Over my first three years of teaching, I have made great use of many on-line lesson plan resources such as EconEdLink, The Stock Market Simulation, the IRS, Insurance Education Initiative Educator Resources, Education World, and others. InTime Video, however, is the first one I have seen that uses video to explain how a lesson/unit plan works.
I chose a high school Career Exploration lesson plan presented by a Kansas business education teacher. It was very easy to observe how she integrated technology and Internet research with careers. Not only did the videos (nine topic-specific videos were included in this presentation) show students working on and presenting their career projects but the teacher explaining her research and background work in preparing the career lessons and unit.
Included with the videos were the purpose, description, activities, standards, tools and resources, assessments with rubrics, timelines (good for pacing help), and comments for the lesson plan. This text could be downloaded and printed in a Word document or a PDF file. I like this because I can write notes as I am preparing, presenting, and reflecting on a lesson.
A current application of this careers lesson would be to have my Business Venture students do a modified (for 8th and 9th graders) version as a precursor to deciding what they want to do for their business plan project. I stress that students should be involved in careers that they love and have an aptitude for. This careers lesson plan would reinforce that and require that my students give serious thought to their career plans and subsequent business involvement.
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