Career Clusters

Career Clusters 2017-01-19T19:50:18-05:00

There are 16 career clusters leading to various career pathways. Instructors can incorporate these clusters into curriculum design and instruction. Adult education services will include workforce preparation activities and training for specific occupations; this will allow students to achieve their educational and career goals. For a listing and description of these career clusters, please click on the link below.

Career Cluster Pathways

Don’t Let Cost Be Your Goal Buster: Ways to Pay for Higher Education

Students will learn about various ways to pay for higher education, which may encourage them to pursue a certificate or degree that will help them with a career. Specifically, students will learn about the Work Ready Kentucky Scholarship and other grants, scholarships, and loans. Students will be encouraged not to charge tuition on credit cards and to avoid high interest loans if at all possible.

 

GED Content Areas

  • Reading

GED Success Stories and Steps to Higher Education

Students will determine the key steps to beginning higher education courses. This lesson seeks to encourage students to earn their GEDs and pursue higher education degrees, certificates, or training.

GED Content Areas

  • Writing

Gifted: Finding Your Multiple Intelligences

Students will be able to read biographies closely to determine which multiple intelligence(s) are emphasized in order to understand their own intelligences and choose related careers. This lesson is designed to encourage students that they are intelligent and that they have gifts that can contribute to society.

GED Content Areas

  • Reading

Listening and Speaking Skills: The Wisdom of a Third Grade Dropout

Students will practice active listening skills and participate in small group and whole class discussion of a speech and the transcript of that speech. These listening and speaking skills are necessary for success in most jobs.

 

 

 

GED Content Areas

  • Speaking and Listening

Part 1 of Essay on a Goal Achiever

Students will find relevant articles about a person who achieved a great goal. Students will analyze the articles for credibility and usefulness and use those articles to answer questions about the person. The students will write an informative essay on the person in a subsequent lesson. This lesson is important in that it will hopefully inspire students to set and achieve their own goals. This lesson will help students build their writing skills.

 

GED Content Areas

  • Writing

Part 2 of Essay on a Goal Achiever: Writing the First Draft

Students will write an informative essay with sufficient textual evidence.

 

GED Content Areas

  • Writing

The Vocabulary of Saving and Investing Money

Students will use context clues to determine the meanings of new words in articles about personal finance. Students will need to use this skill in future class, on exams, and in the workplace. Students will learn about the importance of saving and some basic ways to invest their money.

GED Content Areas

  • Language

Your Mission Statement

The purpose of this lesson is to teach students how to write/analyze a mission statement so that they have direction in goal-setting.

GED Content Areas

  • Reading
  • Writing