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Helping in Your Child’s Career Development

Helping in Your Child’s Career Development. By: Lacey Judd. Your Child in the Future. Close your eyes and imagine that you can travel through time into the future! It is 2025, fifteen years from today. Take a few minutes to imagine and answer these questions about your child in the future.

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Helping in Your Child’s Career Development

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  1. Helping in Your Child’s Career Development By: Lacey Judd

  2. Your Child in the Future Close your eyes and imagine that you can travel through time into the future! It is 2025, fifteen years from today. Take a few minutes to imagine and answer these questions about your child in the future.

  3. Your Child in the Future • 1. How old is he/she in 2025?

  4. Your Child in the Future • 2. What year did he/she graduate from high school?

  5. Your Child in the Future • 3. Describe where he/she works

  6. Your Child in the Future • 4. Why did he/she choose the profession?

  7. Career Development According to the ASCA National Standards, career development is the acquiring of skills, attitudes and knowledge that enable an individual to make a successful transition from school to the world of work, and from job to job across the life span.

  8. Career Development • Developmental approach: Specific vocational development tasks are accomplished at each life stage. During the Growth stage, birth to age 14 years, these tasks include forming a picture of the kind of person one is, developing an orientation to the world of work, and acquiring an understanding of the meaning of work.

  9. Influence on Child Career development: Students’s career development is influenced by three main sources: • People they know and admire • Their school • Their Parents

  10. Who they know and Admire *Who influenced you?

  11. Influence of Their School • Success in school • Academic strengths and weaknesses • Their teachers • School guidance program

  12. Influence by Parents • While professionals who they admire and the school have a large impact, parents are the most critical factor • If parents do not encourage their child’s career development, a child is much less likely to have pursue their career goals.

  13. What parents can do: Support your child in school • Make school a priority • Help them with homework • Go to school functions • Have a good relationship with teachers/school personnel

  14. What parents can do: Help your children better understand themselves • Help identify strengths • Help identify interests • Help identify unique qualities

  15. What parents can do: • Help your child develop their goals/dreams and encourage them to go after them

  16. A place to start… CAREER DAY June 15, 2010

  17. Career Day Career day is a chance to bring together the three main career influences: • Professionals your child admires • The school • YOU

  18. Career Day • 15 professionals from the community will come to give a hands-on presentation to your children about their career

  19. Ways you can help… • Encourage your child to come and enjoy career day • Come with your child and enjoy presentations • Volunteer

  20. For more Information… • Come talk to me! • Or reach me at another time: Lacey Judd 540-111-1111 Room # 123

  21. References • American School Counselor Association (2004). ASCA National Standards for Students. Alexandria, VA: Author. • Colorin Colorado (2008). 20 ways to help your child succeed in school. Retrieved from www.colorincolorado.org • Council of Chief State School Officers (2010). Warren County Public Schools grade high school cohort. Retrieved from http://www.schoolmatters.com/ • Dearing, E., Kreider, H., & Weise, H.B. (2008). Increased family involvement in school predicts improved child-teacher relationships and feelings about school for low-income children. Marriage & Family Review, 43(3/4), 226-254. Doi: 10.1080/01494920802072462. Retrieved from Ebscohost. • Hoffman, L.R. & McDaniels, C. (1991). Career development in the elementary schools: A Perspective for the 1990’s. Elementary School Guidance & Counseling, 25(3). Retrieved from Ebscohost. • U.S. Census Bureau (2010). State and county quick facts. Retrieved from http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/51/51187.html • Virginia Department of Education (2010). Warren County Public Schools. Retrieved from https://p1pe.doe.virginia.gov/reportcard

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