6Th Grade Career Awareness B

Yeager Middle School 6th Grade Career Awareness Course Syllabus Mrs. Davina Williams, Teacher (770) 651-5682 [email protected]

Course Name: Career Awareness

Course Description: The goal of this course is to promote essential knowledge and skills students need to develop a positive self-concept. This course will provide students with opportunities to identify interests, abilities, aptitudes, values, and personality traits as they relate to career planning, to develop a keen understanding of the value and benefit of work, and to differentiate between jobs and careers. In this course, middle school students will experience a variety of activities which promote self-awareness, self-management skills, leadership, teamwork, career exploration, and educational planning related to students’ future educational and career plans.

Course Objectives and CTAE Performance Standards: MSCA6-1: Students will understand the personal nature of work and how it relates to them as individuals and as an integral part of society. MSCA6-2: Students will demonstrate an understanding of how to build and maintain a positive self- concept and self-esteem. MSCA6-3: Students will describe, develop, and evaluate how positive interpersonal skills affect their ability to work successfully. MSCA6-4: Students will illustrate effective personal management skills. MSCA6-5: Students will participate in career-related assessments. MSCA6-6: Students will utilize the planning process to achieve personal, social, financial, educational, and career goals. MSCA6-7: Students will analyze societal issues as it relates to career awareness. Grading Policy: Based on a scale of 100, student grades will be weighted as follows: Tests/Quizzes-40%, Class Work-50% (includes projects & participation) and Homework-10%. Extra help provided before school on Tuesdays & Thursdays from 7:30-8:00. Students can also receive extra credit when they dress for success on Wednesdays! Three days of extra credit will excuse 1 zero assignment, (not used for projects, quizzes, or test). No jeans, tennis shoes, hoodies, t-shirts, shorts and varied type boots for dress up days. This is optional and only if you have it!!!

Grading Scale: Schedule “A” or “B” week A = 100 - 90 8:30- 8:35 HOMEROOM B = 89 – 80 8:35- 9:25 1st or 7th (8th grade) C = 79 - 71 9:28- 10:18 2nd or 6th (7th grade)

D = 70 10:21- 11:11 3rd or 5th (7th grade)

F = 69 and below 11:14- 12:50 4th & lunch (planning)

12:53- 1:43 5th or 3rd (8th grade) Yeager Middle School 6th Grade Career Awareness Course Syllabus Mrs. Davina Williams, Teacher (770) 651-5682 [email protected] 1:47- 2:37 6th or 2nd (6th grade) 2:40- 3:30 7th or 1st (6th grade)

Please feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns that you may have about your child’s academic and social progress. Please view your child’s agenda daily, as I will use it to communicate with you. I will also contact you via phone calls, progress reports and notes. Together, we can make this a great year for you and your child! ======I have read the course syllabus, and have discussed the expectations and course requirements that you have set forth for your class. Mrs. Williams is not responsible if this syllabus is lost, but you are responsible for printing out another copy from the Yeager website and turning it in signed.

Student’s Name (please print):______Parent’s/Guardian’s Name (please print)______Parent’s/Guardian’s Signature: ______Parent/Guardian Contact Numbers: Home: ______Cell: ______Work: ______Email: ______

This syllabus is a homework grade and will need to be signed and returned within a week.

Donations of the follow items to the classroom will be greatly appreciated. (Clorox wipes, tissue, hand sanitizer, copy-paper, color paper, glue, color markers and magazines)