Career Action Planning
Best Practices
Module 3
Career Development Activities
How to Engage Students in School
• Make school more relevant and engaging and
enhance the connection between school and work
• Improve instruction and access to supports for
struggling students
• More supervision and discipline in school is
necessary
• Ensure strong adult-student relationships in the
school. The respondents craved and appreciated
attention from teachers…
Assessing The Whole Person
Pre-Registration Activities
• Through junior high science classes, the high school
counselors explain the high school course description
booklet.
• Junior High counselor speak to the middle school students.
• High school counselors meet with the tenth and eleventh
grade student either in small groups or individually about
next year’s course selection.
• Career ant Tech coordinator and teachers review transcripts
and send letters to students on the courses they need to be
a completer in the 14 career pathways Lake Hamilton offers.
Pre-Registration
• Advisor receives a copy of students’ transcripts and
credit sheets.
• The credit sheet will have notes for the student and
parents. (sample in packet)
• Letters are sent to parents one month prior to
registration day with time and date of their CAPS
appointment
Registration Day
• Students and parents attend a 15 to 20 minute
meeting with the student’s advisor.
• Students, parents and advisors review transcripts,
grade point averages and make selections for next
year’s classes based on the credit sheet.
• Attendance
– 1st year 94%
– Past 2 years 98.5%
Carl Perkins Activities for
CTE Students
• Improve Graduation / Completion Rates
• Improve Non-traditional Placement
• Improve Placement after Graduation
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Professional Development
Portfolio Folders
Technology
Articulation
Motivation (Speakers
KeyTrain in Secondary Schools
• Students in Workplace Readiness will be required to
use KeyTrain to prepare for the ACT WorkKeys
Assessments.
• Internship will allow students to use KeyTrain in
schools where Workplace Readiness is not being
offered.
WorkKeys Implementation
• Dept of Workforce Services contracted with
Thinking Media to provide KeyTrain to dislocated
workers and high school students in grades 11 and
12.
• ACT WorkKeys assessments were purchased to
provide job seekers with the CRC credential.
Where do students begin?
• Assess current knowledge with KeyTrain pretests
• Identify occupational needs for career goal
• Assign KeyTrain lessons at pretest level so students
can work at their own pace to the level they need to
achieve
• Bridge the gap between being unemployable and
being hirable.
WorkKeys Identifies Skill Gaps
By comparing the job profile and individual
assessment results, skills gaps can be identified
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Applied
Mathematics
Skills Gap
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Reading for
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Skills Gap
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Individual Results
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Job Profile
Locating
Information
Job Seekers
• Must score at least a level 4 on the KeyTrain in Reading
for Information, Applied Mathematics, and Locating
Information.
• Must also register with the Arkansas Job Links
• Instructor refers KeyTrain completers to a two-year
community college for the WorkKeys assessment
• Career Readiness Certificates are then awarded to
students receiving the Bronze, Silver or Gold Certificate.
WorkKeys is a System
Job Profiling:
to match
applicants with
jobs
Career
Guidance
Education/
Training:
Efficiently
closes
skill gaps
Skill Assessments:
Measures an
individual’s
skill level
ArkansasAtWork.org
Arkansas Career Readiness Certificate
Governor’s Initiative Video Spot
http://www.state.ar.us/esd/Programs/CRC/Video.htm
Radio Spot
• http://www.state.ar.us/esd/Programs/CRC/Radio.htm
• “We must have a career ready workforce”
– Governor Mike Beebe
Kuder
• http://arworks.arkansas.gov/Pages/default.aspx
• http://www.arworkscareer.com/
• Access for Navigator and Journey
Navigator Components
• 104 Sample Plans for each Career Cluster Pathway
(New Feb 22nd)
• Individualized electronic 4-year plans (Feb 22)
• Explore and Plan results uploaded to student
• Link to College
• Connect to Business w/E-Portfolios
• Needs assessment, Setting goals, Postsecondary
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Plans (April 5 )
Support Programs
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Career Fairs
Mentoring Program
Watch Dog Dads
Kuder Planning System
Post-Secondary Education Faculty
Discover Arkansas
Community Speakers
Classroom Activities and Assignments
Drop-out Counselor
Second Chance Program
Samples of Activities
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4 year plans
graduation requirements
transcript studies
grade point averages
course grids
graduating with honors
importance of testing
financial aide
credit recovery
study skills
Samples
• Careers
– interest inventories “Kuder”
– class selection based on career clusters
– post-secondary options
– career portfolio
– c & t pathways of study
More Samples
• Social
– attendance
– club days
– whom to see
– character ed.
– credit cards
– drug usage
– conflict resolution
Senior Seminar Post-Secondary Planning
Guide
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What to consider when choosing a school
Admission policies
Visiting a campus and when
Possible questions for interviews
Info for students with learning disabilities.
Info for student athletes
Computer searches
SAT/ACT/AP/CLEP
Senior Seminar
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Transcript package
Recommendation letters
College essays
Financial aide
Monthly newsletters
Checklist
Senior Seminar
As a senior counselor, I meet with everyone of my seniors to
verify what courses where required for them to graduate.
I sent a letters to parents on what courses their child needed
for graduation.
Within the first two week of school, the seniors and their
parents knew the courses the student needed for
graduation to eliminate any surprises at the end of the
semester.
Activities based on ASCA Guidance Model
• Academic
• Career
• Personal
Career Guidance Activities
• Guidance lessons
• Individual advising
• Goal setting
• Relationship building