California Career and Technical Education Standards

• HSMT.FS.1.0 Academics
• HSMT.FS.2.0 Communications
• HSMT.FS.5.3 Use critical thinking skills to make informed decisions and solve problems.
• HSMT.FS.7.3 Understand the need to adapt to varied roles and responsibilities.
• HSMT.FS.7.4 Understand that individual actions can affect the larger community.
• HSMT.FS.7.5 Know how to interact appropriately and respectfully in various employment situat...
• HSMT.FS.8.5 Understand and maintain the Patients’ Bill of Rights, patients’ and clients’ con...

California Academic Content Standards (Reinforced)

• ELA.9-10.LS.2.3a Apply appropriate interviewing techniques that prepare and ask relevant questions.
• ELA.9-10.LS.2.3c Apply appropriate interviewing techniques use language that conveys maturity, se...
• ELA.9-10.LS.2.3f Apply appropriate interviewing techniques that compile and report responses.

• Pop Quiz - Hooks / Set

  Tell students, " I need you to get out a blank piece of paper and we are going to take a Pop Quiz" True or False....

  #1 Most elderly individuals are cared for in institutions or Long Term Care (LTC)/Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF).

  #2  Anyone over 65 is old.

  #3 Elderly people are incompetent and unable to make decisions and handling their own affairs.

  #4 All elderly people live in poverty.

  #5 Older people are unhappy and lonely.

  #6 Elderly people do not want to work.

  #7 Retired people are bored and have nothing to do.
• Self Check

  Ask the students to correct  their papers.  Tell students that all of the answers are false.  Share with students that sometimes people think about others in ways that are not true. These are called Myths.  Often, younger people do not have an idea of what older people think or do.  Ask the students, "Do you think there are myths about  teenagers just as their are myths about elderly people?"   Have a discussion about some of the common myths about teenagers  (rude, spoiled, on drugs, etc).
• Write all about it. - Assessment

  Students will be asked to interview and elderly person (see handout below).  Students will be expected to share out about some of the myths they held about elderly people and what they learned from the interveiw process.