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Zachary Community School District Journey to College and Career It starts with a vision… Presented by: Melissa Doucet ,

Zachary Community School District Journey to College and Career It starts with a vision… Presented by: Melissa Doucet , Northwestern Middle School Counselor Bianca Brown, Zachary High School Counselor Kelly Hinote , Assistant to the Coordinator of Special Programs.

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Zachary Community School District Journey to College and Career It starts with a vision… Presented by: Melissa Doucet ,

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  1. Zachary Community School District Journey to College and Career It starts with a vision… Presented by: Melissa Doucet, Northwestern Middle School Counselor Bianca Brown, Zachary High School Counselor Kelly Hinote, Assistant to the Coordinator of Special Programs

  2. Zachary Community School District Journey to College and Career Presented by Melissa Doucet, Counselor The JTCC Comprehensive Plan Middle School Steps The Plan in Action

  3. Middle School Career Craze Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade Journey to College and Career

  4. Sixth Grade Lessons Lesson 1: Career Tree and Resume’ Writing

  5. Career Tree Police Officer Firefighter Photographer Potential jobs are recorded on leaves of Career Tree. Physically Fit Name: Peter Parker Taking pictures Helping Others Photography, Spiders, Newspaper Skills of student are recorded on branches. Interests of student are recorded on the base of the tree. Military Policeman CI A Agents Parent, friends, and family jobs are recorded on the roots of the Career Tree. Stay-At-Home Aunt

  6. Middle School Resume Middle School Resume _________________________________________________ ______________ Your Name Initial Date _________________________________________________ ______________ Your Address Revised Date _________________________________________________ ______________ City State Zip Revised Date Position Sought: ________________________________________________________ Abilities and Talents: • ________________________________________________________________________ • ________________________________________________________________________ • ________________________________________________________________________ • ________________________________________________________________________ Achievements and Awards: • ________________________________________________________________________ • ________________________________________________________________________ • ________________________________________________________________________ • ________________________________________________________________________ • ________________________________________________________________________ Clubs and Organizations: • ________________________________________________________________________ • ________________________________________________________________________ • ________________________________________________________________________ • ________________________________________________________________________ • ________________________________________________________________________ Work Experience: • ________________________________________________________________________ • ________________________________________________________________________ • ________________________________________________________________________ • ________________________________________________________________________ • ________________________________________________________________________ Community Service: • ________________________________________________________________________ • ________________________________________________________________________ • ________________________________________________________________________ • ________________________________________________________________________ • ________________________________________________________________________

  7. Sixth Grade Lessons Lesson 2: California Career Zone

  8. California Career Zone: www.cacareerzone.com Name: _____________________________ Date: ______________Team/Grade: ___________ Write your username and password for California’s Career Zone: Username: ________________________; Password: __________________________ Complete the Interest Profiler What were your top 3 interest areas in order of importance? • _____________________________________________ • _____________________________________________ • _____________________________________________ Were any of your “stronger matches” (colored in Orange) a job you might be interested in? YES / NO Write 3 jobs you are interested in that matched your interest areas: • ______________________________________________ • ______________________________________________ • ______________________________________________ Record 3 additional jobs you may be interested in: • ______________________________________________ • ______________________________________________ • ______________________________________________ What do these 6 jobs have in common? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Click on one of your favorite careers. Watch the movie and write one or two sentences about your favorite career. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Look at the “SKILLS” section. • What skills do you already possess? ___________________________________________________________________ • What skills do you feel you need to work on? ___________________________________________________________________ • How can you work to acquire those skills? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Look under the “Industry Sectors” link to search occupations by career cluster or click “Search Occupations” to type in a career you are interested in. Write about your findings: ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

  9. Sixth Grade Lessons Lesson 3: Career Trading Cards

  10. Career Trading Cards Create Career Trading Cards based on career interest and recorded career on Resume’ • Pair and Share • Shuffle Craze • What’s my career? • Cluster Connection • Skill Mobile

  11. Seventh Grade Lessons Lesson 1: Career Clusters Interest Survey with Cluster Exploration

  12. Career Clusters Interest Survey http://www.careerclusters.org/resources/ccinterestsurvey/InterestSurvey.pdf Source: Adapted from the Guidance Division Survey, Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education (2005) Portion of Career Clusters Interest Survey Box 1 options depict “Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources” cluster.

  13. Seventh Grade Lessons Lesson 2: Drive of Your Life

  14. Name: ____________________________ • Date: ____________________________ Team/Grade: ___________ • Write your username and password for Drive For Your Life: • Username: ________________________________ • Password: ________________________________ • What are your TOP THREE personality scores from your style profile? • _________________________________________________________ • _________________________________________________________ • _________________________________________________________ • What are the FIVE careers you selected? • _________________________________________________________ • _________________________________________________________ • _________________________________________________________ • _________________________________________________________ • _________________________________________________________ • Career Fast Fact about Career 1_________________________: • __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ • Helpful High School Course with Career 2_________________________: • __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ • Necessary Skill you may need in Career 3 ________________________: • __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ • Annual Wage for Career 4 _________________________: • __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ • Typical Task Performed in Career 5 __________________________: • __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ www.driveofyourlife.org

  15. Seventh Grade Lessons Lesson 3: Career Trading Cards and Update Resume’

  16. Eighth Grade Lessons Activity 1: College Colors Day

  17. Eighth Grade Lessons Lesson 1: LAePortal Registration and Website Exploration

  18. Access LaEPortal site: laeportal.com Click “Create an Account” (Upper, left hand side) Click “K-12 Students” Click “Register without Verify” (blue link at bottom of screen) Click letter “N” and find “Northwestern Middle School” Enter Personal Information including: Salutation, 1st name, Last name, Gender, Grade, Username (Student login without .s), Password (Student password), and Security Question/Answer Wait for Site administrator (Counselor: Ms. Doucet) to approve your status.

  19. Eighth Grade Lessons Lesson 2: Explain Explore Academic and Career Results

  20. Explore Test: http://www.act.org/explore/Sample Student Document: http://www.act.org/explore/pdf/SampleScoreRpt.pdf

  21. Eighth Grade Lessons Activity 2: Student and Parent Meeting

  22. NORTHWESTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL Using the EXPLORE Test and Other Tools on the Journey to College and Career November 10, 2009 -- Agenda

  23. Eighth Grade Lessons Lesson 3: JTCC Research utilizing the Internet

  24. 8th grade JTCC Research Use your EXPLORE test results for the following questions. • The 3 career clusters the EXPLORE test showed I may have an interest in include: • _______________________________________________________________ • _______________________________________________________________ • _______________________________________________________________ • The 3 career clusters I AM MOST INTERESTED in are: • _______________________________________________________________ • _______________________________________________________________ • _______________________________________________________________ • Did the career clusters you are interested in match any of the career clusters given through the EXPLORE results? _____________________ Sign in on LAePortal (laeportal.com), click Career One, click Career Tube for the next three questions. • Select the career cluster you feel you are MOST INTERESTED in and WATCH that career cluster video. • What career cluster video did you watch? ___________________________________________ • Write at least one sentence about what you learned in the video. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Go to the ACT’s Explore website: http://www.actstudent.org/explore/, Click on “Follow the World-of-Work Map to Your Future” • Find the career cluster you just watched a video on. Click on top of that CLUSTER’S NAME. Then click on ONE OF THE CAREERS related to that area. Next, pick an OCCUPATION. • What occupation did you select? __________________________________________________ • State two WORK TASKS related to this career: • ______________________________________________________________________ • ______________________________________________________________________ • What is the average annual salary? _________________________’ • What are some related majors? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ How does this information relate to choosing electives at the high school?______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Go to California’s Career Zone Reality Check website: http://www.californiarealitycheck.com/ , click on “Flash Version.” Click on “Get a Reality Check,” Select “Bakersfield.” • In two to three sentences, write about your findings after participating in “Get a Reality Check.” ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

  25. Eighth Grade Lessons Lesson 4: ZHS visits NMS

  26. College and Career Craze Around NMS • Self-Contained Eighth Grade Applications and Work Permits • Selected females from 6th-8th grade participated in “Girls in Engineering Festival” • Updated Counseling Moodle Page with Career and College Exploration links • Innovative Career Lessons in the Classroom • College and Career Geared Courses: • English I, Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II, French I, Spanish I • College and Career Geared Electives: • Odyssey of the Mind, Robotics I & II, Forensics • College and Career Geared Clubs: • 4-H, Big Braves, Career Maze, Cooking Buddies, Fanatic Club, Future Nurses, Health Occupations Club, Junior Achievement, and Physics Club

  27. Additional Resources • Premade Career Trading Cards: • http://iwin.iwd.state.ia.us/pubs/careers/careercards.pdf • Career and College Planning Resources: • http://www.khake.com/page51.html

  28. Zachary Community School District Journey to College and Career Presented by Tammy Wood The JTCC Comprehensive Plan High School Steps

  29. Zachary Community School District Journey to College and Career Presented by Bianca Brown, Counselor High School Steps The Plan in Action

  30. Cohesiveness within each grade level Counselors become more visible Resource to teachers and students Builds relationships and rapport Consistence with each grade level At least once a semester Needs Assessment in order to establish pertinent topics Counselor Classroom Visits

  31. “Crash Course” to inform students about pertinent post secondary information Refresher course conducted each year ZSY 101

  32. ZSY 101 Calendar of Events

  33. ZHS Counselors’ Corner and Senior Moodle Page Interactive Vital Communication

  34. Systematic We encourage students to start testing during their junior year We recruit and encourage at-risk and low-income students to take the ACT ACT

  35. Prior to ACT, ZCSD offers ACT workshops Free to ZHS students Workshop sessions offered in each area tested on the ACT Material presented by highly qualified teachers ACT Workshops

  36. Involves effort from all stakeholders Most test have follow-up meetings for the interpretation of scores to students and parents Testing

  37. 40 + representatives from colleges, universities, and the armed forces 300 + students and parents attend XAVIER ITT ITI LSU SUBR SELU LOYOLA UNO SUNO MCNEESE ZCSD Annual College Fair

  38. Post secondary oriented Our intent is to accomplish a goal: Thinking POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION Visit state colleges, universities, vocational, and technical schools Campus Visits

  39. Colleges come to ZHS Benefits a selected group of students Representatives give a 30-minute presentation on collegiate information “Meet and Eat” with college representatives during their lunch College Recruiting at Zachary High School

  40. Spring Semester School-wide Involves each teacher inviting a guest to speak about a specific career Students are exposed to multiple careers Career Day

  41. Scholastic Research Program Areas of Science, Technology, Math, and Engineering ZHS recruits students in the areas of Physics and Calculus for LA-STEM Inclusive LA-STEM @ LSU

  42. Established to introduce females to the engineering profession Rebuild pride and understanding about the engineering profession Students learned why engineering is a viable career, observe projects created by The Shaw Group, and took part in fun, competitive activities  ZHS @ SHAW Engineering Day

  43. Gives parents an extensive overview of financial aid, scholarships, and the FAFSA application Follow-Up meeting in January for FAFSA and College BOWL Sunday Senior Parent Night with LOSFA

  44. College Showcase School-wide Email “Lunch on Us” What’s Coming Up

  45. Zachary Community School District Journey to College and Career Presented by Kelly Hinote Implementation at Zachary High School Junior Journey to College and Career Senior Summer: Seize the Day!

  46. Piloting a Program Junior Journey to College and Career • Flexible program designed for Juniors to explore college and career options using web-based resources, computer lab activities, and worksheets. • The Web-based Resources curriculum was designed and compiled in response to the need of a comprehensive and systemic program in assisting students towards college and career. The program makes use of quality resources available online and to the public.

  47. Junior Journey to College and Career Web-based Resources Curriculum Synopsis • College Comparison • College Comparison Worksheet • Budget and Finance for College • Financial Literacy • Budget Worksheet • Financial Aid and Scholarships • FAFSA • LA ePortal • TOPS Checklist • Sallie Mae Scholarship Search • Scholarship Database • Institution Scholarships • General Student Goals and Requirements • JTCC Grade-level Checklists • Student Background Worksheet • Student Interests • O*NET Interest Profiler • Occupation and Career Exploration • Occupation Descriptions • Occupation Exploration Worksheet • Career Comparison Discussion • College/Training Search • Career One Stop • Degree and Institution Worksheet

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