Day 2: Career Iceberg and Goal

Daily Learning Contract

• Topic: Career Assessment
• Objective: Students will explain the visible and hidden work behind one career and name a current direction.
• TEKS: d(1)(A), d(8)(A)
• Demonstration of Learning: Career Iceberg and Goal in the FYF workbook, support packet, or Canvas annotation.

Lesson Overview

Before Class

Provide one FYF workbook per student and optional colored pencils shared by table. The default route requires no printing or device. Open the annotation assignment and four-page enlarged packet only for students using an alternate route; print only for those students. Do not ask a student to complete both the workbook and packet. Art quality is not scored.

Warm-Up (5 min)

When people see a successful worker, what work do they usually not see?

Activity 1: Read the Model (10 min)

Use FYF pp. 6-7. Above the waterline belongs to what an observer can see: the role, a product, a uniform, or a result. Below the waterline belongs to skills, tools, practice, training, decisions, challenges, and support.

Model one item in each underwater category. Do not fill the student's career for them.

Activity 2: Build a Personal Iceberg (18 min)

Students use FYF p. 8 and select one current career idea. They add:

• at least three visible items above the waterline; and
• at least eight specific hidden items below it, including skill, tool, training, responsibility, challenge, and support.

Students label the hidden items as skills, tools or technology, education or training, and responsibilities or challenges. Canvas annotation, the enlarged packet, typed labels, and audio description are equal replacement routes when the workbook is unavailable. The student must be able to read every label at normal viewing size.

Monitoring pass 1: By build minute 6, students have at least one skill, tool, training step, responsibility, challenge, and support.

Pivot: If students list only visible products, pause and sort the supplied architect examples. If time slips, trim the final share-out, not the goal or research question.

Activity 3: Turn the Iceberg into a Goal (12 min)

Students complete FYF pp. 283-284:

1. current career direction;
2. two reasons connected to Day 1 evidence;
3. one hidden requirement they are willing to work on; and
4. one question that needs research.

The goal is a working direction, not a promise.

Exit Ticket (5 min)

Name one hidden requirement that changed how you see this career. Does it strengthen, weaken, or complicate your interest? Explain. Students close devices and return shared supplies before leaving.

Supports and Fallbacks

• Absent: Use the embedded model and complete the same iceberg independently.
• Workbook unavailable: Use the enlarged packet, Canvas annotation, typed labeled list, or audio response.
• Support: Use the labeled underwater zones and vocabulary bank.
• Extension: Add a second career and compare one hidden requirement.