CAREER CHOICES helps students answer the questions: Who am I?, What do I want?, How do I get it?. This addition to the popular and critically acclaimed Choices series is every bit as innovative, entertaining and important as its predecessors. Using the same self-discovery approach that makes the other books so valuable and popular, CAREER CHOICES presents not only the traditional decision making and career/life planning skills, but also the important concepts of anxiety tolerance, recognizing and using mentors, dealing with rejection and over-coming irrational fears in a way teens and young adults can easily grasp. As readers uncover their unique abilities and ambitions, they develop the skills and attitudes needed to build successful careers and lives in rapidly changing times. "User friendly" for student and instructor alike, CAREER CHOICES helps teens and young adults learn more about the most important subject in their world: Themselves! Teachers who've begun to use the curriculum are excited by the results. There seems to be a kind of synergy at work. Once students realize how education will benefit them in the future—"what's in it for me"—they apply themselves to all their studies. Not surprisingly, their performance improves, and this encourages them to work even more diligently. Success feeds enthusiasm, which inspires still more success and so on!
CAREER CHOICES TEXTBOOK
This textbook consists of 288 81/2" x 11" beautifully illustrated pages printed on a special heavy duty soft colored stock. The book is Smythe Sewn before binding to insure their durability.
STUDENT WORKBOOK
The student workbook includes all exercises from the textbook and dramatically reduces the cost per student by allowing the texts to be used non-consumably.
INSTRUCTOR'S GUIDE
A single volume provides comprehensive guidance for teachers and counselors alike. You'll find exercise by exercise organization plans, discussion outlines, resource materials, classroom extension ideas, vocabulary lists, recommended reading lists and much more.
CAREER CHOICES AND CHANGES
This new volume was adapted from CAREER CHOICES to be used with a more mature audience: college students, career changers, reentry workers or anyone still wrestling with the important questions of identity, life satisfaction and future planning. It covers all the topics in CAREER CHOICES but is edited to include more age-appropriate stories and examples. An additional comprehensive section on change helps readers decide not only what to change, but how and when to most strategically make their move. The teacher’s guide from CAREER CHOICES may be used with the program.
LIFESTYLE MATH
Our much heralded CAREER CHOICES package now includes a math component. Based on real-life situations, LIFESTYLE MATH is sure to make formerly confused or unenthused students stop scratching their heads and start using their minds. Like the rest of the curriculum, this math program works because it captures students’ interest and clearly demonstrates how and why math proficiency will influence their future success or happiness. Once young people understand the relevance of math, their attitudes quickly improve.. and so do their grades! With this addition, the CAREER CHOICES curriculum becomes an even more outstanding, even more unique example of how core academic subjects can work together to create a new and exciting synergy in education.
POSSIBILITIES
This supplementary reader of literary classics–short stories, essays, speeches, poems and plays–with themes that compliment the course is ideal for the infusion of the CAREER CHOICES Curriculum into English/Language Arts. Works by such renowned writers as James Thurber, Maya Angelou, Langston Hughes, Robert Fulghum, Emily Dickinson, O’Henry, Longfellow, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning are included. Discussion questions, activities, composition assignments, grammar and vocabulary lessons support this literature-based approach to English-language arts while building on the highly motivational theme of CAREER CHOICES.
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