ACADEMIC AND CAREER PLAN High School (9 & 10) Outcomes
The individual will:
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Know
- Demonstrate knowledge of their preferences, interests, hopes, dreams ,passions, and individual interests
- Demonstrate ability to appreciate their unique aptitudes, abilities, strengths, barriers and challenges
- Demonstrate ability to make informed decisions
- Recognize the effect of peer pressure on decision making
- Understand the consequences of decisions and choices
- Demonstrate appropriate skills for interactions with adults and developing and maintaining positive peer relationships
- Use appropriate communication and conflict resolution skills with peers and adults
- Understand how character traits, interests, abilities, and achievement relate to attaining personal, educational, and career goals
- Demonstrate knowledge of their culture and environment
- Demonstrate ability to take care of oneself emotionally and physically
- Assignments that identify a student’s personality type in order to understand different personality types when considering careers through the lens of personality as well as considering post secondary education through the lens of personality
- Identify internal strengths and external supports
Plan
- Demonstrate understanding of the education and training needed to achieve career goals
- Use research skills to locate, evaluate, and interpret career and educational information
- Understand that behaviors such as punctuality, courtesy, proper dress and language, and hard work are essential to success in the job market
- Identify the relationship of course content, educational achievement, and career choices
- Demonstrate awareness of educational vocational, and technical training opportunities available in high school and beyond
- Understand the relationship of dependability, productivity, and initiate to academic and job success
- Understand the importance of high school course and/or program selection in relation to future academic and career options
- Understand high school graduation requirements and post-secondary entrance requirements
- Understand individual assessment results in relation to educational progress
- Demonstrate the skills needed to develop a high school academic and career plan based on ability, interest, and achievement.
- Articulate through written form or other creative work, the impact of academic performance may have on future career options
- Demonstrate the ability to recognize financial aid vocabulary and know what options are available to pay for post secondary options
- Review of transcripts/academic record
- Lessons on standards for high school graduation vs. post secondary admission
- Lessons on standardized tests; types, preparing to take, elements of and understanding of the results
- Lesson on navigating high school: identifying when you need help, where to go, how to advocate for self
- Lessons on effective study strategies; time management, getting and staying organized, taking notes
- Defining ways to pay for college
- Developing a personal timeline for high school
Explore
- Explore career clusters, pathways and industry
- Learn about postsecondary education for various careers
- Learn about traditional and nontraditional occupations and related training options
- Understand the influences and impact of cultural biases and stereotypes on career options
- Develop skills to locate, evaluate and interpret career information
- Supported in making informed decisions about possible career paths
- Understand the effect of career choices on quality of life
- Websites and print information offering self-assessments, background information on careers, jobs and the training that leads to them
- AttendCareer fairs, expos, campus visits.
- Career exploration courses
- Individual and group counseling on programs of study, technical training, post secondary
- Role model and mentoring
- Identify a job shadowing experience
- Participate in a service learning project
- Conduct an informational interview around a chosen career field
- Explore /Dual enrollment courses, AP courses, CTE courses
Go
- Modify academic goals as necessary
- Modify personal goals as necessary
- Modify career goals as necessary
- Update regularly
- Individual or group conferencing
- Transition to next grade level
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