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It Takes a Team to Run a Restaurant: Introducing Elementary Students to the Interrelatedness of Occupations

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Journal of Career Development

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This action-oriented classroom career guidance activity introduces elementary school students to the need for workers to work together in operating a newly opened restaurant. Through the use of pantomime and role play, students quickly realize that running a restaurant requires a variety of employees who work well together as members of a team.

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  1. Virginia Commonwealth University, 1015 W. Main St., Richmond, VA, 23284-2020

    Andrew V. Beale

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Beale, A.V. It Takes a Team to Run a Restaurant: Introducing Elementary Students to the Interrelatedness of Occupations. Journal of Career Development 29, 211–220 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1021422314412

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