300 likes | 478 Views
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
E N D
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
Relevance Why 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 work 2. Financial pressures 3. 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
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
Links Supplement Career Cruising Power to Learn - career lessons for all grade levels http://www.powertolearn.com/teachers/lesson_activities/careers/index.shtml Career 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. B http://breitlinks.com/careers/career_activities.htm My 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 Cruising Summary of Features
Search by type Search by name Search by state
Complete your tour Follow the Guided Tour Packet
Create a Lesson Browse the Resources & Work on a Lesson that Will Fit into your Course(s)