, incorporate, and synthesize new information
3. Make judgments about the most effective way to present information
4. Present information clearly and logically to a variety of audiences
5. Take initiative in structuring group discussions
6. Influence group members through effective expression of ideas
7. Be open to a wide range of assessments
8. Develop personal standards and objective criteria to assess a wide variety of oral presentations
9. Encourage and evaluate diverse and complex oral presentations
4. Demonstrate competency in mathematical operations through strategies to:
1. Make generalizations that will apply to all similar data
2. Express mathematical concepts orally and in writing
3. Use logic to create new situations and predict outcomes using similar relationships
4. Determine the appropriate unit of measure
5. Develop procedures for using measurements in job situations and personal use
6. Conduct an experiment to simulate an event over a number of trials
7. Evaluate predictions based on outcomes of a probability model
8. Use statistics to make decisions and inferences based on data
9. Use charts, graphs, and tables to convey quantitative data

CDOS.C.3b.BI.6.A.SW 

1. Understand and demonstrate skills for success in a multinational business world:
   1. Personal qualities related to employability
   2. Team member skills needed to accomplish a task
   3. Interpersonal skills for working with and for others
      1. Give/receive constructive criticism
      2. Effective time management
2. Understand leadership abilities and skills:
   1. Styles
   2. Traits of leaders (e.g., ability to motivate, delegate)
   3. Skills (e.g., plan, organize)
3. Function effectively as members of a work group/team by:
   1. Demonstrating sensitivity (e.g., cultural diversity)
   2. Applying principles of group dynamics and participation in team activities
   3. Communicating
      1. Listening skills
      2. Appropriate response
      3. Feedback
   4. Understanding the chain of command/purpose of authority
   5. Understanding corporate culture

CDOS.C.3b.HS.7.A.SW 

1. Develop team-building skills and behaviors within the health care setting(s).
2. Understand functions and roles within a health care team(s).
3. Develop positive communication skills:
1. Cooperation
2. Listening
3. Diversity/cultural issues
4. Small group interactions
5. Classroom discussions
6. Community relations
4. Understand leadership:
1. Characteristics
2. Styles
3. Problem-solving methods
4. Goal setting
5. Decision-making methods
5. Develop conflict resolution skills.
6. Understand professionalism in the health care system:
1. Definition
2. organizations (professional, student)

CDOS.C.3b.AH.3.A.SW 

1. Develop and practice response:
1. Definition: an audience’s cognitive, physical, and/or emotional experience with art
2. Factors that affect response
1. Life experiences
2. Cultural/historical context
3. Education
4. Mental/physical abilities
5. Belief system/philosophy
2. Understand and develop critical analysis/valuing:
1. Definition: the evaluation of a response is based upon the fundamental principles and social context of each discipline
2. Areas for analysis
1. Structure
2. Technique
3. Skill level
4. Composition