Welcome to Our Career Exploration for High School Students Homeschool Curriculum

Getting Started with Our Career Exploration for High School Students Homeschool Course

Carol Topp’s Career Exploration for high school students homeschool elective course guides the teen through a process they can use to discover what career path or college major to pursue. Career Exploration is not designed to tell the homeschool teen exactly what they will do with the rest of their life, but only a possible direction to take next. Lessons include informative articles, self-inventory worksheets, relevant websites, and inspiring true stories. Together, these tools help the teens explore career possibilities and discover talents and interests they may not realize they possess. These lessons are best taken in sequential order as they progressively build on each other.

Overview

• 8 weeks, 1 day a week
• Includes downloadable lessons and links to additional information
• Grades 7th-12th

Supplies Needed

Corresponding lessons on SchoolhouseTeachers.com

What to Do

Go to Class Lessons and download the lesson plan and Week 1 lesson. Start with the Day 1 reading assignment. Follow the instructions each day on the lesson plan and check them off when completed.

Course Sample for Our Career Exploration for High School Students Homeschool Course

Week One: Decision Making and Discerning God’s will

A large part of career exploration is trying to discern God’s will for your life.

Dr. Bill Bright founded Campus Crusade for Christ (now called Cru) and was frequently asked about discerning God’s will by the college students he worked with. You can find Dr. Bright’s “Sound Mind Principal letter” at http://crupressgreen.com/the-paul-brown-letter/ .

I encourage you to read it to start this course. He wrote it to a young student named Paul Brown, and so it is also often referred to as “The Paul Brown Letter.”

After reading that letter, take your time and answer these questions through this upcoming week:

What is a sound mind?

How is it different from common sense?

What are some of the areas of talents Dr. Bright mentions?

Can you list more areas of talents (see Romans 12:6, Ephesians 4:11, and I Corinthians 12:1-31)?

Outline (list) the steps Dr. Bright recommends in the letter to discern God’s will.

What is a “closed door” policy?

What does Dr. Bright think of the “closed door policy” and why?

Summarize the Sound Mind Principle.

What are some ways that you can begin to discern God’s will for your life?