tracy peed and meghan wignall. ● why infuse career education into your classroom? ● add the...
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CAREER EDUCATION ACROSS THE CURRICULUM
Tracy Peed and Meghan Wignall
Agenda
● Why infuse Career Education into your classroom?
● Add the career component to what you’re already doing
● Summary of Career Cruising Features● Guided Tour of Career Cruising
● Work on a lesson that fits in your course
RELEVANCEWhy infuse Career
Education into your classroom?
Pathways to Prosperity�Published in February, 2011 through the Harvard Graduate School of Education
�William Symonds, project director collaborated with Robert B. Schwartz and Ronald Ferguson in writing the report. Article
���Focus:
“How can we successfully meet the challenge of preparing young people for the 21st century?”
“How might education development meaningful career training as a part of comprehensive school reform?
What’s in a Name
�How can educators, career and technical educators and school counselors face the dilemma of competing issues between career readiness and college readiness?
Postsecondary READINESS……not college admissions.
Career �� READINESS……not career preparedness.My course: Career Exploration & Post-Secondary Planning
D. Conley, College and Career Ready, 2010
Change How You Think
For too many of our youths, we have treated preparing for college vs. preparing for a career as mutually exclusive options.
What do Futurists Tell us?
�It is projected that the U.S. economy will create some 47 million job openings over the 10-year period ending in 2018. Nearly two-thirds of these jobs, it is estimated, will require that workers have at least some post-secondary education.
�Students need post-secondary education!!!!!
Why Are We Failing
Lack of Relevance�United States now has the highest college
drop-out rate in the industrialized world.�Students drop-out of college [dont’ consider post-secondary �
education] due to:1. Under-preparation for the academic work2. Financial pressures3. Can’t see the connection between their program of study and opportunities in the
labor market
Build Pathways with Intentionality
• �Its time to widen our lens and build a more finely articulated pathways
• �Build stronger connections between course content and careers
• �Overcome barriers including weak or nonexistent career counseling, rising college cost, inadequate financial aid, and the frequent need to balance courses with jobs that are often totally disconnected from a student’s programs of study
• Career knowledge & connectedness
NBHS Pathways
We need your help - Especially CTE and Elective teachers!
Linking School Subjects to Career & College Readiness
Student Planning & Pathways of Study
Student Planning & Pathways of Study
Student Planning & Pathways of Study
ADD THE CAREER COMPONENT
How to infuse career exploration into your classroom
Ideas to get you thinking...
What types of careers are related to your course?
• Students select a career to research that is related to your subject area/course
• Utilize Career Cruising and outside resources for research
• Students put together a presentation about the career they chose and present to the class
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RST.11-12.9 Synthesize information from a range of sources (e.g., texts, experiments, simulations) into a coherent understanding of a process, phenomenon, or concept, resolving conflicting information when possible.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RST.6-8.7 Integrate quantitative or technical information expressed in words in a text with a version of that information expressed visually (e.g., in a flowchart, diagram, model, graph, or table).
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RST.6-8.4 Determine the meaning of symbols, key terms, and other domain-specific words and phrases as they are used in a specific scientific or technical context
Career Cruising
allows students to
search careers that
are related to specific school
subjects.
Ideas to get you thinking...How can I use this project in the real world?
• Students create a project or assignment that is already part of your curriculum
• Ask students to research careers that utilize the work they have created
• Students write a report relating the project to a career
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RST.11-12.7 Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g., quantitative data, video, multimedia) in order to address a question or solve a problem.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RST.11-12.9 Synthesize information from a range of sources (e.g., texts, experiments, simulations) into a coherent understanding of a process, phenomenon, or concept, resolving conflicting information when possible.
Art Example
Students paint a caricature of a famous person they admire.
Ideas to get you thinking...Learn more about a career you already discuss
• Some careers are already discussed within your curriculum
• Utilize Career Cruising as another source of research
• Students relate course information to real world experience
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RST.11-12.7 Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g., quantitative data, video, multimedia) in order to address a question or solve a problem.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RST.11-12.9 Synthesize information from a range of sources (e.g., texts, experiments, simulations) into a coherent understanding of a process, phenomenon, or concept, resolving conflicting information when possible.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.7.9 Analyze how two or more authors writing about the same topic shape their presentations of key information by emphasizing different evidence or advancing different interpretations of facts.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RST.6-8.4 Determine the meaning of symbols, key terms, and other domain-specific words and phrases as they are used in a specific scientific or technical context
LinksSupplement Career Cruising
Power to Learn - career lessons for all grade levelshttp://www.powertolearn.com/teachers/lesson_activities/careers/index.shtmlCareer Jeopardy Games - SmartBoard games organized by Career Cluster and grade level http://pages.minot.k12.nd.us/votech/File/Jeopardy.htm Kids.gov - resources organized by subject (grades 6-8)http://kids.usa.gov/teens-home/index.html Career Exploration by Mr. Bhttp://breitlinks.com/careers/career_activities.htmMy World of Work - based in Scotland, but has excellent content about subject areas http://www.myworldofwork.co.uk/content/help-what-subjects-should-i-choose Cybrary Man - tons of great content, not organized the best http://www.cybraryman.com/
CAREER CRUISINGSummary of Features
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COMPLETE YOUR TOURFollow the Guided Tour Packet
CREATE A LESSON Browse the Resources & Work on a
Lesson that Will Fit into your Course(s)