LINKS Student Advisement Program – Career Cruising Integration for 11th Grade Curriculum
Lesson
#
Topic
First Quarter
11.1
Orientation to
Junior Year
Objective
#
AAPSD.11.7.02
11.2
Credits/
AAA.11.2.01
Graduation
Checklist Junior
Checklist WV ED
planner, school
specific
11.3
Interpretation of AAA.11.1.11
test results/
WESTEST,
Writing
Assessment
Study Skills
AAA.11.1.06
Assessment/Plan
Support Services
11.4
11.5
Reading for
Comprehension
AAA.11.1.07
11.6
ACT/SAT prep
Chicago Roads
to Success
How to prepare
for college visits
questions/
documentation
AAA.11.1.08
Time
Management
AAA.11.1.09
11.7
11.8
AAA.11.2.03
Goals/Objectives
• Build upon activities and
experiences that help the
individual student become a
contributing member of a
global community
• Discuss annually the
current relationship
between flexible career
plans, post-secondary
goals, four-year high school
course plans, report card
grades, standardized test
scores, and academic
improvement plans, and
revise each as appropriate
• Analyze their most recent
standardized test results to
identify strengths and
challenges
• Consistently utilize
educational skills necessary
to progress toward
individual life-long learning
goals
• Develop strategies to
improve reading
comprehension
• Learn and utiIize required
skills to improve
standardized testing results
• Develop a post-secondary
transition plan (e.g.,
campus exploration,
admission, applications,
financial aid to be sought)
• Analyze their time-use and
time-wasters and apply
time management and
tasking skills
Career Cruising Suggested
Activity for Advisors
• Pass out Career Cruising access
cards with school and Portfolio
login information and encourage
students to log in and explore
the program on their own
throughout the year
Career Cruising Suggested
Activity for Students
• If the school has not set
usernames and passwords for
students, ask students without
an existing Portfolio to create a
new account (See Portfolio
Activity #1 – Creating Your
Personal Portfolio)
• Update other assessment results
in the Portfolio
• Add links and contact
information for support services
to student Portfolios through
CAMS
• Review Career & Life Goals in
the Portfolio and enter reflections
• Complete Activity #12 – Finding
the Right College
• Browse school profiles to
prepare questions about
programs and school features of
interest for college visits
11.9
Scholarship
AAC.11.5.01
Search RTS WV
ED planner,
parent handbook
• Describe how to find and
apply for need-based
financial aid
11.10
Today not
Tomorrow
• Describe the obligations
young adults have to their
family, community and
society
11.11
Optional
Second Quarter
11.12 Rights and
Responsibilities
AAPSD.11.7
• View the Portfolio Completion
Status by Student Report to
identify students that may need
additional help completing their
Portfolios
AAPSD.11.7.04
Communication
Feelings
11.14
Update Resume-- AAC.11.4.05
Chicago
11.15
Resources for
finding
employment,
volunteer
opportunities,
internship
Completing Job
Application
AAC.11.2.05
AAC.11.6.01
• Utilize learned skills to
complete a job application.
Interview Skills
AAC.11.5.03
• Practice appropriate
speaking, listening and
interviewing skills
11.17
AAPSD.11.9.02
• Describe the unique rights
and responsibilities
students have as young
adults
• Identify appropriate ways to
communicate their personal
feelings
11.13
11.16
• Use the Financial Aid Selector to
find scholarships
• Fill in the Financial Plans portion
of the Post-Secondary Education
Plan
• Revise their post-secondary
education goals as
appropriate to reflect
changes in their career
plans
• Evaluate and revise an
educational plan for lifelong learning
• Record notes from advisement
meetings and ISTP meeting in
students’ advisement logs
(schedule accordingly)
• Enter/revise Grade 12 courses in
the Education Plan in
preparation for ISTP meeting
(schedule accordingly) (See
Portfolio Activity #5 – High
School Education Plan)
• Verify course selections in
conjunction with college
admissions requirements
• Use the Resume Builder to
create or revise their resume
(See Portfolio Activity #9 – Using
the Resume Builder)
• Add special contacts and links to
relevant organizations to student
Portfolios through CAMS
• Review students’ courses in
Education Plans to prepare for
ISTP meetings (schedule
accordingly) (Note – Education
Plans can be mass printed)
Workplace
Behavior
Life Plan--Getting AAC.11.5.03
to Retirement
• Demonstrate appropriate
behavior on the job
• Utilize a variety of
resources to aid in career
exploration and planning
11.20
Update Career
Interest
Inventory/Career
Plan
AAC.11.4.06
• Re-examine their career
interests annually based on
their experiences and/or an
updated career interest
survey
11.21
Creating winning
essays
AAA.11.2.02
• Identify and utilize a variety
of writing strategies to
communicate career
readiness
11.22
Optional
11.18
11.19
Third Quarter
11.23 Stress
Management
Fun I'm in a
hurry to get
things done
• Record Career Planning
Activities in the Portfolio (See
Portfolio Activity #6 – Career
Preparation & Planning)
• Explore career profile Other
Resources for more information
on careers of interest, including
BLS profiles, associations, etc.
• Re-take the Career Matchmaker
Interest Assessment (See
Classroom Activity #3 – Using
Career Matchmaker) and save
assessment results to the
Portfolio
• Explore career profiles and save
three Careers of Interest to
Portfolio (See Portfolio Activity
#3 – Careers that Interest Me)
• Review and revise top two
career clusters saved in the
Portfolio
• View the Careers of Interest
Report for your students
• View the Portfolio Completion
Status by Student Report to
identify students that may need
additional help completing their
Portfolios
AAPSD.11.9.01
• Student will identify
stressors common to young
adults and describe
appropriate stress
management techniques
• Record notes from advisement
meetings in students’
advisement logs (schedule
accordingly)
11.24
Transcript
portfolio update/
Graduation
checklist/draft
senior schedule
AAA.11.2.01
11.25
Designing a
Senior Project
AAA.11.1.04
11.26
Relating School
to Career
AAC.11.4.02
11.27
Review for
AAC.11.4.02
WESTEST 2
Online Writing
Assessment
Personal/Group AAA.11.2.02
responsibility;
cooperative
groups
Personal Finance AAA.11.1.02
/Budgeting
11.28
11.29
11.30
11.31
11.32
Lifestyles/Career/ AAP/S .0.11.2
Educational
Obtainment
Dealing with
AAC.11.4.03
Diversity/Global
Awareness
Prejudice/
Discrimination
Peanut Activity
AAPSD.11.7.01
• Discuss annually the
current relationship
between flexible career
plans, post-secondary
goals, four-year high school
course plans, report card
grades, standardized test
scores, and academic
improvement plans, and
revise each as appropriate
• Develop a plan for
completing a researchbased project
• Analyze the education,
training, and personal
characteristics needed to
achieve current life career
goals and compare those
characteristics with one's
own characteristics
• Analyze and evaluate
school and community
contributions as they relate
to life career goals
• Analyze and evaluate
school and community
contributions as they relate
to life career goals
• Student will address
specific writing purposes to
create a well-developed
composition from a prompt
• Demonstrate the ability to
work independently and
cooperatively with other
students
• Understand how values and
personal needs affect
career choice
• Understand how lifestyle
values affect career choice
and educational obtainment
• Develop respect for
diversity and increase
acceptance of differences
• Complete Classroom Activity #1
– School Subjects & Careers to
learn about the educational
requirements of a career of
interest
• Update Extracurricular Activities
and Volunteer Experience in the
Portfolio (See Portfolio Activity
#8 – Work & Volunteer
Experiences)
11.33
Optional
Fourth Quarter
11.34 Almost Seniors-Am I ready?
Chicago
11.35
AAA.11.1.02
• Demonstrate the ability to
work independently and
cooperatively with other
students
• View the Portfolio Completion
Status by Student Report to
identify students that may need
additional help completing their
Portfolios
AAA.11.1.01
• Make annual revisions as
appropriate to their
academic improvement
plan based on the most
recent classroom work,
high school grades,
standardized test scores,
teacher comments, and life
experiences
• Develop a post-secondary
transition plan (e.g.,
campus exploration,
admissions, applications,
financial aid to be sought)
• Analyze their workforce
readiness in terms of their
self-management skills
• Record notes from advisement
meetings in students’
advisement logs (schedule
accordingly)
AAA.11.2.03
11.36
Job Readiness
Chicago
11.37
Thinking Like a
Genius
AAA.11.1.04
11.38
WESTEST Prep
AAA.11.1.08
11.39
Education after
HS--RTS
Evaluating
Programs
AAA.11.2
• Demonstrate the ability to
use a variety of thinking
and effective and innovative
learning strategies
• Learn and utilize required
skills to improve
standardized testing results
• Complete school with the
academic rigor and
preparation essential to
choose from a wide range
of substantial postsecondary options,
including college
• Develop and monitor
personal education plans
• Update and revise Portfolios with
the latest assessment results,
grades, etc.
• Review and finalize the PostSecondary Plan
• View the Portfolio Report: PostSecondary Education Plan
• Complete or update the My Skills
Assessment (See Classroom
Activity #11 – Using My Skills)
and save assessment results to
the Portfolio
• Update Skills & Abilities in the
Portfolio and take note of areas
to work on
• Complete the School Selector
and save the results to the
Portfolio
11.40
Education after
HS--RTS
Choosing a
College
AAA.0.11.2
11.41
Education after
HS--RTS
College
Research I
AAA.0.11.2
11.42
Education after
HS--RTS
College
Research II
AAA.0.11.2
11.43
Education after
HS--RTS
College
Research III
AAA.0.11.2
11.44
Evaluating Junior
Year
• Complete school with the
academic rigor and
preparation essential to
choose from a wide range
of substantial postsecondary options,
including college
• Develop and monitor
personal education plans
• Complete school with the
academic rigor and
preparation essential to
choose from a wide range
of substantial postsecondary options,
including college
• Develop and monitor
personal education plans
• Complete school with the
academic rigor and
preparation essential to
choose from a wide range
of substantial postsecondary options,
including college
• Develop and monitor
personal education plans
• Complete school with the
academic rigor and
preparation essential to
choose from a wide range
of substantial postsecondary options,
including college
• Develop and monitor
personal education plans
• Share feelings, insights,
successes, and challenges
of LINKS Program and
Junior Year
• Complete Activity #12 – College
Research Exercise
• Review and finalize top three
schools of interest in the Portfolio
(See Portfolio Activity #4 –
Schools that Interest Me)
• View the Portfolio Report:
Schools of Interest
• View Portfolio Completion Status
by Student Report to check that
Portfolios are complete
• Record notes from final
advisement meetings in
students’ advisement logs
(schedule accordingly)
• Revise Portfolio and update
goals, assessment results,
awards & certificates and other
sections that have changed over
the course of the year!
• Check that they have met the
Portfolio Completion Standards
for the year