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Day 1: RIASEC Revisit + Favorites Audit

Lesson Overview
Time 50 minutes
Objectives Compare original RIASEC results from Week 0 to current career interests; complete the H&L "Thinking About My Career Journey" self-check; audit all favorited careers from the first 18 weeks
TEKS d(1)(A)
Deliverable Completed RIASEC vs. Favorites worksheet listing top 3 clusters by favorite count plus a one-sentence growth statement
Materials Chromebooks, H&L accounts, H&L Workbook (Ch 16, p. 264, "Thinking About My Career Journey"), printed RIASEC vs. Favorites worksheet, projector

Warm-Up (5 min)

Before the Warm-Up. Return Week 0 Reflections

Have students pull out their Week 0 My Career Journey reflection from the class folder you saved them in per the 1SW Wk0 Day 5 Persistent Portfolio admonition. If a student was absent during Week 0 or is new to the class this semester, have them retake the H&L "Discover My Core" assessment today as their personal baseline, treat this week as their Wk0 equivalent. Also have every student open their Climber Profile in H&L now (before the warm-up prompt) to surface any login or data-access issues before the activity begins.

WARM-UP: Look back at your Week 0 My Career Journey sheet (or pull up your Climber Profile in H&L). Do you think your RIASEC type would be the same if you took the assessment again today? Why or why not?

Collect 2-3 student responses. Bridge to the idea that career exploration is supposed to change you. The point of the first 18 weeks was not to lock students into a career, it was to give them enough data to make a real choice.

Activity 1: "Thinking About My Career Journey" Self-Check (12 min)

Source: H&L Workbook Ch 16, p. 264, "Thinking About My Career Journey"

Direct students to open their workbook to Chapter 16. Read the framing aloud from the workbook: this course has covered career clusters, Hats, presentation skills, research, self-reflection, communication, and more.

Students complete the self-audit chart on page 264. Next to each concept they place either: - Star = "I need more practice with this" or "I want to learn more about this" - Check = "I feel confident about this"

The concepts in the workbook chart include: career clusters and pathways, how professionals tackle challenges, Hats, collaboration and teamwork, presentation skills, research skills, self-reflection, resumes, job searching and references, cover letters, job interviews, Powerskills, and personality and values.

After 8 minutes, ask students to count their stars vs. checks and write the totals at the top of the page. The ratio is a quick proxy for confidence, most students will have more checks than stars by mid-year, which itself is the data point.

Facilitation Tip

Watch for students who star everything ("I'm not good at any of this"). That is usually self-doubt rather than reality. Pull them aside and ask them to point to one concept where they did good work earlier this year, then have them change that star to a check on the spot.

Activity 2: Favorites Audit (20 min)

Source: H&L Climber Profile + scope-and-sequence Ch 1-13 history

Students open the H&L app and navigate to their Climber Profile. They scroll to the favorited Hats section and count how many careers they have favorited in each of the eight clusters explored so far:

  1. Manufacturing (1SW Wk1)
  2. IT (1SW Wk2-5)
  3. Law & Public Service (2SW Wk1-2)
  4. Health Science (2SW Wk3-4, Wk6)
  5. Agriculture (3SW Wk1-3)
  6. Hospitality (3SW Wk4)
  7. Human Services (3SW Wk5)
  8. Business (3SW Wk6)

[H&L PLATFORM] In H&L, students go to Climber Profile → Favorited Hats to see every career they have liked across all clusters. If the app sorts by date rather than cluster, students will need to manually tally. That tally itself is the activity. The workbook (Ch 1) calls this the "Discover My Core" data, paired with the favorites that students added in each cluster chapter.

On the printed RIASEC vs. Favorites worksheet, students fill in: - Column A, RIASEC type from Week 0 (Doer, Analyzer, Creator, Helper, Persuader, or Organizer) - Column B, Number of favorites in each cluster (8 rows) - Column C, The 3 clusters with the most favorites, ranked - Column D, Does my Week 0 RIASEC match my current top cluster? (Yes / No / Sort of)

Students who have not favorited many careers spend the first 5 minutes browsing their Climber Profile history and adding 3-5 favorites they remember liking but never tagged.

Facilitation Tip

Some students will have zero favorites, usually because they forgot to tap the heart icon during earlier weeks. Let them go back through clusters now and add favorites based on memory. The point of the audit is the reflection, not the historical accuracy of when the favorite was added.

Activity 3: Think-Pair-Share — Growth Discussion (10 min)

In pairs, students share:

  1. Their RIASEC type from Week 0
  2. Their top cluster by favorite count today
  3. Whether the two match, and if not, what explains the gap

After 4 minutes of partner talk, collect 3 volunteer responses from across the room. Look for both "my RIASEC matches perfectly" and "my favorites went a totally different direction" stories, both are valid mid-year outcomes.

DOK 2: How would you explain the difference between "interests" and "favorites" using your data from today? Which one do you trust more, and why?

Exit Ticket (3 min)

EXIT TICKET (Comparison Matrix) · Printable PDF:

Use your Day 1 worksheet to fill in the matrix.

Week 0 (start of year) Mid-Year (today)
My RIASEC type
My top cluster by favorites (N/A — no favorites yet in Wk 0)
# of favorited careers 0

Bottom line: Does my Week 0 RIASEC type MATCH my current top cluster? Circle: YES / NO / SORT OF.

In one sentence, if my interests shifted, what CAUSED the shift? (Example activity, teacher, classmate, surprise career fact.) (d(1)(A))

Differentiation

  • Support: For students who cannot find their original RIASEC results, project the H&L "Discover My Core" navigation steps. If they still cannot find it, give them the option to retake the assessment today and treat that as their baseline.
  • Extension: Compare RIASEC type to favorited Hats by counting how many of the favorites match the recommended Hats for that RIASEC type in H&L. Calculate a "match percentage."
  • ELL: Bilingual RIASEC type card (Doer = Hacedor, Analyzer = Analizador, Creator = Creador, Helper = Ayudante, Persuader = Persuasor, Organizer = Organizador). Allow students to write the growth statement in Spanish.