1. Career Essentials as a Delivery method for CFM
LISA ROMEISER
Cheryl Winstel

2. Career and Financial Management
Required component in all approved CTE programs of study
May be delivered as a stand alone course or embedded in CTE programs of study
One-half (.5) unit of CTE stand alone course does not count as one of the three required CTE units for an approved CTE program of study
CFM must be delivered by a certified CTE teacher

3. CFM Curriculum Framework
Career Management modules 1-8
Financial Management modules 1-8
CTE programs of study do not need to deliver all of the CFM modules to meet the one-half unit requirement

4. Career Management Modules
Career Development
Options Beyond High School
The Job Search Process
Workplace Regulations
Career Readiness Skills
Lifelong Learning
Leadership and Ethics
Business Communications & Technological Innovations

5. Financial Management Modules
Budgeting
Money Management
Credit & Loans
Interest
Investing
Consumer Options and Protections
Insurance
Taxes

6. SkillsUSA Career Essentials
Career Readiness Curriculum can be used to meet the CFM standards
Curriculum is customizable to all CTE content areas
Prepares students to excel in the workplace and as leaders in their communities
Aligns with the SkillsUSA framework where students develop personal, workplace and technical skills

8. SkillsUSA Framework Personal Skills
Integrity
Work Ethic
Professionalism
Responsibility
Adaptability/Flexibility
Self-Motivated
Essential values, personality traits and personal characteristics for success in life

9. SkillsUSA Framework Workplace Skills
Communication
Decision Making
Teamwork
Multi-Cultural Sensitivity and Awareness
Planning, Organizing and Management
Leadership
Essential attitudes and abilities for success in the workplace

10. SkillsUSA Framework Technical Skills Grounded in Academics
Computer and Technology Literacy
Job Specific Skills
Safety and Health
Service Orientation
Professional Development
Essential knowledge and competencies for success on the job

11. Career Readiness Curriculum National Connections
National Association of State Directors of CTE Consortium Career Clusters Framework
Partnership for 21st Century Skills
Employability Skills Framework, US DOE
Industry Competency Models, Employment and Training Administration, US DOL

12. FOUNDATIONS

13. Career Essential Foundations Curriculum
The all inclusive curriculum includes 29 user friendly lesson plans that cover all 17 Essential Elements and is based on Common Core State Standards along with seven other national employability initiatives.
It is a direct crosswalk with the CFM State Frameworks.
Reassure teachers that it is not more work!
A complete resource that can be used to fulfill the CFM credit.
Easy to use format for all CTE teachers to integrate into the classroom. Flows into any CTE course easily!
The Curriculum is a free, member benefit as part of SkillsUSA professional membership dues (digital download) .
Career Essential Foundations Curriculum
CFM is a framework not a curriculum. It was directed to a CFM course
and hard to design each module into a “welding” lesson. Teachers
plates are full and won’t do or not a good job at it. They have textbooks that are
course specific that might have some finance management in it.
SkillsUSA foundations is a complete curriculum that you can hand to a welder, culinary or any of your teachers and
they can easily integrate it into their curriculum.

14. Career Essential Foundations Advantages
100% customizable
Flexible lessons – can be used in totality or in parts
Enhances current classroom lessons
Uses strategies from practical classroom experience
Incorporates other SkillsUSA resources
The beauty of the Career Essential Foundations is its ability to be taught in a scope and sequence but it is also totally customizable.
The greatest benefit for most teachers will be to chunk the lessons and teach one or two of the objectives to reinforce current lesson plans or create an awareness of framework skills for all students.

15. Career Essential Foundations – Lesson Structure
Resources/Materials
Goals – related to Framework and
Standards
Common Core Standard Link
Students will understand that…
Essential Questions
Students will know…
Students will be able to…
SkillsUSA has many resources with wonderful strategies to engage students.
Quintessential group polled 1000 businesses and industries as to what they wanted students
to know and what they wanted them to be able to do….

16. Career Essential Foundations– Lesson Structure
Assessment Evidence-Performance and other tasks
Key Terms
Differentiation

17. Career Essentials Foundation– Lesson Structure
Lesson plan – in timed segments
Bell Ringer
Interest Approach
Objectives
Understandings
Review/ Closure
End of the Year Evidence – Portfolio
Resources
Hand Outs
All videos, hand-outs, readings, articles are in the lesson plan or have a link

18. Career Essentials Foundation – Lesson Structure
Multi-Use!
Extended Learning Applications
Classroom
SkillsUSA
Workplace
References
Each lesson comes with a Power Point Presentation
The power point has in bedded links to videos, articles and more that can be customized.

19. Career Essential Foundations– Added Value Components
Engages all types of learners
Incorporates sound research-based education practices
Reinforces employability vocabulary
Assesses student learning
Integrates academic and employability standards
Correlates to employer demand
Creates career and life ready students
Offers practical application of leadership and employability skills
Develops the whole student
It integrates academic and employability standards in a turn key format.

20. Contact Information
Cheryl Winstel
Lisa Romeiser

21. Questions