Educator Tools and Resources
We’ve curated this amazing list of online tools from across Texas and DFW to help local educators find even more inspiration and insight as they prepare young minds for the real world.
The career quiz, career explorer and program explorer are great ways to explore occupations and choose paths based on student skills and interests. Provides financial aid information and features video interviews of employees across all career paths.
A lifestyle calculator to help students determine how much money they will need to make for the lifestyles they want to live, as well as a review of monthly expenses, minimum salary needs and a list of occupations that earn the needed or desired salary.
Navigate: Exploring College and Careers
The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas’s Navigate worksheets encourage students to think about future career goals and achievements. A helpful glossary of key terms helps students navigate college and career conversations.
Educators love Texas OnCourse’s interactive curriculum resources, like MiddleGalaxy, a fun online game for middle school students. Texas OnCourse also offers free professional development workshops and training.
When I Grow Up–Career Lesson and Activities
Career exploration curriculum designed to help prepare 9th-12th graders for life after high school via 19 unique lessons directed by a teacher or facilitator. Group activities to reveal student skills, explore careers. Lessons include roleplaying and hands-on learning.
TEXO strives to educate and train the next generation of construction professionals. The digital resources for educators instruct students about the construction field, covering safety, tools and products, and Procore, and Bluebeam. Links to CTE resources and offers curriculum-to-go boxes for the classroom.
Future Aviation/Aerospace Workforce
FAAW’s tools for Aviation/Aerospace Education & Workforce Development has been curated from hundreds of articles to provide educators with the best aerospace industry resources, including the AAR Eagle Career Pathway Program, the Aerospace Joint Apprenticeship Committee and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.