WHITTINGTON, HOLLY
Diversified
Career Preparation
DCP is the cooperative education work program for juniors and seniors
who attend school half a day and go to work half a day.
Course Outline
- Starting a New Job
- Work Based Learning
- Workplace Competencies
- Social Security
- Legal Agencies
- Employer Expectations
- Personal Qualities Needed on the Job
- Succeeding on the Job
- Working with Others
- Stress
- Evaluations
- Team Work and Problem Solving
- Leadership and Group Dynamics
- Participating in Meetings
- Safety on the Job
- First Aid on the Job
- Accidents
- Communicating on the Job
- Listening, Reading, Speaking
- Technology: Computers, Cell phones
- Handling Money: Math on the Job
- Career Planning
- Self-assessment
- Career Clusters
- Computer and Internet Skills
- Researching Careers - Research Paper
- Making Career and College Decisions
- Job Shadow with Local Businesses
- Understanding Income and Taxes
- Income
- Taxes: IRS Project
- Social Security
- Worker's Compensation
- Unemployment Insurance
- Economic/Entrepreneur System
- Free Enterprise System
- Business Ownership and Opportunities
- Business Management
- Legal and Financial Issues
- Planning Your Own Business
- Advertising
- Diversity and Rights in the Workplace
- Job Ethics
- Individual Employment Weaknesses
- Workplace Writing
- Letters, Memos, Reports, Email
- Power Point Presentations
- Business Manners and Etiquette
- Managing Spending
- Budgeting, Banking, Investing
- Credit
- Insurance
- The Job Hunt
- Application Process/Networking
- Resumes
- Letters
- Interviews
- Testing
- Job Search
Grading Procedure
- Averaging: 33% daily, 34% tests, and 33%
employer
- Employer grades will be acquired once each nine
weeks. Grades are taken for students maintaining time sheets for
employment.
- Semester grades (December and May) will be the
average of grades for the entire semester (August through December and
January through May respectively) since this is a yearlong course. Late
work past the final due date will lose points. Assignments not turned in
will receive a grade of zero.
Click the
following links to view lesson plans for the week.
To determine the week you wish to view, visit the District Calendar page of our school's web site.
First
Semester Lesson Plans
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Week 7
Week 8
Week 9
Week 10
Week 11
Week 12
Week 13
Week 14
Week 15
Week 16
Week 17
Week 18
Click the following links to view lesson plans* for the
week.
To determine the week you wish to view, visit the District Calendar page of our school's web site.
Second
Semester Lesson Plans
Week 19
Week 20
Week 21
Week 22
Week 23
Week 24
Week 25
Week 26
Week 27
Week 28
Week 29
Week 30
Week 31
Week 32
Week 33
Week 34
Week 35
Week 36
Week 37
*LESSON PLANS FOR FUTURE DATES MAY BE UNAVAILABLE
- Email: hwhit@springhill.esc7.net