“Hello Summer School, Goodbye Wages” Check out the student guide you can use and download for this lesson on making decisions about decision-making and informed career choices.
What did your last summer look like? A break from classes with a summer job, or more of the same? Did you have any say in what you did, or did parents make the decision for you? Did you perform a “cost benefit analysis” to determine what the best arrangement was for your future? If the proof is in the pudding, statistics show students around the country have concluded that skipping experience with work just makes sense; if that time is replaced with academics. The chance to get ahead in studies, or remediate when needed seems to be an increasing trend among high school teens. While students may be equipping themselves for college with extra studying, there is concern with a lack of work experience when entering the workplace. When high school students make the decision to forego working a part time job, what are they really giving up other than earning minimum wages? Discuss with a partner and make a list of what teens are sacrificing when they give up work experience. Read the article attached and consider the following:
Create a half page flyer, to help students in your career navigate between choosing summer school or summer work. You may choose to include a pro and con list, or a venn-diagram to help illustrate your thoughts.
Florida Financial Literacy Standards: SS.912.FL.6.9: Explain that loss of assets, wealth, and future opportunities can occur if an individual’s personal information is obtained by others through identity theft and then used fraudulently, and that by managing their personal information and choosing the environment in which it is revealed, individuals can accept, reduce, and insure against the risk of loss due to identity theft. SS.912.FL.1.1: Discuss that people choose jobs or careers for which they are qualified based on non-income factors, such as job satisfaction, independence, risk, family, or location. SS.912.FL.1.2: Explain that people vary in their willingness to obtain more education or training because these decisions involve incurring immediate costs to obtain possible future benefits. Describe how discounting the future benefits of education and training may lead some people to pass up potentially high rates of return that more education and training may offer. SS.912.FL.1.3: Evaluate ways people can make more informed education, job, or career decisions by evaluating the benefits and costs of different choices. SS.912.FL.1.4: Analyze the reasons why the wage or salary paid to workers in jobs is usually determined by the labor market and that businesses are generally willing to pay more productive workers higher wages or salaries than less productive workers. Literacy Standards LAFS.K12.R.1.1 Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text. LAFS.K12.W.3.8 Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, assess the credibility and accuracy of each source, and integrate the information while avoiding plagiarism. Comments are closed.
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