This
information has been taken directly from the Accelerate
U - Standards and Resource Guides (with approval) from the K-12
Education, NEW YORK STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT site. No information
in this document has been changed.
LEARNING STANDARDS FOR:
CAREER DEVELOPMENT AND OCCUPATIONAL
STUDIES
AT THREE LEVELS
Standard 2: Integrated
Learning
Students will demonstrate how academic
knowledge and skills are applied in the workplace and other settings.
1. Integrated learning encourages students to
use essential academic concepts, facts, and procedures in applications
related to life skills and the world of work. This approach allows
students to see the usefulness of the concepts that they are being
asked to learn and to understand their potential application in
the world of work.
Students:
- identify academic knowledge and skills that
are required in specific occupations
- demonstrate the difference between the knowledge
of a skill and the ability to use the skill
- solve problems that call for applying academic
knowledge and skills.
This is evident, for example, when students:
- describe jobs in the local community; list
academic knowledge and technical skills needed to perform a specific
job, and make a diorama showing a person engaged in work*
- retell a story about how a school cafeteria
employee uses mathematical and English language arts skills on
the job
- interview a person from the community in
an occupation of interest and describe for the class how the competencies
they are learning in school (mathematics, science, health, English
- language arts) are used in the selected
occupation
- integrate mathematical/science concepts
to plan and design a garden, basketball court, or fish pond
- describe jobs in the local community, list
academic knowledge and technical skills needed to perform a specific
job, and make a diorama showing a person engaged in work
- apply mathematical skills to purchase items
from a grocery store, compare prices, total their purchases, and
count change
- explain why being able to tell time is important
to an airline pilot, a football referee, or a teacher
- participate in a show-and-tell exercise
to inform their classmates how reading, writing, speaking, and
mathematics are used by a poet, musician, nurse, clown, or police
officer
select four samples of their work (completed
hands-on projects depicting various occupations) and describe the
academic knowledge and technical skills needed for those particular
jobs.*
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