CAREER EDUCATION ACROSS THE CURRICULUM

Tracy Peed and Meghan Wignall

Agenda

● Why infuse Career Education into your classroom?

● Add the career component to what you’re already doing

● Summary of Career Cruising Features● Guided Tour of Career Cruising

● Work on a lesson that fits in your course

RELEVANCEWhy infuse Career

Education into your classroom?

Pathways to Prosperity�Published in February, 2011 through the Harvard Graduate School of Education

�William Symonds, project director collaborated with Robert B. Schwartz and Ronald Ferguson in writing the report. Article

���Focus:

“How can we successfully meet the challenge of preparing young people for the 21st century?”

“How might education development meaningful career training as a part of comprehensive school reform?

What’s in a Name

�How can educators, career and technical educators and school counselors face the dilemma of competing issues between career readiness and college readiness?

Postsecondary READINESS……not college admissions.

Career �� READINESS……not career preparedness.My course: Career Exploration & Post-Secondary Planning

D. Conley, College and Career Ready, 2010

Change How You Think

For too many of our youths, we have treated preparing for college vs. preparing for a career as mutually exclusive options.

What do Futurists Tell us?

�It is projected that the U.S. economy will create some 47 million job openings over the 10-year period ending in 2018. Nearly two-thirds of these jobs, it is estimated, will require that workers have at least some post-secondary education.

�Students need post-secondary education!!!!!

Why Are We Failing

Lack of Relevance�United States now has the highest college

drop-out rate in the industrialized world.�Students drop-out of college [dont’ consider post-secondary �

education] due to:1. Under-preparation for the academic work2. Financial pressures3. Can’t see the connection between their program of study and opportunities in the

labor market

Build Pathways with Intentionality

• �Its time to widen our lens and build a more finely articulated pathways

• �Build stronger connections between course content and careers

• �Overcome barriers including weak or nonexistent career counseling, rising college cost, inadequate financial aid, and the frequent need to balance courses with jobs that are often totally disconnected from a student’s programs of study

• Career knowledge & connectedness

NBHS Pathways

We need your help - Especially CTE and Elective teachers!

Linking School Subjects to Career & College Readiness

Student Planning & Pathways of Study

Student Planning & Pathways of Study

Student Planning & Pathways of Study

ADD THE CAREER COMPONENT

How to infuse career exploration into your classroom

Ideas to get you thinking...

What types of careers are related to your course?

• Students select a career to research that is related to your subject area/course

• Utilize Career Cruising and outside resources for research

• Students put together a presentation about the career they chose and present to the class

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RST.11-12.9 Synthesize information from a range of sources (e.g., texts, experiments, simulations) into a coherent understanding of a process, phenomenon, or concept, resolving conflicting information when possible.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RST.6-8.7 Integrate quantitative or technical information expressed in words in a text with a version of that information expressed visually (e.g., in a flowchart, diagram, model, graph, or table).

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RST.6-8.4 Determine the meaning of symbols, key terms, and other domain-specific words and phrases as they are used in a specific scientific or technical context

Career Cruising

allows students to

search careers that

are related to specific school

subjects.

Ideas to get you thinking...How can I use this project in the real world?

• Students create a project or assignment that is already part of your curriculum

• Ask students to research careers that utilize the work they have created

• Students write a report relating the project to a career

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RST.11-12.7 Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g., quantitative data, video, multimedia) in order to address a question or solve a problem.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RST.11-12.9 Synthesize information from a range of sources (e.g., texts, experiments, simulations) into a coherent understanding of a process, phenomenon, or concept, resolving conflicting information when possible.

Art Example

Students paint a caricature of a famous person they admire.

Ideas to get you thinking...Learn more about a career you already discuss

• Some careers are already discussed within your curriculum

• Utilize Career Cruising as another source of research

• Students relate course information to real world experience

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RST.11-12.7 Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g., quantitative data, video, multimedia) in order to address a question or solve a problem.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RST.11-12.9 Synthesize information from a range of sources (e.g., texts, experiments, simulations) into a coherent understanding of a process, phenomenon, or concept, resolving conflicting information when possible.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.7.9 Analyze how two or more authors writing about the same topic shape their presentations of key information by emphasizing different evidence or advancing different interpretations of facts.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RST.6-8.4 Determine the meaning of symbols, key terms, and other domain-specific words and phrases as they are used in a specific scientific or technical context

LinksSupplement Career Cruising

Power to Learn - career lessons for all grade levelshttp://www.powertolearn.com/teachers/lesson_activities/careers/index.shtmlCareer Jeopardy Games - SmartBoard games organized by Career Cluster and grade level http://pages.minot.k12.nd.us/votech/File/Jeopardy.htm Kids.gov - resources organized by subject (grades 6-8)http://kids.usa.gov/teens-home/index.html Career Exploration by Mr. Bhttp://breitlinks.com/careers/career_activities.htmMy World of Work - based in Scotland, but has excellent content about subject areas http://www.myworldofwork.co.uk/content/help-what-subjects-should-i-choose Cybrary Man - tons of great content, not organized the best http://www.cybraryman.com/

CAREER CRUISINGSummary of Features

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