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.
Budgeting: Learning to Manage Money to Achieve Your Goals
The purpose of this lesson is for students to learn the importance of budgeting from a monthly income and analyzing common monthly expenses in order to select a career that will allow them a reasonable standard of living. This lesson aims to motivate students to further their education and set career and financial goals.
GED Content Areas
Number and Ratios
Back It Up- Recognizing How Authors Support Their Argument
The ability to recognize the effects of point of view and to locate evidence in written materials will help students to form decisions based upon facts and careful inferences rather than unsubstantiated opinions. Reading objectively will ultimately affect the strength of their own speaking and writing abilities.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
Career Snapshots Closing Day 1
To introduce students to very basic research so that they can begin career exploration for themselves
GED Content Areas
- Writing
Career Snapshots Closing Project Day 2
To expose students to very basic public speaking
GED Content Areas
- Speaking and Listening
Community Signage
Students will learn to recognize words and symbols so that they can navigate in the community and at the workplace. Discuss where, when and why these words and symbols are important to know.
GED Content Areas
- Reading Foundational Skills
Compare/Contrast Careers
To introduce students to strategies for comparing/contrasting similar texts
GED Content Areas
- Reading
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
Health Science Careers in Diagnostic Services: Active Listening and Checking for Understanding
Students will practice active listening and checking for understanding skills in order to better communicate with the people they might interact with in health care settings.
GED Content Areas
- Writing
- Speaking and Listening
Health Science Careers in Diagnostic Services: Diagnostic Questioning OLD CARTS AND SOAP Notes
Employees in the health care pathways must demonstrate effective communication and questioning skills related to medical diagnoses.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Writing
Health Science Careers in Diagnostic Services: Observing for Detecting and Diagnosing "What are Signs and Symptoms and Why Do They Matter?"
This topic helps students understand the difference between signs and symptoms so that they will be able to record information from patient interviews for proper medical diagnoses.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
Health Science Careers in Diagnostic Services: People Skills in the Healthcare Setting
Employees in the health care pathways must demonstrate effective communication and people skills.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Speaking and Listening
Health Science Careers in Diagnostic Services: Vocabulary for Interpreting Charts and Print Outs
Students must develop the diagnostic skill of reading healthcare print outs and charts to work in health care fields.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Language
Health Science Careers in Diagnostic Services: What Are the Careers and What Do The Careers Involve?
Students will explore the types of jobs available in the diagnostic services pathway of a health science career cluster in order to encourage students to pursue one of these careers.
GED Content Areas
- Writing
- Speaking and Listening
Health Science Careers in Therapeutic Services: The Ability to Work as a Team (Introduction to Teams Part 1)
Why is this topic important to the learner?
To become successful health care workers, students must understand the importance of working as a team in therapeutic healthcare services.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Writing
Health Science Careers in Therapeutic Services: The Ability to Work as a Team (Introduction to Teams Part 2)
Why is this topic important to the learner?
This topic is important in that effective communication, conflict resolution, and teamwork are necessary skills to succeed in therapeutic healthcare services.
GED Content Areas
- Writing
- Speaking and Listening
Health Science Careers in Therapeutic Services: The Desire to Help Patients Heal
It is important for students to understand the importance of the therapeutic skill of developing the desire to help people heal as they consider careers in health care.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
Health Science Careers in Therapeutic Services: What Are The Careers and What Do They Involve?
Why is this topic important to the learner?
Since the health care sector is growing and jobs are becoming available, students should explore the types of jobs available in the therapeutic services pathway of health science careers.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Writing
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
Survey of Support Services and Informatics
Why is this topic important to the learner?
Students should explore all health care pathways before determining a career path. This lesson exposes them to careers in support services and health informatics.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
Text Structure Know-How
To introduce students to strategies for comparing/contrasting similar texts
GED Content Areas
- Reading
Using Job Skills to Choose a Career
In the previous class, students began creating a profile on Focus/Career using the resume-building aspect of the tool. Today, they will view available jobs in their area that matches their skill level. Through examining job requirements and the characteristics of successful applicants, students will be able to evaluate data and create their own summary of it to better understand their chances at obtaining one of the jobs matched to their profiles.
GED Content Areas
- Reading
- Writing