Grade Level: Middle or High School
Duration: One class period
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2. Skills in Action
🎯 Objective
Students identify their personal strengths and connect them to potential careers and
workplace expectations.
🧰 Tools
Career Exploration: Career Profiles
Reflection: Career Journal
(Optional) Employability Videos
👩🏫 Teacher Script
“Everyone has skills, but we do not always notice them. Today you will explore your strengths
and match them to real careers by looking closely at the skills professionals use every day.”
🧾 Steps
1.Choose two strengths you believe you
use often (i,e. communication, problem
solving, leadership, teamwork, etc.)
2.Explore one Career Profile that
highlights each strength.
3.Optional: Watch one Employability
Video that highlights a skill you chose.
4.Record your findings in the Career
Journals for each career.
💬 Reflection
Format: Whole class, small groups, or
individual
Prompts:
Which skill do you rely on most?
Which skill will matter most in your future
career?
What is one way you could strengthen
one of your skills?
⏰ Suggested Timing
Skill identification: 10 min
Career Profile research: 20 min
Reflection: 10 min
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2. Skills in Action — Student Worksheet
Name:
Date:
1. My Strengths
Write two strengths or skills you think you use often.
1.
2.
2. Career Matches
For each strength, find a Career Profile that uses it.
Strength 1:
Career match:
How is this skill used in that job?
3. Skill Spotlight (optional video notes)
If you watched a related Employability Video, write one thing you learned.
4. Reflection
Which of your two strengths do you want to grow more, and how could you do that?
Strength 2:
Career match:
How is this skill used in that job?