Warm Up: Your 10 Year Plan Answer in complete sentences. How are you prepared for your future education? Describe the steps you will take to achieve your desired career. Name a few of your lifestyle plans for a career within your interest area?

Your Action Plan for the Next 10 Years Objective: The students prepare education, career, and lifestyle plans for a career within their interest areas. The complete plans will cover at least 10 years.

Your 10 Year Plan Where Do You Want to go From Here? Writing Your 10-year Plan

Your 10 Year Plan Getting the Education or Training you need. Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At home a friend, abroad an introduction, in solitude a solace, and in society an ornament. It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives, at once, grace and government to genius. - Joseph Addison

Your 10 Year Plan Education Options: Community or Junior College Four-Year Colleges and Universities Public and Private Vocational Schools Apprenticeships On-the-Job Training Military

Your 10 Year Action Plan: Activity 278-280 Creating your education and training 10 year plan. What training, classes and grades do you need to maintain throughout the your education? How old will you be in 10 years? What do you think you’ll look like? How do you want to feel about yourself and about your life? Review Activity 271 (not finished? Do it now!) Complete Activity 278, 279, 280.

Your Final Portfolio Project Student Assignment As a final project (30% of your grade) you will create a Career Portfolio.  This document will allow you to display your best work and accomplishments.  Future employers, college admissions staff, and scholarship providers will use your completed portfolio to measure your academic ability, maturity, and job readiness.  Your portfolio will be a useful tool when participating in interviews for future employment or acceptance into a college. You may wonder what a portfolio is meant to contain.  In creating your portfolio you need to consider how you can show yourself in the most positive light, illustrating your values, skills, strengths, and accomplishments. Below you will find a list of items you need to include in your portfolio: I. Personal Evaluation Typed Goals Essay (Activity 186) Personal Profile Chart* (Activity 27)  II. Career Preparation Typed Letter of Introduction (Activity 253) Typed Resume (Activity 253) Typed Job Application Questions* (Activity 257) Typed Interview Questions and Responses (Activity 259)  III. Your Professional Development Plan Education and Training 10 Year Plan* (Activity 271) Your My10yearPlan Summary* (www.My10yearPlan.com)  IV. Sample of Work and Achievements Career Poster, Personal Profile Collage Certificate of Achievement (may be a photocopy)  V. Recommendations Over the next four years you should add assignments that you are proud of, awards you receive, and letters of recommendations from people who can testify to your strong character. A Career Portfolio is a document that must be updated and changed as you accomplish new goals and gain vital life experiences.  * Assignments will be printed from www.my10yearplan.com