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Course, Subject

Home & Careers, Career Development and Occupational Studies

Assessment

• Students communicate what they want to be when they grow up.
• Class discusses the positive aspects of the “future people” shared by the students.

Author

CDOS Writing Team, Authors of Career Development and Occupational Studies (CDOS) Resource Guide with Core Curriculum.

Materials / Resources

• Art paper
• Drawing and coloring materials

Comments / Modifications

• Students can dress up as the person they want to be and give an oral presentation.
• “Me in 20 Years” can be used for older students or students with more advanced writing skills.

Duration

20–30 minutes

Essential Question

Who am I?

Description

Objective: Students will picture themselves as competent and successful.

• Class participates in a discussion of what makes someone successful or important. Discussion can include identification of specific people and their traits.
• Students imagine themselves as people who are successful or important. Students think about what they would be if they could be anything, or do anything they wanted, when they grow up.
• Students draw pictures of themselves as they want to be when they are adults, including the setting.
• Students decorate a paper briefcase to represent the type of job they would like to have when they grow up.
• Class discusses what students can do to become the type of people they have identified.
• Students write a story called “Me in 20 Years.”

Source

CDOS Writing Team. “Me in the Future.” In Career Development and Occupational Studies (CDOS) Resource Guide with Core Curriculum. New York State Department of Education, 16.

Related Academic Standards

New York State

CDOS 

CDOS.C.1 Students will be knowledgeable about the world of work, explore career options, and relate personal skills, aptitudes, and abilities to future career decisions.

CDOS.C.1.1 Students will learn about the changing nature of the workplace, the value of work to society, and the connection of work to the achievement of personal goals.

CDOS.C.1.1.A Students complete the development of a career plan that would permit eventual entry into a career option of their choosing.

CDOS.C.1.1.B.SW 

1. Apply self-knowledge of skills, interests, and abilities:
   1. Detail personal skills into a priority list
   2. Detail personal interests into a priority list
   3. Compare priority lists to determine best career options
2. Select a career option.
3. Determine steps to acquire employment, enter postsecondary study, or both.
4. Analyze labor market/employment data for selected careers in the local, regional, national, and global employment markets:
   1. Need
   2. Advancement opportunities
   3. Financial rewards
   4. Promotional aspects
5. Reevaluate long-term goals.
6. Identify action steps to obtain long-term goals.

CDOS.C.1.1.C Students analyze skills and abilities required in a career option and relate them to their own skills and abilities.