CCE Career & College ExplorationsIrving ISD · Grade 7

Six Weeks 5 · Week 6 · Thursday

Day 4: Real-Estate Labor Evidence and Economic Sensitivity

Students will analyze dated wage, growth, openings, self-employment, and economic-sensitivity evidence for real-estate careers.

Daily Learning Contract

  • Topic: Labor Trends
  • Objective: Students will analyze dated wage, growth, openings, self-employment, and economic-sensitivity evidence for real-estate careers.
  • TEKS: d(5)(A)
  • Demonstration of Learning: Fixed-source labor analysis, Jordan recommendation, and retryable practice check.

Lesson Overview
Time 50 minutes
TEKS d(5)(A)
Deliverable Fixed-source labor analysis, Jordan recommendation, and retryable practice check
Materials BLS evidence guide, calculators optional, unpublished unlimited-retry Canvas Quiz

Evidence Boundary

The fixed BLS evidence is national and dated. It does not prove DFW starting pay, a current vacancy, a worker shortage, future home prices, or guaranteed commission income. H&L and live housing sites are optional enrichment only.

Before Class

Provide one Canvas-capable device or one two-page labor guide per student. Project this model: BLS reports a $56,320 May 2024 U.S. median for Sales Agents. That does not prove DFW starting pay, and the wage survey excludes self-employed workers. Keep the five-question practice Quiz unpublished, ungraded, and unlimited-retry. It is feedback after the guide, not a second written DOL.

50-Minute Flow

1. Warm-Up: Growth Is Not Openings (5 min)

Students predict the difference between projected growth and annual openings. Clarify that openings include replacement needs and do not equal live job postings.

2. Read the Fixed Evidence (10 min)

  • Real Estate Sales Agents: $56,320 May 2024 U.S. median annual wage.
  • Real Estate Brokers: $72,280 May 2024 U.S. median annual wage.
  • Combined group: 3% projected growth, 2024-34.
  • Combined group: about 46,300 annual openings on average.
  • BLS reports 54% self-employed in each occupation's 2024 employer distribution.
  • BLS wage data exclude self-employed workers.
  • Work may slow during declining economic activity or rising interest rates.

3. Analyze Labels and Limitations (20 min)

Students complete four evidence jobs:

  1. compare the two medians without calling either starting or local pay;
  2. explain why 3% growth and 46,300 openings are not contradictory;
  3. explain how economic conditions can affect work and irregular earnings;
  4. name one local question the national source cannot answer.

4. Apply to Fictional Jordan (10 min)

Jordan values flexible scheduling but needs predictable monthly income. Students recommend a next investigation step using two BLS facts, one risk, and one authorized local source to verify. There is no predetermined career answer.

5. Practice Quiz and Exit (5 min)

Students use the unlimited-retry Quiz to repair median, openings, self-employed, and economic-sensitivity claims. Quiz attempts are ungraded.

Monitoring Key

At minute 14, students should label both medians with date, geography, measure, and occupation. If one-third call openings growth, model replacement needs versus net change. By minute 29, the explanation should separate 3% growth from about 46,300 annual openings. By minute 40, the Jordan response should use two facts, one risk, and an authorized source. By minute 47, students should repair at least one Quiz label. Safe trim: teacher-check Questions 1-3 orally and leave the Quiz for catch-up; protect the written conclusion, limitation, and Jordan recommendation. Collect one guide route.

Support and Fallback

All evidence appears in the fixed guide. Provide chunked cards, read-aloud, calculator, bilingual labels, or typed/dictated response. A live site is not required.