Grade 6

Sixth grade students begin their careers program in the late fall.  Students discover their learning style and work on a group project with others of similar learning style.  Our goal is to help students make a connection between how they learn and choosing a career that matches the learning style.

Grade 7

Seventh grade career classes discuss talents and skills, leisure time awareness, and family career trees.  Students explore talents and skills and make connections between these and career choices, as well as discuss how to turn leisure time activities into future careers.  Family career links are discovered by completing the career tree, and classes discuss careers that are influenced by historical factors.

Grade 8

Eighth grade students have a four day career program as their culminating career class experience at Woodbury School.  Students examine the influence of personal choices upon career decisions and the effects of poor or "non" planning of a career.  Students complete a job interest inventory, a values survey, and spend a class period in the computer lab researching careers and salaries based on the results of the job interest inventory.  Results from the job search are used in eighth grade FACS classes, in which students go to a spring job fair in Manchester! Students leave eighth grade with a careers portfolio they have developed from fifth-eighth grade.  This information is useful for future job and school applications; don't lose it!