SCHOOL COUNSELING LESSON PLAN

TITLE of Lesson: Career and Decision Making Unit - Lesson 2

Grade Level(s):

Length of Lesson: 45 minutes

1. Identify Desired Results

What should students know and/or be able to do as a result of this lesson?

Learning Objective: Students will identify their personality type based on the Holland code and connect their personality
type with possible career choices
ASCA Domain(s):
Academic Development
Career Development
Social/Emotional Development

Which one(s)?
Standard(s)
Standard(s) 4 and 6
Standard(s)

Mindset/Behavior Standards:
MS 5 Belief in using abilities to their fullest to achieve high
quality results and outcomes
BS:LS 1 Critical thinking skills to make informed decisions
BS:SS 1 Use effective oral and written communication and
listening skills

2. Assessing Student Learning

Formative: How will you determine that the objective has
been met?
Students will complete pages 8-13 of the career game,
participate in class discussion on the Holland Code and be
able to identify their personality type.

Summative:

3. Materials

Career Game brochures

Posters of personality types

4. Activity
I. Warm Up: Remind students of the work they previously had completed in the Career Game book
II. Counselor Directed Instruction:
Give instructions for students on how to complete the rest of the book. Stress that it does not matter if they have not
actually done the things they check off, they only have to think it may be something they are interested in doing.
Ask students to total up their check marks and write the totals in the appropriate boxes.
Introduce the Holland personality types. Put up the posters of each type. Discuss each one, going into details about each
type including information such as likes, values, things they may avoid and personality traits.
Ask students to consider the color they had originally had the high score for and give them the option to change it now that
they have more information
Read clues describing a particular personality type and ask students to guess which type you are describing.
III. Student Guided Practice: Students independently complete the remainder of the Career Game book.
IV. Closure: How will you assist students in reflecting upon what they learned today? Are you prepared for tomorrows
lesson? What launching task or activity will be assigned, if any, to help students practice or elaborate on a concept
or skill taught?
Tell students that next time we will be meeting in the computer lab, and that students will have the opportunity to
investigate careers that suit their personality types.

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5. Reflections
Student Learning Expectations: Did students achieve
the stated objective? How do you know? If not, why not?

Revised August 2016

Implementation: How effective was the lesson? What

went really well? What would you do differently?