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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Who they know and Admire *Who influenced you?

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

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.

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

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

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

A place to start… CAREER DAY June 15, 2010

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

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

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

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

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

Helping in Your Child’s Career Development