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Three professionals compare career paths and a development plan around a table
Mixed-Skill Mastery · TF17

Choose a Career Path and Development Plan

Compare evidence, defend a direction and adapt the first 90 days when the conditions change.

Level
B2
Time
30 minutes
Lesson type
Mixed-Skill / Mastery
Topic family
Work, Jobs & Career

Your Goal

Compare two career options with explicit criteria, distinguish evidence from assumptions, choose one direction, design an actionable 90-day plan and defend a revised decision after new constraints.

คำอธิบายเป้าหมายภาษาไทย

เปรียบเทียบทางเลือกอาชีพสองทางด้วยเกณฑ์ที่ชัด แยกหลักฐานจากข้อสันนิษฐาน เลือกทิศทาง วางแผน 90 วันที่ทำได้จริง และปรับการตัดสินใจเมื่อเงื่อนไขเปลี่ยน

Why this lesson matters

For the learner: Career decisions involve values, evidence, uncertainty and trade-offs—not one perfect answer.

For the teacher: This mastery route integrates TF17 job language, listening, experience evidence and planning through evidence → comparison → response → action plan → changed constraint → retry.

คำอธิบายภาษาไทย

บทนี้ฝึกตัดสินใจเรื่องอาชีพอย่างมีเหตุผล โดยมองทั้งรายได้ การเรียนรู้ ความเสี่ยง คุณค่า และข้อจำกัด แล้วแปลงการเลือกเป็นแผนปฏิบัติที่ตรวจสอบได้

EVDADAPTFPProgress Focus
EVD · Evidence useSeparate verified facts, reasonable inference and missing information.
ADAPT · AdaptationRevise the choice or implementation plan when credible conditions change.
FP · Final performanceDefend a feasible direction with actions, timing, success signals and fallback.

30-minute lesson path

3 minSet criteria
5 minRead evidence
5 minCompare
5 minListen & challenge
5 minPlan 90 days
7 minAdapt & retry
Teacher Lesson Plan · Read before class

Require a source for every important claim. A preference may guide the choice, but it must not be presented as verified evidence.

TimeTeacher doesStudent doesRequired evidence
0–3Frames decision quality.Ranks four criteria.Transparent priorities.
3–8Provides option evidence.Separates fact and unknown.EVD record.
8–13Challenges trade-offs.Scores and qualifies options.Defensible comparison.
13–18Plays Matthew.Restates and questions.Accurate response.
18–23Tests feasibility.Builds 90-day plan.Owner/timing/signal/fallback.
23–30Plays Emma and scores.Adapts, defends and retries.EVD/ADAPT/FP.

Feedback rule: Score the unsupported judgement. Give one success and one revision target; retry only the weakest 30–45 seconds.

1. Set the decision criteria before choosing

3 min

Growth

skills · mentoring · future options

Feasibility

income · time · energy · risk

Fit

interest · values · work style

STUDENT TASK

Choose four criteria, give each a weight from 1–3 and explain why your highest-weight criterion matters now.

Teacher Help · Stage 1

Do not accept hidden criteria introduced only after a preferred option appears. Make priorities visible first.

2. Read the evidence and mark the unknowns

5 min
CriterionOption A · current-company team leadOption B · junior data role
IncomeStable pay; promotion route stated.Lower first-year salary; exact review timing unknown.
LearningMentoring and leadership practice.Formal technical training and new field.
Evidence of readinessCurrent performance and internal knowledge.Some spreadsheet experience; presentation skill gap.
Personal constraintLow financial risk; limited challenge.Evening study; four months of savings.
EVIDENCE CHECK
  1. Mark four verified facts.
  2. Mark two inferences and three unknowns.
  3. Write two questions that could change the decision.
Teacher Help · Stage 2

Challenge phrases such as “better future” unless the learner names what is known and what remains uncertain.

3. Compare the options and form a provisional choice

5 min
COMPARE
  1. Score each option against your four weighted criteria.
  2. Name the strongest advantage and biggest risk of each.
  3. Choose provisionally or state what information prevents a choice.
  4. Use: Although…, the evidence currently favours… because…
Decision-quality check: A strong answer can choose either option, but it must acknowledge a real cost and one uncertainty.
Teacher Help · Stage 3

Ask “Which criterion carries that judgement?” Do not force the higher numerical score if the learner can justify a decisive constraint.

4. Listen to the candidate and challenge the reasoning

5 min
Matthew · American English · Amazon Polly Neural
LISTEN & RESPOND
  1. Identify both offers, the financial constraint and two skill factors.
  2. Restate the candidate’s dilemma neutrally.
  3. Ask one evidence question and one feasibility question.
  4. Give a provisional recommendation with a qualification.
Transcript · open after the task

I have two realistic options. The first is a team-leader role at my current company. It offers stable pay, mentoring and a clear promotion route, but it would keep me in work I no longer find challenging. The second is a junior data role with another company. It matches my long-term interest and includes formal training, but the first-year salary is lower and I would need to study in the evenings. I have savings for four months and some spreadsheet experience, although my presentation skills still need work.

Teacher Help · Stage 4

Play once for the dilemma and once for evidence. Require a neutral restatement before recommendation.

5. Turn the choice into a 90-day development plan

5 min
PeriodActionSuccess signalFallback
Days 1–30Confirm expectations; baseline one skill.Written goal and first evidence sample.Reduce scope; keep the key skill.
Days 31–60Complete one applied project with feedback.Usable output and mentor review.Smaller project or extra practice session.
Days 61–90Present results and decide the next development target.Specific feedback and measurable improvement.Extend deadline with evidence-based reason.
BUILD

Adapt every row to the chosen path. Name who supports each action and when progress will be checked.

Teacher Help · Stage 5

Reject “learn more” as an action. Require an observable activity, timing, signal and fallback.

6. Final Practice · adapt after the conditions change

7 min
Emma · British English · Amazon Polly Neural
Transcript · open after scoring

There is one important change. The data company has moved the start date forward by six weeks, so the evening course cannot be completed before the job begins. However, they will provide a mentor for the first three months. Your current company has also offered a temporary team-leader trial with no immediate pay increase. Decide whether this new evidence changes your choice, and revise the first ninety days of your development plan.

INDEPENDENT MASTERY
  1. Identify every changed fact and what remains unknown.
  2. Revise, qualify or defend the provisional choice.
  3. Deliver a 90-second decision with two benefits, one real risk and one uncertainty.
  4. Revise the first 90 days with actions, timing, success signals and fallback.
  5. Answer one challenge from the other option’s perspective.
  6. After feedback, retry only the weakest 30–45 seconds.

Final Practice evidence

EVD · Evidence useSeparates changed facts, prior evidence, inference and unknown accurately.
ADAPT · AdaptationRevises the choice or implementation plan directly in response to the new conditions.
FP · Final performanceDefends a feasible direction with action, timing, success signal and fallback.

Teacher scoring guide

0 · Not yetThe criterion is absent after one clear prompt.
1 · With supportThe criterion is partial or needs a supplied reasoning step.
2 · IndependentThe criterion is clear, qualified and feasible without a model.

Target: 5/6 overall, FP = 2 and no zero after the focused retry.

Teacher Help · scoring and retry

Do not supply the revised decision. Score first, give one success and one revision target, then allow a focused retry.

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