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Facilitator Guide: Career Fair Step 1 — Choose + Commit

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Career Fair Step 1 — Choose + Commit

Run the current student lesson with its existing evidence, resources, and submission route.

Daily Learning Contract

Topic: Career selection criteria

Objective: Students will compare career options using stated personal and research criteria and justify one career as the strongest investigation choice.

TEKS: No independent Grade 8 Technology Applications TEKS claim. This lesson provides operational, preparatory, or cross-curricular evidence.

Demonstration of learning: Three-career shortlist plus a written justification that compares the selected career with at least one alternative.

Use what is already in Canvas

Student-facing task: Career Fair · Step 1: Choose a Career. Keep the current student page, requirements, points, and rubric as the source of truth.

  • Career Fair project guide
  • project walkthrough deck
  • Xello pool
  • current Step 1 assignment

Before students begin

  • Open the student task in Student View and test the exact sign-in, link, file, or submission path students will use.
  • Prepare only the listed existing materials; do not require a personal account or a new unlisted product.
  • Keep the current student page available as the accessible and absence route.

Lesson flow

  1. 1. Launch: Put the purpose in front of students: Students will choose one career with a stated reason to investigate it.
  2. 2. Model: Use one current example, tool, or teacher resource before students begin research framing.
  3. 3. Guide: Complete the first decision or step together; conference before students commit to a direction.
  4. 4. Build: Students complete the existing Canvas task. Do not add a second product or change the current rubric.
  5. 5. Check + next step: Verify this evidence before students leave: Three-career shortlist and one career commitment.

Scaffolds and teacher decisions

Keep the student lesson's bilingual tabs, word bank, models, and current support route in view while students work. Reduce the number of examples or provide a partially completed planning frame before reducing the evidence. If a student needs an alternate format, preserve the same named evidence and use the current rubric or teacher judgment rather than adding a hidden requirement.

Close the loop

Use the current Canvas submission for grading. Record the specific misconception, access issue, or revision need you observed; use it to choose the next lesson's launch rather than creating a duplicate exit assignment.