1. The Self-Advocacy Strategy
Setting Career Goals
The Self-Advocacy Strategy

2. Self-Advocacy: A Key to Your Success
Watch the Self-Advocacy Video labeled Introduction
Things you will need to do
Take notes
Participate
Take the quiz

3. SHARE What does SHARE stand for?
Watch the Self-Advocacy video labeled SHARE to find out!!
You will need to:
1. Take notes
2. Demonstrate the SHARE strategy!

4. Watch the Self-Advocacy video labeled Conference
It is time to take charge of your meetings!
Watch the Self-Advocacy video labeled Conference

5. Practice! Practice! Practice!
The Key to running your meeting with confidence!
Time to Practice!!
With the class read your opening speech and pass out your booklet!
Set the room to look like the conference room OR
ask Mrs. Lee to schedule the conference room for you!

6. PPT Meeting Take an Active role! PPT means Planning and Placement Team
The meeting is about you and for you!
In the meeting the team makes a plan for the year.
This plan is to help you in school and to get ready for the time you are ready to leave high school.
You are a member of the team.
Take an Active role!

7. Success is about preparing for the future
Preparation!
Success is about preparing for the future
You will need to:
Develop your opening speech
Design and produce a booklet that describes YOU. This booklet will be given to each member of the PPT or PCP team.
PCP is Person Center Planning: It is about YOU and designing a plan for your future

8. Person Centered Planning
PCP is Person Center Planning: It is about YOU and designing a plan for your future
Participate in a PCP practice session!
Planning comes first! Answer these questions: You can use your Bridges book to help you
What activities do you like? __________________________________________
Would you like to work inside or outside? _______________________________
What will you do when you graduate from school? _______________________
Who will you need to help you get there? Use your Circle of Friends to help you decide.
__________________________________________________________________

9. Game Time Play the Career Game Play a game with the career cards!
Fill out the sheets to add to your Portfolio

10. Setting Career Goals: The Text
When you are reading:
Find the main points
Use the sticky note strategy to help you
I will ask you to tell me the main points
Read Chapter 1: Why Set Career Goals?
Did you know that you already have a job? Well you do!!! You are a STUDENT Let’s learn about setting career goals.
Great Job!! Let’s move on

11. General Study Skills It is time to look at our job as a student
You will have a partner to work with
Read the handout: Part One General Study Skills
Do the Brainstorm activity at the bottom of the page.
Additional Activity: Prepare a handout of the materials

12. Chapter One: Setting Goals for Yourself
Read Basketball Dreams as a group
We will need to choose :
1 person to read
1 person to record the main points and evidence after the reading
Highlighting in 2 colors (main point and evidence)
Everyone to join the discussion

13. Why is it important to set clear goals for yourself?
What Do You Think?
Why is it important to set clear goals for yourself?

14. What Do You Think? Why is it hard to stick with a goal?
Why is it easy to give up?

15. Support Circle
A support circle includes all the people that can help you be successful with your goals.
Everyone has people who will help
Who are YOUR people
Complete the STAR chart!
(go to the next slide to see what the STAR chart is)

16. Support Circle Friends, Family The people closest to you (Family)
People you know
Groups and Clubs can be in any category
Complete these circles with STAR people

17. Lesson 1: Creating Goals for Yourself
Read Take a Look
Use Foldables for defining:
Daily Goals
Short-term Goals
Long-term Goals
We will complete page 11 together!!

18. Take the Inventory!! Learning Styles Inventory How do you learn best?
Career Interest Inventory
What are you interested in doing for a career?

19. Knowing how you learn will help you do a better job as a student
Learning Styles
Knowing how you learn will help you do a better job as a student
These strategies help me be successful!!

20. Career Interests
Read Chapter 2 Opportunities at Work from the textbook Setting Career Goals
When you are reading:
Find the main points
Use the sticky note strategy to help you
I will ask you to tell me the main points

21. Discovering Skills
Read Chapter 3 Discovering Skills from the textbook Setting Career Goals
Complete Interest and Skills Inventories in the Build a Bridge Booklet

22. Learning About Jobs
Read Chapter 4 Learning About Jobs from the textbook Setting Career Goals
Choose a career to research
Complete the career research worksheet

23. Careers What did you find out about the career you chose?
Do you need to readjust your goals?
Do you need to add in new support people into your circle?
These are questions you need to ask yourself.
We will be there to help!!

24. Timing and Skills Do one (1) of the pre-vocational timing kits
Name of the timing kit:
_______________________________________
My score
1st trial 2nd trial 3rd trial
______ ______ _______
Date: ________________

25. Portfolio Your Portfolio will be divided into sections: Assessments
Tell a story about YOU by developing a Career Portfolio
Your Portfolio will be divided into sections:
Assessments
Interests/Skills
Sample Work
Career Exploration
Add the information to your portfolio as you collect it

26. Career Exploration Choose a career to research The career is:
_______________________________________
Directions:
1.Watch the film
2. Complete the career research worksheet