1. Making Career Connections
ITEST’s ultimate goal: Increase the number of students who choose IT careers

2. What works to get kids to focus on career information?
What strategies have worked within your STEM courses?

3. What works to get kids to focus on career information?
Does beginning or ending an analysis activity with the comment “some people do this for a living” stimulate interest?

4. What works to get kids to focus on career information?
How do kids respond to prompts such as “what kind of job do you think you could get if you were really good at this?”

5. What works to get kids to focus on career information?
Could you use the theme of “school is your job” to encourage students to build workplace skills?

6. What works to get kids to focus on career information?
Do activities that invoke role-playing work for students?
Would adding details and richness to the role-playing help students envision themselves in IT careers?

7. What works to get kids to focus on career information?
What resources or support have you found for raising career awareness?
Can counselors help?

8. What works to get kids to focus on career information?
What resources might we provide?
Speakers who lead students through some analysis activity
Career-based GIS activities

9. What works to get kids to focus on career information?
Are the Career Resources on the DataTools Website useful?
For you?
For kids?

10. What works to get kids to focus on career information?
By identifying best practices for getting kids thinking about careers, our project could make a contribution to the larger ITEST Program
Please pass on your ideas!