This document analyzes learners for an 8th grade Career Education class project on creating a digital company directory. It describes the 24 students as generally beginner level with diverse backgrounds. The objectives are for students to create an Excel or Word spreadsheet including department, position, name, and email for a company. The methods include teacher examples and students working independently or in pairs/groups. Materials include computers, projector, and websites. Student participation will involve obtaining information and inputting it into the spreadsheet. Their work will be evaluated using a rubric focusing on career development tasks and opportunities to apply business skills.

1. Catherine Manlapaz
ED 607 – Dr. Cyrus
March 30, 2012
Analyze Learners
• General Characteristics: The instructional unit is suited for 8th grade students for Career Education class,
an elective they are assigned to be enrolled in. It is a class of 24 students. There is one student with
emotional disturbance, while others are with no disabilities. The class is culturally diverse with
Micronesian, Chamorro, Filipino, and one student who are Asian. The students come from families of
various socioeconomic statuses, in which most are from lower or middle class families.
• Entry Competencies: Students are all beginner entry level for this class, as business is not taught in
previous years to them.
• Learning Styles: Students prefer to work in pairs or in a group as they learn better in this setting.
Students do well in test when review is provided before the test, if no review they don’t do so well. With
the student that is disabled, he/she is to work with a group they prefer in, and teacher must always
choose at least once per day to ask disabled student to participate in answering questions so that he/she
feels they are doing well.
State Objectives
• Students are to create a digital spreadsheet of a company directory. It is to include department name,
name of position, name of individual, and email of the individual.
• Students must use Microsoft Word or Excel to create and print documents.
Select instructional methods, media, and material
• Methods
o Teacher will provide examples each day of a company directory and sample that position from a
company that has that position of an employee
o Students will work on their own, but also be in pairs or groups of three to help each other as they
will focus representing the same company
• Media
o Microsoft Word
o Microsoft Excel
o Youtube.com to showcase videos of companies from teacher
• Material
o Information from resources teacher obtains
o Computer lab, reserved for the day by teacher
o Projector
o Provide listing of recommended websites students may browse aside from search engines
Utilize Media and Materials
• Teacher will use personal laptop and projector to review previous lesson and current lesson and also
examples
• Teacher will display a pre-made table of a sample of a company to reference their assignment to
Prestige Automobiles
Department Position Name Email Address
Marketing Administrator Cristina Ishmael cishmael@prestigeautoguam.com
Accounting Manager Elsie Serisola eserisola@prestigeautoguam.com
Accounting Assistant Ana Absalon aabsalon@prestigeautoguam.com

2. Require Learner Participation
• Students will work in a pair or groups of three in whom they choose to
• Students will use textbook, examples teacher provides, or internet, and phonebook.
• Once information is obtained, students are to use Microsoft Word or Excel to put input information
required for portfolio
• Once assignment in completed by due date, students will turn in to teacher.
Evaluate and Revise
• Assessment of learners
o Students will read and gather information from reliable resources.
o Students will be able to present information and answer related questions at minimum 90%
accuracy
• Evaluation of methods
o Rubric below is to assist in evaluation of their work of portfolio.
Portfolio
Development Portfolio Development Continuum
Indicators Unacceptable Acceptable Target
Include business and
Includes business and technological
technological procedures, concepts,
procedures with few and problem solving
Primarily includes application tasks. tasks with multiple
basic terms, following Instructions of career/ applications
Describe the nature rules and developing job presented must be Career/job process
of the learning tasks discrete skills. detailed. available.
Describe strategies
to promote Describe Provide multiple
understanding of opportunities in opportunities to
human resources, developing ethical practice business
economic theories, decisions related to decisions related to
laws affecting personal affairs, the business, the
personal and Emphasizing theories successful operation successful operation
business decisions and laws with little or of organizations or of organizations or
in the global no practical business activities of business activities of
marketplace. application. the country. the country.
Describe the
strategies used to
promote students' Providing multiple
understanding of the opportunities to apply
ever evolving Using approaches that critical thinking,
requirements of the focus on career Uses instructional problem solving, team
workplace and the development and strategies that building, ethics,
relationship of career exploration engaged students in communications, and
lifelong learning to with little opportunity using and applying decision-making
career success. for application. employability skills. skills.