Family Work History

The focus I came up with for my Family Work History questions is more about where the student wants to go when they "grow up."  While the intent is to gather information about their family, the goal is to allow students to reflect on what they've learned from watching their parents work, and how they can utilize that knowledge in their future careers.  

The questions are:

1. What job do you want to have when you graduate high school/college?

2. What did your parents do when they left school?  (What kind of jobs did they find?)

3. What kind of career do they have now?

4. Would you like to follow in their footsteps?

5. What have you learned from watching your parents work?

6.  What did your parents learn from watching their parents work?

I would make this a writing assignment, and send them home with the above questions so they would be able to discuss with their parents the decisions they made.  While this survey doesn't dig quite as far as some others may, I still believe this would benefit a teacher in understanding more about a students immediate families funds of knowledge.  Of course, if a student would like to go further and gather additional information, that would be ideal.