Tracy Peed and Meghan Wignall

● 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

Why infuse Career Education into your classroom?

—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. ArticleArticle — —— Focus: “How can we successfully meet the challenge of preparing young people for the 21 st century?” “How might education development meaningful career training as a part of comprehensive school reform?

—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

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

— It is projected that the U.S. economy will create some 47 million job openings over the 10-year period ending in 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!!!!!

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 work 2. Financial pressures 3. Can’t see the connection between their program of study and opportunities in the labor market

—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

We need your help - Especially CTE and Elective teachers! Linking School Subjects to Career & College Readiness

How to infuse career exploration into your classroom

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 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 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 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.

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 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 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.

Students paint a caricature of a famous person they admire.

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 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 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 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

Power to Learn - career lessons for all grade levels Career Jeopardy Games - SmartBoard games organized by Career Cluster and grade level Kids.gov - resources organized by subject (grades 6-8) Career Exploration by Mr. B My World of Work - based in Scotland, but has excellent content about subject areas Cybrary Man - tons of great content, not organized the best

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