Day 5: Xello Explore Career Matches

Daily Learning Contract

• Topic: Career Assessment
• Objective: Students will analyze one Xello career match using an interest, a career task, and evidence from Find out why.
• TEKS: d(1)(A)
• Demonstration of Learning: Xello Explore career matches completion plus submitted private Canvas reflection.

Lesson Overview

Before Class

1. Check the Xello Completion Standards report for Matchmaker and Save careers. Students need Matchmaker complete and at least three saved careers.
2. Assign supervised catch-up for missing prerequisites. Do not make a student invent a career choice.
3. Open the locked Canvas resource package: facilitator guide, Irving-adapted slides, one-page student directions, and official student video.
4. Test ClassLink to Xello on the student network.
5. Keep the full resource's 120-minute option separate from today's required 35-minute district minimum.
6. Open the unpublished private reflection assignment. Print the one-page reflection only when assigning paper.
7. Default route: individual work with one device per student. A peer navigator may point to the next step but does not control another student's account or view private results unnecessarily.

Warm-Up (5 min)

Use one prompt from the official Xello slide deck:

WARM-UP: Is it okay to cross a career off your list even if it scores high on Matchmaker? Explain.

Students write first, then two volunteers share. An assessment result is a starting point for investigation, not a command.

Activity 1: Explore Career Matches in Xello (35 min)

Students log in through ClassLink > Xello.

1. Open Home and select Lessons.
2. Open Explore career matches.
3. Review the lesson prompts about interests and career matches.
4. Use Find out why for at least one career match.
5. Compare the match with the career's tasks and the student's interests.
6. Complete the lesson in Xello.

The official 1-page directions and video remain beside the numbered steps in Canvas. Required directions stay visible; the longer facilitator guide is teacher-only.

Completion evidence: Use the Xello Completion Standards report. Do not require a public screenshot of a student's profile or assessment results.

Safe trim: Cut the separate exit prompt because the private reflection already captures the TEKS evidence. Do not cut the 35-minute Xello lesson, Find out why, report verification, or catch-up record. Reserve two minutes for students to submit privately, sign out, and close personal account screens.

Activity 2: Private Reflection (5 min)

Students complete the before-and-after section:

• one match they were unsure about;
• what they used to think;
• one interest and one work fact they reviewed;
• what they think now;
• what changed or did not change their view.

The student may choose the match. Do not require them to share the result with a partner.

Private Reflection and Exit Check (5 min)

EXIT TICKET (Short Constructed Response) · Printable PDF:

The final private-reflection response is the exit check: explain one reason a student should think critically about a career-assessment result instead of accepting or rejecting it immediately. Use one detail from today's Xello work. Do not submit a second response.

Teacher Key and Extension Prompt

Mastery signal: The response treats the result as evidence to investigate and cites an interest, task, or Find out why detail.

DOK 2 prompt: Explain how one interest and one career task together support, complicate, or change your first reaction to a match.

Access, Absence, and Platform Failure

• Support: Keep the one-page directions visible, read the numbered steps aloud, chunk the lesson, and offer a private written response.
• ELL: Use bilingual labels for match, interest, task, evidence, and changed. A full translation is not required.
• Absence: An absent student may review the page and video independently, but completes the Xello lesson during the teacher's approved catch-up window.
• If Xello is unavailable, students watch the official video, use the sample reflection, and complete the written learning task. The required platform lesson moves to supervised catch-up.
• If prerequisites are missing, use the same catch-up rule. Do not pretend a paper sheet completed Xello.
• H&L is optional today. It does not replace Xello completion.

Optional Extension

Use Find Your Future pp. 82-83, Patient Education, with Canva or Adobe Express. Students generate or sketch a labeled medical illustration, compare it with a trusted anatomy source, and identify one accurate feature and one problem. This is an extension, not part of the Xello minimum.