Starting Out, Here and Now
How do you investigate the world of work outside the classroom? Students learn by interviewing, job shadowing, and other activities to use local businesses as a resource.

Exploring Your Career Cluster
What's the difference between 'a career' and 'a career path'? Students explore the idea that they might have several different careers and work with career clusters to see how skills are the connections between successive destinations.


Showing Your Skills -
Your Portfolio
How do you make a 'portfolio' that reflects career exploration? They learn how to present their school community projects as part of a portfolio, and they prepare core job-search materials (letters and resumes).

Your Own Business -
You Incorporated!
How can you be sure you'll have a job? A career? Give one to yourself! Students look at how exploring their interests, skills and different career options could lead to creating their own businesses.

Produced by
WTVS Detroit Public Television
in association with the Michigan Information Technology Network.

Jobs, Work, and Your Career
What's the difference between 'getting a job' and building a career? Students look at what work means to them and how work based on their interests and skills can shape their future.


The Changing World of Work
Students look at how high tech has 'remade' jobs, how employment in their local economy and geography has changed, and how 'global competition' has changed the world of work.


Working in School
Students look at how school has already given them many non-specific skills for the workplace (like team work and problem solving), and how job skills make schoolwork 'make more sense.'


Learning From Watching
Other People Work
Students look at how people's work reflects their interests and skills and see how a job can grow into a career.


Exploring Your Own Career
How do you use your interests and skills to discover what kinds of work you might want to do? Students look at the connection between career clusters and their choices about what they do in school.