Are you looking for some assessment to guide your students in making career choices? This product, Checking Out Career Paths with Chaz, will guide secondary students through career choices using different websites that have current, accurate, and detailed information about hundreds of careers. Each student will use self-discovery assesments designed to gather information specific to that student about their learning style, their career interests, and careers that match their skills. The program will help students narrow down their search to a few occupations, so students can look for opportunities in their communities to further investigate the occupations that they have chosen. Students can do this by shadowing a person working in that occupation, or get an apprenticeship or an internship in that occupation or volunteering in some aspect of that occupation. These opportunities will provide more information about what that occupation is really like and whether it would be a good fit for them as a career in the future.
A little more information about the product:
 People who can guide a student or students through the program are a counselor, a teacher, a parent, or a paraprofessional.
 The program can be done with an individual student or a group of students.
 Items needed for this program are a computer with internet access, a pencil, and a folder.
 The timing for this program is very flexible. It is designed to take 3 hours in one sitting or it can be completed in multiple sittings over a period of days, weeks, or months. It is designed to be revisited over the years to obtain new career information.
 Items you will find in this program:
• Power Point presentation (29 pages)
• Lesson plan with detailed instructions (4 sets of plans with 2 pages each
• Printable worksheets (11 worksheets)
+ Learning Style Profile sheet
+ Matching Up Interest sheet
+ Matching Up Skills sheet
+ Exploring Careers sheet
+ Reflection Questions sheet
 The information gathered about a student can be used at parent/teacher conferences or provided information for Postsecondary Transition section on a student’s I.E.P (Individual Education Plan).