CAREER ACTION PLANNING CAPS

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CAREER ACTION PLANNINGCAPS

• Office of Career Guidance, Exploration, and
  Preparation
• Ray Henson, Program Manager
• raymond.henson_at_arkansas.gov
• Barbara Lensing, Program Advisor
• barbara.lensing_at_arkansas.gov
• 501-682-1616

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WHAT IS CAP? Career Action Planning

• A cooperative way to educate students to make
  plans for their future and prepare themselves to
  meet those goals.
• Provides education and career planning for all
  students with parental involvement.
• Provides opportunities for students to focus on
  personal education plans and career goals.
• Provides a comprehensive plan to provide students
  with decision-making skills and information to
  make decisions about their education and career.
• Provides a process to help students improve their
  chances for long-term employment.
• Provides an advisor to every student with time to
  devote to making concrete plans.

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A CAPS PROGRAM

• Establishes written goals a plan of study for
  each student
• Records each students growth in achieving the
  education/skills needed to succeed
• Provides follow-up and evaluation for parents and
  students
• Informs students of job availability, job duties
  responsibilities, education and training
  required, pay growth potential, availability of
  secondary and post- secondary
  education/training.

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WHY SHOULD WE HAVE CAP?

• Organizes career development into a manageable
  time frame and team effort.
• Ensures consistent curriculum exposure to all
  students.
• Provides opportunity for shared responsibility
  for personal education and career development by
  including parents, students, teachers, and
  counselors.
• Enables students to gain skills and background
  necessary to make good educational and career
  decisions.
• Increases students choices and access to jobs
  and postsecondary education through adequate
  knowledge and option awareness.
• Encourages students to set educational goals and
  construct a plan to meet those goals.
• Improves relations between school faculty,
  parents, business, industry, and other community
  members.

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WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF A CAP PROGRAM?

• ADMINISTRATION BENEFITS
• Provides better image/public relations for the
  school
• Helps with scheduling
• Facilitates school start and better communication
  between teachers, counselors, and parents
• Allows schedule to be built around firm data from
  pre-enrollment
• Can be implemented with little or no money for
  sustainability

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Benefits

• Creates a flexible system that allows for
  updating and adjusting the plan on a regular
  basis.
• Improves self-management and self-esteem of
  students.
• Improves the academic performance of each
  student.

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TEACHER BENEFITS

• Reduces scheduling changes
• Provides more appropriate placement
• Makes class selection more relevant
• Encourages a more personal relationship with
  students
• Allows broader understanding of the total
  curriculum
• Allows broader knowledge of graduation
  requirements

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COUNSELOR BENEFITS

• Shortens time spent on paperwork
• Cuts down on number of schedule changes
• Allows more time with students and guidance
  program
• Organizes career development into a manageable
  time frame
• Improves teacher knowledge of all programs
  available to students to quickly answer student
  questions

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STUDENT BENEFITS

• Allows students to be active players in their own
  career planning
• Teaches responsibility for own career plan and
  educational goals
• Increases awareness of career and educational
  opportunities
• Provides better access to counselors and teacher
  advisors
• Builds personal relationship with advisor

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PARENT BENEFITS

• Increases involvement in childs educational and
  career planning
• Promotes positive interaction with school staff
  and faculty
• Increases understanding of child through
  interests surveys, aptitude assessments, and
  criterion testing
• Increases knowledge of school and school system
• Increases knowledge of different options for
  students education with programs of study in
  career and technical education and college
  preparation

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COMMUNITY/EMPLOYER BENEFITS

• Provides better prepared workforce
• Improves graduation rates with meaningful
  education
• Provides better placement of graduates
• Improves relationship between community/employer
  and school
• Builds awareness of career opportunities within
  the community

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ITS THE LAW!

• Federally funded programs are required to provide
• a coherent sequence of courses to ensure
  learning in the core academic, and vocational and
  technical subjects (H.R. 1853-40)

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ITS THE LAW!

• To meet ADE standards, every student must have a
  four-year plan.
• To meet ADWE standards for program approval,
  every student must have a four-year plan
  (recommended six-year), which is revisited each
  year for necessary adjustments.
• To meet the requirements of ACT 1949, every
  student services program must include career
  advisement and a career development process.

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CAPS MISSION
To ensure that each student receives
individualized, comprehensive, and continuing
career and educational counseling that enhances
their ability to ultimately achieve career
satisfaction.
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Career Action Planning
Career Orientation 8th grade
Keystone 9th grade
Workforce Technology 10th-12th grade
Career Focus
Workplace Readiness 11th-12th grade
Career Cluster Senior Seminar 12th grade
Internship 11th-12th grade
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COMPONENTS OF A CAP PROGRAM

• Planning
• Calendar
• Curriculum
• Advisor Periods

• Teacher Training
• CAP Conferences
• Marketing
• Evaluation

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COMPONENTS OF A CAP

• A 4-6 Year Education Plan
• Career Plan (Career Ladder)
• Academic Assessments
• Self-awareness Assessments
• Resume with
• Activities/Honors/Awards
• Skills/Certifications
• Work Experience
• References

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Components of Career Action Planning

• The components of a plan include self-awareness,
  assessments, high school planning, post-secondary
  planning, decision making, and career guidance.
• An important component is the annual
  parent/student/advisor conference to update the
  career portfolio and select classes for the next
  year.

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What everyone must know

• Graduation Requirements
• Smart Core/College requirements
• Scholarships available
• Programs of Study and courses offered
• POS Electives for Completer Status
• Post-secondary articulation agreements offered
• Job opportunities
• Advanced Placement Opportunities
• Special Needs Resources

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What Advisors Should Know

• How to use registration sheets
• How to use and record information in the
  students Career Portfolios
• Schedules and Deadlines
• A Calendar should be established prior to the
  beginning of the school year.

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Non-academics

• Clubs and Organizations.
• Athletics
• Non-school opportunities
• Internship/apprenticeship opportunities
• Credit and non-credit electives
• Programs of Study and Completer Status
• Military-Reserve Officer Training Core (JROTC)

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HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS

Smart Core 4 units English 4 units Math 3 units
Science 3 units Social Studies ½ unit Oral
Communications ½ unit Physical Education ½ unit
Health Safety ½ unit Fine Arts 6 units Career
Focus
Common Core 4 units English 4 units Math 3 units
Science 3 units Social Studies ½ unit Oral
Communications ½ unit Physical Education ½ unit
Health Safety ½ unit Fine Arts 6 units Career
Focus Equivalents may count
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Additional Options

• Secondary Area Vocational Training Centers

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Career Technical Education Completer Status

• Complete three Carnegie Units of Credit in a
  Program of Study
• Electives
• Workplace Readiness (.5 credit)
• Workforce Technology (1 credit)
• Internship (1 Credit)
• Senior Seminar (.5 Credit)

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Beginning a CAPS Program

• Administrative Decision
• Commitment
• Planning Committee
• Teacher/advisor training
• Curriculum design for Advisory class time

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Career Orientation

• Introduces students to the world of work and
  generally begins career awareness
• Assessments
• Kuder Assessments
• Career Cruising or other aptitude assessments
• ACT Explore Results
• Portfolio Folders
• Four-Year plan
• Six-year plan to include post-secondary
  education/training

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Career Student Portfolios

• Are personal individualized folders for each
  student
• Record students records, plans, and progress
• Reviewed up-dated each year
• Belong to the student and should be given to the
  student upon graduation or transfer

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It is recommended

• That Advisors work with fewer than 20 students
• That Advisors meet at least 8 times per year with
  their students
• That Advisors meet with all advisee parents at
  least once per year in the spring

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Conferences are held to meet with parents and
students to review

• Students records
• Goals and progress
• Education opportunities
• Career opportunities
• Four-year/six year education plan
• Scheduled courses and registration for the coming
  year

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FREE RESOURCES FOR CAPS

• Kuder Career Planning System
• Assessments
• Career Exploration
• Links to Sample Career/Educational Plans
• Electronic Portfolios
• College/Major Search
• Resume Builder
• Job Search

• Develop Your Future
• A complete curriculum for career development
  planning (Junior High or High School levels)
• Contact your local two-year college for
  information and assistance to use and obtain
  these resources.

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Kuder 4-year PlanningIn-service

• Arkansas Career Guidance Recipes for Success
  Conference, July 17, 2008 The Peabody Hotel,
  Little Rock
• ACTE Conference, August 4, 2008 The Hot Springs
  Convention Center, Hot Springs
• District training with Ruth Brown

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SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT

• What if career action planning were the norm,
  rather than the exception?
• Career planning is not something we do to
  students, but something we help them to learn to
  do for themselves.

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SAMPLE CAREER PLAN
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Perkins Activities for CAPS

• Future Focus from Career Training Concepts
• A Hero Within by Paul Vitali motivational
  speaker with curriculum
• Educating with Comics, Competitive Advantage
  Its For Real from Career Solutions
• CareerCruising.Com 4-year electronic planning

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Advisory Activities

• Student CAP Portfolio Folders
• Self-awareness Assessments
• Kuder assessments and planning
• Tiger Woods Foundation
• Start Something