Careers
Career Vocabulary
Portfolio
Name that Cluster
Mystery Questions
100
something you do simply to just earn money
What is a job?
100
integrated programs and services intended to develop students’ core academic, technical and employability skills.
What is a career pathway?
100
a teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful community service with instruction
What is service learning?
100
investment planning. banking, insurance, and business management
What is "Finance" cluster?
100
Did all the teachers at the International High School at Prospect Heights go to college in New York? Yes or No?
No, many teachers at IHSPH went to college in other states including New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and even other countries.
200
This is the amount of pathways a person has to choose from based on what their career is.
What is the 16 clusters?
200
a work experience option where students learn about a job by walking through the work day as a shadow to a competent worker.
What is Job shadowing?
200
person that may personally or professionally know of your work ethic.
What is references?
200
Preparing individuals for employment in career pathways that relate to families and human needs.
What is "Human Services"?
200
Before Ms. Nedda was a Principal & Assistant Principal at the International High School at Prospect Heights, what was her job?
Social Worker
300
an occupation undertaken for a significant period of a person's life and with opportunities for progress.
What is a career?"
300
Short-term or long term plan
What is a goal?
300
Community service, extra curricular activities, job history
What are other items that should be in your portfolio?
300
Public safety, homeland security,
What is "Law, public safety corrections, and security"?
300
Do you have to be a U.S. citizen to attend college in the United States? Yes or No?
No, you do not have to be a U.S. citizen to attend college in the United States. But, you need to be a U.S. citizen to receive money from the U.S. government to help you pay for college.
400
broad groups of occupations and industries.
What are "career clusters?"
400
If you use science to gather evidence and information that can be used in courts for criminal trials then you studied:
What is Forensic Science
400
IT occupations, design and development
What is "information technology"?
400
How many class credits (points) do you need to graduate from high school in New York City?
44 credits
500
Financial aid is money you may receive from the government to help you pay for college.
What is "financial aid?"
500
a brief written account of personal, educational, and professional qualifications and experience, as that prepared by an applicant for a job
.What is a resume?
500
designing, planning, managing, building, and maintaining the built environment.
What is "architecture & construction"?
500
If you graduate from high school in New York, are you allowed to go to college in another state? Yes or No?
Yes, you can attend college in any of the 50 states as long as a college in that state accepts you as a student.