Office of Career and Technical Education

How Choosing a Nontraditional Career Can Nontraditional Curriculum, Training Materials, and Videos

Materials are available for checkout from:
  Career and Technical Education Resource Center
  800 Governors Drive
  Pierre, SD 57501 
  Phone: 605-773-7030 or 605-773-7006
  E-mail: steven.rounds@state.sd.us

 

"Taking the Road Less Traveled" Educator's tool kit and supplement CD by MAVCC (Multi-state Academic and Vocational Curriculum Consortium) and NAPE (National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity)?

These valuable resources can be used to increase nontraditional participation and completion in Career and Technical Education Programs such as Auto Body, Automotive Technology, Carpentry, Child Care, Computer-Aided Drafting, Electronics, Health Occupations, Machine Tool Technology, Computer Cabling (C-Tech), Computer Maintenance & Repair (ExplorNet), Computer Networking (Cisco), and Welding.

Changing Channels

A series of videos including Introduction to High Tech Careers for Women, Laser Technology, Drafting and Computers, Electronics and Robotics Manufacturing, Aviation and Avionics.

Dreams of Flying

A young Hispanic woman struggles to overcome traditional family and social pressures as she attempts to fulfill her desire to accept a scholarship, attend college, and work toward a career in industrial technology. The importance of family and peer acceptance of career choices is a central theme.

*Futures: Preparing Young Women for High Skill, High Wage Careers Tool Kit

Futures is a comprehensive training curriculum developed by the Institute for Women in Trades, Technology & Science. The Tool Kit uses a comprehensive, train-the-trainer approach to train teachers, counselors, and other school personnel to recruit and retain young women in nontraditional, technology-based careers.

GESA

Generating Expectations for Student Achievement (GESA) training, a research-based staff development program. GESA examines areas of disparity in the classroom and then encourages teachers to use research-based, proactive instructional strategies and resources to eliminate the disparities and support high expectations. The necessity of high expectations for all students has been identified repeatedly as an essential factor for educational success at all levels. Teachers will learn about the effects of gender, race, ethnic, and other differences in their perceived expectations of students. Teachers learn to observe and coach each other to eliminate biased classroom behaviors and reduce differential treatment of students. They also learn to train peers to incorporate GESA principles in their classrooms.

Infusing Gender Equity into the Core Curriculum Content Standards

This series includes sample lesson plans and activities for eight core curriculum areas including Workplace Readiness, Social Studies, Science, Mathematics, Language Arts, World Languages, Health and Physical Education, and Visual and Performing Arts. Educators will find them useful in implementing district multi-year equity plans, accomplishing curriculum standard indicators, and improving achievement of all students. The lessons are appropriate for grades 4 - 12. The eight manuals present a systematic plan for replacing sex bias and stereotyping with the healthy and productive environment of the equitable classroom and school. There are many hands-on activities in this highly recommended series.

Math at Work

Thirteen women who work in nontraditional careers, ranging from a helicopter pilot, an architect, a police officer, and a firefighter, to machinists and welders, show how they use mathematics as part of their work. 15 minutes

Mythbusters I, II, III

"Mythbusters" is a series of 3 videos which encourage girls and women to consider nontraditional careers. The videos and accompanying activities can add fun and excitement to learning about careers. They can be used as introductions to career units, as reinforcement, or for highlighting of sexual harassment policies. Mythbusters I is a 25-minutes video with accompanying manual. It challenges the viewer to "bust the myths" both men and women hold about women entering nontraditional work. The video's audience is middle school and high school students and adults. Mythbusters II is a 15-minute video with a manual of activities which employs cooperative learning strategies and helps infuse equity concepts into math, science, health, communication, history, and geography classes. It is designed to broaden the career and educational aspirations of students in the upper elementary grades. It is also suitable for other students, adults, and parents. The video is an exciting, upbeat presentation of nontraditional careers for males and females. Mythbusters III consists of a 15-minutes video and manual. It addresses many of the myths which formulate the thinking of young children about gender equity. Activities are geared to elementary students allowing them to dispel the myths about career choice.

MECCA

MECCA (Making Equity Count for Classroom Achievement), focuses on fairness, bias and stereotyping, student/teacher interaction, communication, gender and achievement, cultural diversity, and sexual harassment.

Nontraditional Occupations for Women

This video presents information on employment for women in nontraditional occupations. Nontraditional careers are featured, as well as comments from women at to the benefits, barriers, and experiences encountered. 15 minutes.

On the Rights Track: An Empowerment and Workplace Rights Curriculum

This curriculum incorporates information about workplace rights into a basic life skills curriculum. The role-plays and exercises reinforce both the life skills and the workplace rights information being taught. The curriculum is broken into four two-hour workshops. Each provides basic information about a particular workplace right; basic information about a particular life skill; and a series of exercises using workplace examples to illustrate the issue and too practice the skills being taught.

Shifting Gears

This instructional packet is intended to comprise a two-week session using video presentations, classroom activities, and discussion to promote occupational awareness and especially the choice of nontraditional careers for both genders. Career choices for disadvantaged and disabled persons are also included. Run time per tape is 10 minutes.

Tradeswomen of Tomorrow: An Educator’s Guide to Nontraditional Career Awareness for Girls

This curriculum provides information to educators on why and how to encourage girls to enter nontraditional careers and how to find nontraditional role models and use them effectively. It contains four sections: Facts and Statistics, Career Information for Counselors, Activities, and Resources.

Women in Construction

This 15-minute video features five women who work in construction: a carpenter, an architect, a sheetmetal-worker, and plumbing and electrical apprentices.

Women in Engineering

This 15-minute video includes thirteen engineers who work on a variety of projects ranging from rollercoasters to wastewater-treatment plants, from commercial packaged baked goods to human resources, from power utilities to telecommunications, from large-scale tractors to small-scale theme-park rides.

Women in Machining

Seven machinists who work in a variety of jobs discuss their work. 15 minutes

Women in Nontraditional Careers: An Introduction

From welders to firefighters, from construction workers to machinists, from a helicopter pilot to a dump-truck driver, from police officers to dentists, from athletic coaches to carpenters, from a service mechanic to a mason, forty-six women from a wide variety of backgrounds are shown at work. 15 minutes

Women in Policing

Six police officers with different specialties encourage girls and women to consider a career in policing. 15 minutes

Women in Welding

This 15-minute video features several women who work in a variety of welding occupations.