1. Describe positive characteristics about self as seen by self and others.
2. Identify how behaviors affect school and family situations.
3. Describe how behavior influences the feelings and actions of others.
4. Demonstrate a positive attitude about self.
5. Identify personal interests, abilities, strengths and weaknesses.
6. Describe ways to meet personal needs through work.

1. Identify personal feelings
2. Identify ways to express feelings.
3. Describe causes of stress.
4. Identify and select appropriate behaviors to deal with specific emotional
   situations.
5. Demonstrate healthy ways of dealing with conflicts, stress, and emotions in
   self and others.
6. Demonstrate knowledge of good health habits.

1. Describe how academic skills can be used in the home, workplace, and
   community.
2. Identify personal strengths and weaknesses in subject areas.
3. Identify academic skills needed in several occupational groups.
4. Describe relationships among abilities, effort, and achievement.
5. Implement a plan of action for improving academic skills.
6. Describe school tasks that are similar to skills essential for job success.
7. Describe how the amount of education needed for different occupational
   levels varies.

1. Identify different types of work, both paid and unpaid.
2. Describe the importance of preparing for one’s career.
3. Demonstrate effective study and information-seeking habits.
4. Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of practice, effort, and
   learning.
5. Describe how current learning relates to work.
6. Describe how one’s role as a student is like that of an adult worker.

1. Describe the importance of personal qualities (e.g., dependability,
   promptness, getting along with others) to getting and keeping jobs.
2. Demonstrate positive ways of performing working activities.
3. Describe the importance of cooperation among workers to accomplish a
   task.
4. Demonstrate the ability to work with people who are different from oneself
   (e.g., race, age, gender, people with disabilities).

1. Describe how work can satisfy personal needs.
2. Describe the products and services of local employers.
3. Describe ways in which work can help overcome social and economic
   problems.

1. Describe how choices are made.
2. Describe what can be learned from making mistakes.
3. Identify and assess problems that interfere with attaining goals.
4. Identify strategies used in solving problems.
5.  Identify alternatives in decision making situations.
6. Describe how personal beliefs and attitudes effect decision-making.
7. Describe how decisions affect self and others.

1. Describe the various roles an individual may have (e.g., friend, students,
   worker, family member). 
2. Describe work-related activities in the home, community, and school.
3. Describe how family members depend on one another, work together, and
   share responsibilities.
4. Describe how work roles complement family roles.

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1. Describe personal likes and dislikes.
2. Describe individual skills required to fulfill different life roles.
3. Describe how one’s behavior influences the feelings and actions of others.
4. Identify environmental influences on attitudes, behaviors, and aptitudes.

1. Demonstrate respect for the feelings and beliefs of others.
2. Demonstrate an appreciation for the similarities and differences among
   people.
3. Demonstrate tolerance and flexibility in interpersonal and group situations.
4. Demonstrate effective skills in responding to criticism.
5. Demonstrate effective group membership skills.
6. Demonstrate effective social skills.
7. Demonstrate understanding of different cultures, lifestyles, attitudes, and
   abilities.

1. Identify feelings associated with significant experiences.
2. Identify internal and external sources of stress.
3. Demonstrate ways of responding to others when under stress.
4. Describe changes that occur in the physical, psychological, social and
   emotional development of an individual.
5. Describe physiological and psychological factors as they relate to career
   development.
6. Describe the importance of career, family, and leisure activities to mental,
   emotional, physical, and economic well-being.

1. Describe the importance of academic and occupational skills in the work
   world.
2. Identify how the skills taught in school subjects, academic and contextual,
   are used in various occupations.>
3. Identify skills that are transferable from one occupation to another.

4. Identify sources of employment in the community.

1. Demonstrate personal qualities (e.g., dependability, punctuality, getting
   along with others) that are needed to get and keep jobs.
2. Describe terms and concepts used in describing employment opportunities
   and conditions.
3. Demonstrate skills to complete a job application.
4. Demonstrate skills and attitudes essential for a job interview.

1. Describe personal beliefs and attitudes.
2. Describe how career development is a continuous process with a series of
   choices.
3. Identify possible outcomes of decisions.
4. Describe school courses related to personal, educational, and occupational
   interests.
5. Describe how the expectations of others affect career planning.
6. Identify ways in which decisions about education and work relate to other
   major life decisions.
7. Identify advantages and disadvantages of various secondary and
   postsecondary programs for the attainment of career goals.
8. Identify the requirements for secondary and postsecondary programs.

1. Identify how different work and family patterns require varying kinds and
   amounts of energy, participation, motivation, and talent.
2. Identify how work roles at home satisfy needs of the family.
3. Identify personal goals that may be satisfied through a combination of work, community, social, and family, roles.
4. Identify personal leisure choices in relation to lifestyle and the attainment of
   future goals.
5. Describe advantages and disadvantages of various life role options.
6. Describe the interrelationships among family, work, and leisure decisions.

1. Demonstrate knowledge of exploratory processes and programs.
2. Identify school courses that meet tentative career goals.
3. Demonstrate knowledge of academic and school-to-work transition
   opportunities offered at the high school level.
4. Describe skills needed in a variety of occupations, including self-employment.
5. Identify strategies for managing personal resources (e.g., talents, time, and
   money) to achieve tentative career goals.
6. Develop an individual career plan, updating information from the
   elementary-level plan and including tentative decisions to be implemented
   in high school.

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1. Identify and appreciate personal interests, abilities, and skills.
2. Demonstrate the ability to use peer feedback.
3. Demonstrate an understanding of how individual characteristic’s related to
   achieving personal, social, educational, and career goals.
4. Demonstrate an understanding of environmental influences on one’s
   behaviors.
5. Demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between personal
   behavior and self-concept.

1. Demonstrate effective interpersonal skills.
2. Demonstrate interpersonal skills required for working with and for others.
3. Describe appropriate employer and employee interactions in various
   situations.
4. Demonstrate how to express feelings, reactions, and ideas in an appropriate manner.

1. Describe how developmental changes affect physical and mental health.
2. Describe the effect of emotional and physical health on career decisions.
3. Describe healthy ways of dealing with stress.
4. Demonstrate behaviors that maintain physical and mental health.

1. Demonstrate how to apply academic and occupational skills to achieve
   personal goals.
2. Describe the relationship of academic and occupational skills to personal
   interests.
3. Describe how skills developed in academic and occupational programs
   relate to career goals.
4. Describe how education relates to the selection of college majors, further
   training, and/or entry into the job market.
5. Demonstrate transferable skills that can apply to a variety of occupations
   and changing occupational requirements.
6. Describe how learning skills are required in the work place.

1.  Identify the positive contributions workers make to society.
2. Demonstrate knowledge of the social significance of various occupations.
3. Demonstrate a positive attitude toward work.
4. Demonstrate learning habits and skills that can be used in various
   educational situations.
5. Demonstrate positive work attitudes and behaviors.

1. Demonstrate skills to locate, interpret, and use information about job
   openings and opportunities.
2. Demonstrate academic or occupational skills required for full or part-time jobs.
3. Demonstrate skills and behaviors necessary for a successful job interview.
4. Demonstrate skills in preparing a resume and completing job applications.
5. Identify specific job openings.
6. Demonstrate employability skills necessary to obtain and maintain jobs.
7. Demonstrate skills to assess occupational opportunities (e.g. working
   conditions, benefits, and for change).
8. Describe placement services available to make the transition from high
   school to civilian employment, the armed services, or postsecondary
   education/training.
9. Demonstrate an understanding that job opportunities often require
   relocation.

1. Demonstrate responsibility for making tentative educational and
   occupational choices.
2. Identify alternatives in given decision making situations.
3. Describe skills/aptitudes needed to quality for desired postsecondary
   education/training.
4. Identify appropriate choices during high school that will lead to marketable skills for entry-level employment or advanced training.
5. Identify and complete required steps toward transition from high school to entry into postsecondary education/training programs or work.
6. Identify steps to apply for and secure financial assistance for postsecondary education and training.

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