The Challenge Mindset

The

Challenge

Mindset

Shelburne Regional
High School

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How many job titles do you know of?

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The

Problem
with Job

Titles

• Too many job titles to keep track of

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• Focus on prestige and salary, TV

characters

• Job titles will change, or don’t exist yet

• Job descriptions are increasingly hard

to create

Poll

What’s the most challenging part of figuring out a future career?

• Deciding on just one thing to focus on

• Finding reliable information about different careers

• Researching education and training options

• Knowing what careers match my interests and skills

• Feeling pressure to have everything figured out now

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Job Titles

Problems, Challenges

and Opportunities

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Problems,

Challenges

and

Opportunities

• Clean our oceans

• Increase intergenerational

learning

• Celebrate different cultures

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Problems,

Challenges

and

Opportunities

• Improve our local park

• Build furniture that lasts

• Encourage voter participation

Multiple Choice

The Challenge Mindset...

• forces you to think of what job title you want to do forever.

• encourages you to think of problems, challenges and opportunities to be involved in.

• means that you are going to solve a massive problem alone.

• None of the above

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The world needs you.

=HOPE

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If you don't choose the challenges you want to work on someone else will choose for you!

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-Go to app.mysparkpath.com

-Create a student account with this unique
code: NSCC.CareerDev2020

STEP 1: Sort the Challenge Cards

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Sort the Cards

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Options: Not Interested - Interested - Very Interested

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Click the info
button to learn
more about the
challenge.

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Pick Your Top 3 Challenges

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Open the pdf to review your personalized challenge profile!

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-Create a student account with this unique code:

NSCC.CareerDev2020

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-Reflect on your selected
challenges by answering
the questions on the next
slide.

STEP 2: Reflection

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1.Why did you choose these challenges?

2.

Why are your cards a challenge in today’s society?

(Read over the first paragraph on each card)

3.

Who do you want to help where your challenges are concerned?

(Read over the second paragraph on each card, but please note that not
all cards have this)

4.

How are these three challenges related?

Reflection Activity

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-Email your Personalized Challenge
Profile to yourself

-Next, review the suggested follow-up
exercises. They will reveal concrete
steps you can take to explore how
you can get involved with your
selected Challenge areas.

Step 3: Review your Challenge Profile

Open Ended

What are 2 things that stick with you from today's activity?