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Pathways to Careers in STEM

Discover the NAPE Counselor Toolkit for Equitable STEM Career Counseling with activities & discussions. Create an action plan to integrate tools for shaping the future. Explore STEM careers, engage with lesson plans, and complete STEM Career Scavenger Hunt activities. Learn about engineering's impact on our lives and pathways to diverse STEM opportunities with a variety of educational levels. Utilize resources and workshops to enhance counseling practices for underrepresented students in CTE and STEM fields. Dive into work values, kudos cards, and useful strategies for promoting STEM careers.

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Pathways to Careers in STEM

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  1. Pathways to Careers in STEM Counseling Tools forStudent Engagement CTEEC | September 20, 2013 Elizabeth Tran Program Manager NAPE etran@napequity.org

  2. Agenda • Learn about the NAPE Counselor Toolkitfor Equitable STEM Career Counseling • Complete 2activities & discuss • Write anaction planfor how you will integrate these tools into your job

  3. Napequity.org/counselors

  4. Counselors make a difference • STEM professionals are in demand • Women are underrepresented in most STEM disciplines • STEM professionals make a world of difference and help shape our future Building the Toolkit • Focused intervention efforts targeting women make a difference

  5. Explore STEM Careers Booklet • Lesson Plans & Activities • Special Tools • Engineering Our World • STEM Career Scavenger Hunt • Health, Happiness, and Safety • Work Values & STEM Careers • Kudos Cards • Student Resource Website & Handout Unpacking the Toolkit

  6. create a list of all the items you have used today that have been engineered • Engineering Our World

  7. identity ONE thing you used today that has NOT been engineered in some way • Engineering Our World

  8. Changing the Conversation • STEM Professionals • make a world of difference and help shape the future. • STEM Careers • are essential to our health, happiness, and safety. • STEM Professionals • are creative & collaborative problem-solvers.

  9. There are multiple pathways to & opportunities in STEM careers Certificate Associates Bachelors Masters Doctorate

  10. Technical Marketing& Sales Business Leadership An Education in STEM enables many career options & opportunities STEM Degree Educator Entrepreneur Patent Law

  11. STEM Career Scavenger Hunt STEM Career Exploration Resources Objective: Through this activity, participants will increase their awareness of opportunities and pathways to STEM careers. Use your smart phone or device to connect to one of the following websites.

  12. STEM Career Scavenger Hunt STEM Career Matrix (Activity Part 1) Work alone or in pairs. Complete the following table by selecting STEM Careers that are new & interestingto you. Discuss with those around you what you learned or discovered. • 7 out of 10 of the fastest growing occupations (requiring at least a 2 year degree) are in STEM

  13. STEM Career Scavenger Hunt STEM Career Scavenger Hunt (Activity Part 2) Work in small groups. Complete the following worksheet by selecting 15 different STEM Careers that are new & interesting. Write your findings on the wall posters. Discussion • To improve equity and accessibility, messaging matters.

  14. Kudos Cards Napequity.org/counselors

  15. Explore STEM Careers Booklet • Lesson Plans & Activities • Special Tools • Engineering Our World • STEM Career Scavenger Hunt • Health, Happiness, and Safety • Work Values & STEM Careers • Kudos Cards • Student Resource Website & Handout Order the Toolkit(or download) Napequity.org/counselors

  16. NAPE has developed a series of workshops for counselorsthat integrate current research-based counseling practices to ensure the academic success and college and career preparednessof underrepresented studentsin CTE and STEM courses and programs of study. STEM Career Workshops

  17. Action Plans • Which tool(s) looks to be the most useful to you? • How can/will you use these tools? • When will you use these tools? • With what student groups and what settings? • Kudos Cards: Identify 3 students

  18. Work Values & STEM Careers Work Values Activity

  19. Engineering is essential to our health, happiness& safety Engineers are creative& collaborative problem-solvers Engineers make a world of difference and help shape the future

  20. STEM careersare essential to our health, happiness& safety STEM professionalsare creative& collaborative problem-solvers STEM professionalsmake a world of difference and help shape the future

  21. Resources for You • Grand • Challenges • http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/ • Pathways to Prosperity • http://www.gse.harvard.edu/news_events/features/2011/Pathways_to_Prosperity_Feb2011.pdf • CTE: Five Ways That Pay… • http://www9.georgetown.edu/grad/gppi/hpi/cew/pdfs/CTE.FiveWays.FullReport.pdf

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