Grade 6 CTE SOL Standards

Communicating on the Job

Developing an Academic and Career Plan

Discovering More about Yourself

Exploring Career Plan Options and Possible Destinations

Compare the concepts of work, job, and career.

Describe education and career terms.

Explore the 17 career clusters.

Explore career pathways and occupations of interest.

Investigate a career of interest.

Identify opportunities for education/training to prepare for a career.

Explain the cost of education and/or training.

Identify personal assets.

Examine personal assets in light of one�s responsibilities as a family member, student, or community member.

Complete a career interest assessment.

Relate your skills, interests, talents, and values to a career.

Identify short-term and long-term goals.

Research options associated with courses in your school division and regional center related to career interests.

Review a decision-making process to course options.

Review the student Academic and Career Plan Portfolio.

Draft an Academic and Career Plan.

Describe self-advocacy strategies. (optional)

Communicate verbally and nonverbally in a professional manner. (Optional)

Demonstrate telephone etiquette.(Optional)

Compose written professional communication (e.g., emails, letters). (Optional)

Describe the importance of active listening skills. (Optional)

Troubleshoot workplace problems, issues, or conflicts to find a solution. (Optional)

Describe the importance of inviting and responding to constructive feedback. (Optional)

Provide constructive praise and criticism. (Optional)

Respond to praise or criticism. (Optional)

Demonstrate public speaking skills (e.g., large group, small group). (Optional)

Describe the privacy issues related to online communication media.

Identify privacy policies and issues related to employees using or misusing online communication media.

Developing Leadership Skills

Identifying Career Connections

Exploring Education and Early Childhood Concepts

Exploring Textiles, Fashion, and Apparel Concepts

Examining Consumer and Family Resources

Understanding Nutrition and Wellness

Developing Responsibility for Living Environments (Personal Environments)

Examining the Individual's Role in the Family

Understanding Positive Interpersonal Relationships

Exploring Human Development

Exploring Work-Based Learning

Addressing Elements of Student Life

Demonstrating Professional Competencies

Demonstrating Interpersonal Skills

Demonstrating Personal Qualities and Abilities

Demonstrate creativity and innovation.

Collaborate with team members.

Demonstrate big-picture thinking.

Demonstrate career- and life-management skills.

Demonstrate continuous learning and adaptability.

Manage time and resources.

Demonstrate information-literacy skills.

Demonstrate an understanding of information security.

Maintain working knowledge of current information-technology (IT) systems.

Demonstrate proficiency with technologies, tools, and machines common to a specific occupation.

Apply mathematical skills to job-specific tasks.

Demonstrate critical thinking and problem solving.

Demonstrate professionalism.

Demonstrate reading and writing skills.

Demonstrate workplace safety.

Identify the purposes and goals of the student organization.

Explain the benefits and responsibilities of membership in the student organization as a student and in professional/civic organizations as an adult.

Demonstrate leadership skills through participation in student organization activities, such as meetings, programs, and projects.

Identify Internet safety issues and procedures for complying with acceptable use standards.

Identify the types of work-based learning (WBL) opportunities.

Reflect on lessons learned during the WBL experience.

Explore career opportunities related to the WBL experience.

Demonstrate initiative and self-direction.

Participate in a WBL experience, when appropriate.

Identify influences on individual development.

Explain the major traits of character development.

Explain Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

Set a personal goal.

Describe responsibilities for personal safety.

Manage transition in the school environment.

Perform a task by completing the steps in a sequence.

Demonstrate positive communication techniques to express individual feelings, needs, and ideas.

Demonstrate ways of getting along with others.

Demonstrate integrity.

Demonstrate positive ways to resolve disagreements.

Identify the contributions of different cultures to society.

Describe the student’s roles and responsibilities within the family.

Identify strategies to strengthen families.

Use a problem-solving/decision-making model to address individual issues within the family.

Demonstrate ways to maintain a clean environment.

Identify ways to conserve natural resources.

Apply sustainability practices to the individual’s personal living environment.

Identify nutrients, their functions, and food sources.

Interpret information found on food labels.

Demonstrate work ethic.

Describe common food allergies and dietary needs.

Demonstrate food safety and sanitation practices.

Demonstrate measuring techniques.

Follow a standardized recipe to prepare a simple, nutritious snack.

Demonstrate basic kitchen safety practices.

Practice standard dining etiquette.

Develop a plan for personal wellness.

Identify personal resources.

Identify strategies for earning and saving money.

Explain the relationship between education/training and income.

Demonstrate conflict-resolution skills.

Demonstrate comparison shopping techniques useful in lifelong decision-making.

Explain the importance of consumer safety.

Describe how to care for your clothes.

Identify basic textile tools and their functions.

Demonstrate simple clothing repair.

Construct a simple textile project.

Identify parts of the sewing machine and their functions.

Reflect on lessons learned during the WBL experience.

Prepare a snack appropriate for young children.

Assess personal interests and skills as related to career choices.

Demonstrate listening and speaking skills.

Identify career clusters.

Use the FCCLA planning process in course activities.

Complete a national FCCLA program project and/or competitive event.

Demonstrate respect for diversity.

Demonstrate customer service skills.

Identifying the Contexts of Technology and Engineering

Examining Systems (Optional)

Using the Engineering Design Process

Designing Solutions

Examining Resources of Technology

Investigating the Effects of Technology

Introducing Technology

Define technology.

Identify historical examples of technology.

Identify how technologies have emerged through the use of engineering.

Research careers and the technologies used in them.

Describe how society affects technology and technology affects society.

Analyze how an invention or innovation was influenced by its historical context and future need.(Optional)

Identify emerging technologies.(Optional)

Predict future technological changes.

Identify resources used in technology and engineering.

Identify the six simple machines that make mechanical technology work.(Optional)

Differentiate between types of materials.(Optional)

Select materials based on their properties when designing a technology.(Optional)

Demonstrate the safe use of a minimum of three tools and/or pieces of equipment as part of the design process.

Explain the ethical and moral use of technologies.

Demonstrate types of measuring.

Create sketches and drawings.

Describe the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) engineering design process.

Demonstrate the use of an engineering design process.

Define the goal of a challenge.

Design a device using criteria and constraints.

Evaluate viable solutions.

Select a solution.

Plan the model or prototype.

Produce a model or prototype.

Assess the design.

Describe how the solution could be improved.

Communicate the results.

Use the engineering design process as part of a team.

Illustrate how processes change inputs to outputs in any system.

Identify the parts of a system within a device.

Identify contexts of technology and engineering.

Describe the energy and power context of technology and engineering.(Optional)

Describe the medical and health-related technologies contexts of technology and engineering.(Optional)

Describe the agricultural and biological technologies contexts of technology and engineering.(Optional)

Describe the information and communication contexts of technology and engineering.(Optional)

Describe the built environment contexts of technology and engineering.(Optional)

Describe the transportation and logistics contexts of technology and engineering.(Optional)

Describe the material conversion and processing contexts of technology and engineering.(Optional)

Describe the computation, automation, AI, and robotics contexts of technology and engineering.(Optional