Career Action Planning Best Practices

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Career Action PlanningBest Practices

• Module 3
• Career Development Activities

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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

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Assessing The Whole Person
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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 years 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.

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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

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Registration Day

• Students and parents attend a 15 to 20 minute
  meeting with the students advisor.
• Students, parents and advisors review
  transcripts, grade point averages and make
  selections for next years classes based on the
  credit sheet.
• Attendance
• 1st year 94
• Past 2 years 98.5

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Carl Perkins Activities for CTE Students

• Improve Graduation / Completion Rates
• Improve Non-traditional Placement
• Improve Placement after Graduation
• Includes
• Professional Development
• Portfolio Folders
• Technology
• Articulation
• Motivation (Speakers

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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.

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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.

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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.

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WorkKeys Identifies Skill Gaps

• By comparing the job profile and individual
  assessment results, skills gaps can be identified

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Skills Gap
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Individual Results
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Job Profile
Applied Mathematics
Reading for Information
Locating Information
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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.

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WorkKeys is a System
Job Profiling to match applicants with jobs
Skill Assessments Measures an individuals skill
level
Career Guidance
Education/ Training Efficiently closes skill gaps
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ArkansasAtWork.orgArkansas Career Readiness
Certificate

• Governors 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

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Kuder

• http//arworks.arkansas.gov/Pages/default.aspx
• http//www.arworkscareer.com/
• Access for Navigator and Journey

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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
  Plans (April 5th)

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Support Programs

• 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

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Samples of Activities

• Academics
• 4 year plans
• graduation requirements
• transcript studies
• grade point averages
• course grids
• graduating with honors
• importance of testing
• financial aide
• credit recovery
• study skills

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Samples

• Careers
• interest inventories Kuder
• class selection based on career clusters
• post-secondary options
• career portfolio
• c t pathways of study

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More Samples

• Social
• attendance
• club days
• whom to see
• character ed.
• credit cards
• drug usage
• conflict resolution

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Senior Seminar Post-Secondary Planning Guide

• 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

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Senior Seminar

• Transcript package
• Recommendation letters
• College essays
• Financial aide
• Monthly newsletters
• Checklist

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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.

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Activities based on ASCA Guidance Model

• Academic
• Career
• Personal

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Career Guidance Activities

• Guidance lessons
• Individual advising
• Goal setting
• Relationship building