My10yearPlan.com An Overview My10yearPlan.com Five Levels of Access ✓School Site Executive ✓Career Choices Teacher ✓Advisor/Counselor ✓General Teacher ✓Student School Site Executive • Each participating school selects a School Site Executive to: • • • • Coordinate and manage the website Set up accounts for teachers, advisors, & staff Manage the student seat licenses Troubleshoot and provide technical assistance to staff and students • Oversee security of the site and student accounts School Site Executive CC Teachers Students Advisors General Teachers Name, School ID, Grade, Username, Password, etc. Staff Account Set-Up • • Each school site executive may activate accounts for an unlimited number of Career Choices teachers, general teachers, and advisors. Career Choices teachers are allotted a portion of the student seat licenses. Student Account Set-Up • Then Career Choices teachers create accounts for their students limited by the quota set by their school site executive. • Student accounts can be created manually one at a time or created through an import function available to the school site executive. Pre-/Post-Survey • • • Career Choices teachers have the option to enable the online pre-course survey, which students take within the first week of class. The post-survey, re-taken at the end of the course, provides data to measure how the class influenced students’ attitudes about high school, post-secondary education, and their future career and lifestyle goals. These options are set when student accounts are initially created. The Workbook Data • Students will complete the entire Workbook in class, but they will only need to enter culminating information into My10yearPlan.com from: Pages 6, 11, 28, 42, 62, 68-73, 83, 109, 111-113, 116-118, and 121-124 Data Entry Options You can assign students to enter the data from their Workbook in a variety of ways: • Throughout the course as the Workbook is completed • All at once at the end of the course in 2 to 3 class sessions • As their take-home final, during the last two weeks of the course Entering Data is Easy • Students use the left-side navigation of their login to choose where to enter their data from the appropriate Workbook pages. • The “Edit Your Plan” sections match the headlines on the Workbook page. For Example: • By clicking on Envisioning Your Future, students go to the section where they enter their data from page 6 of their Workbook/Portfolio. Summary Page… A Snapshot of Dreams & Plans • In addition to the more detailed plans, very specific data is captured, summarized, and transferred to the student’s Summary page, which is viewable by all teachers and advisors with access to My10yearPlan.com. • This encapsulated version has been designed to be reviewed quickly in only a minute or two, providing a comprehensive snapshot of a student’s plans, goals, and dreams. Viewing Plan Summaries • The Summary Page provides a valuable tool so all teachers and counselors can provide quantitative and qualitative advisory support. • • • • Personalized Easy to use Readily available Dynamic for updating Email a Student • Student email addresses are not required, but if they are available, teachers and advisors can easily email their students with questions, reminders, or notes of encouragement. An Online Portfolio • Students will also use this online tool to store important pieces of their portfolios, including resumes and any other documents they will need to apply for jobs, scholarships, or college admittance. The Hardcopy Portfolio By following the directions on pages 125-126 of the Workbook/Portfolio, students can create their Career Portfolio Notebook by printing out their online activities. This notebook is ideal for: • College interviews • Job interviews • Career planning Show a Parent/Friend • • Parental support is important so students can send a copy of their plan summary to a friend or family member by going to Show a Friend/Parent in the top navigation of My10yearPlan.com. They can also use the Printer-Friendly Version tab to print a simple, clean copy of their summary or any of their completed activities. Resources • A variety of career and college research links are available to students in the Resources section of My10yearPlan.com. • These links can be used to access SAT info, search for colleges, and show students how much they can expect to earn in the occupations that interest them. Saving Their Portfolio Data • Because the development of a Career Portfolio is a lifelong effort, students will be able to download a read-only version of their plan and portfolio items before they graduate so that they can save their data on their own computer. Comprehensive Guidance According to recent studies, advisory programs and efforts that truly deliver on the promise of personalized education are among the most effective high school reform models. With My10yearPlan.com school-wide comprehensive guidance is now possible. Make Personalization Possible • My10yearPlan.com allows teachers, counselors, administrators, and parents to easily track and provide support for students' individualized, career-inclusive education plans. This is the gold-standard of personalization.