Exploring Careers in Family and Community Services Flashcards
What career do you see in your future? What education do you need for this career? How much money will you make? What skills will you need? In this lesson, you will explore the answers to these questions as well as additional information regarding family and community services careers. Let’s get started!
Career Clusters:
Groupings of occupations/career specialties used as an organizing tool for curriculum design and instruction. Occupations/career specialties are grouped into the Career Clusters based on the fact that they require a set of common knowledge and skills for career success. The Knowledge and Skills represented by Career Clusters prepare learners for a full range of occupations/career specialties, focusing on the holistic, polished blend of technical, academic and employability knowledge and skills. This approach enhances the more traditional approach to career and technical education in which instruction may focus on one or two occupations and emphasize only specific occupational skills.
Career Pathways:
Sub-groupings of occupations/career specialties used as an organizing tool for curriculum design and instruction. Occupations/career specialties are grouped into Pathways based on the fact that they require a set of common knowledge and skills for career success.
Certification:
Proof that you are an expert in a specific topic
Education:
The act or process of acquiring knowledge. A particular kind of instruction or training.
Interests:
What you like to do
Job Training:
Training involving both on-the-job experience and informal training with experienced workers.
Knowledge and Skills:
Industry-validated statements that describe what learners/employees need to know and be able to do for career success within a Cluster and/or Pathway.
Occupations/Career Specialties:
Particular careers or occupations based on advanced knowledge and skills specific to that career or occupation
Program of Study (curriculum framework):
A sequence of instruction (based on recommended standards and knowledge and skills) consisting of coursework, co-curricular activities, work-site learning, service learning, and other learning experiences. This sequence of instruction provides preparation for a career.
Personal Plan of Study:
An individual learner’s scope and sequence of coursework, co-curricular activities, work-site learning, service learning, and other learning experiences based upon his/her chosen career goals and aspirations. The Plan of Study should be revisited periodically (at least on an annual basis) to adjust as the interests and career aspirations of a learner change. This is a flexible resource designed to change in concert with the interests and needs of the learner.
Organization skills:
Strategies for using time, energy, resources, etc. in an effective way.
Skills:
The talent and expertise a person possesses to perform a certain job or task.
Tasks:
A piece of work assigned or done as part of one’s duties.
Work activities:
Activities associated with specific business requirements that users perform to accomplish their jobs.
