Middle School Career Exploration

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Middle School Career Exploration

• Career Clusters Institute, June 12, 2006
• Joan Fossum, Presenter

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Todays Session

• Initiatives that impact the work of Middle School
  Educators
• Why Career Exploration in the Middle School?
• Where does Career Exploration Happen?
• Tools and Resources for Career Exploration in
  Grades 5-8
• Questions/Thoughts about the Future

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Initiatives

• ESEA/No Child Left Behind
• Perkins/Career and Technical
• Workforce Development
• SpEd/IDEA
• Secondary School Redesign
• State Level-NH Follow the Child
• Local Level

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Why Career Exploration in the Middle School?

• Time of Self Discovery
• Helps students and parents understand the
  connections of academic and technical skills
• Help them identify their options
• Parent Involvement
• Self Advocacy
• And

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Where Career Exploration fits in the Process
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Where does Career Exploration Happen?

• Family and Consumer Sciences -Career Exploration
  Unit that provides the Foundation Workplace
  Skills and Interest Surveys-Grades 5-8
• All Curriculum Areas-Foundation Academic Skills
  and Career Research in Fields related to the area
• Guidance- Student Planning for Academic and
  Technical Skills -Grades 6-8

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Career Exploration happens at the Core Foundation
level
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How can Career Exploration Happen?

• Tools and Resources
• Career Clusters (NH Adaptations)
• National Career Development Guidelines
• Family and Consumer Sciences National Standards
• Nontraditional Careers

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• Career Cluster Tools Resources
• Career Cluster Interest Survey
• Career Cluster Poster
• Career Cluster Brochures-sample
• Career Cluster Plan of Study-sample
• NH Pathway Fact Sheets-sample
• NH Guidance grids-samples
• Websites
• Career Education Lesson Plans http//www.ed.state.
  nh.us/education/doe/organization/adultlearning/Car
  eer20Development/CareerClusters.htm
• www.careerclusters.org
• www.ed.state.nh.us/techprep
• www.careercruising.com
• www.access.bridges.com

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Career Clusters Overview

• What are Career Clusters?
• Cluster Titles
• Cluster Framework Model
• Format
• Career Cluster ATW Grid

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Career Clusters

• Represent a grouping of occupations and broad
  industries based on commonalities
• Provide an organizing tool for schools to offer
  broader, more durable educational opportunities
• Help develop workplace, academic and technical
  skills
• Build links to the community
• Add relevance to the curriculum
• Provide real-world learning opportunities
• Promote Connections El-MS-HS-PS

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16 National Career Clusters
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Career Cluster Framework Model

• Organizes the occupations, within each cluster,
  into pathways
• Cluster Level
• Represents the knowledge and skills that all
  student within the cluster should achieve
  regardless of their pathway
• Pathway Level
• Represents the knowledge and skills necessary to
  pursue a full range of career opportunities
  within a pathway-ranging from entry level to
  management technical to professional
• Career Specialties
• Represents the full range of career
  opportunities within each pathway

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Cluster Level KS Topics

• Academic Foundations
• Communications
• Problem Solving and Critical Thinking
• Information Technology Applications
• Systems
• Safety, Health and Environmental
• Leadership and Teamwork
• Ethics and Legal Responsibilities
• Employability and Career Development
• Technical Skills
• Bold print should be happening before the 9th
  grade.

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• Career Cluster Interest Survey
• Career Cluster Poster
• Career Cluster Brochures

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National Career Development Guidelines-Middle
Development Level Knowledge

• Domain 1 Personal Social Development
• Domain 2 Educational Achievement and
  Lifelong Learning
• Domain 3 Career Management
• www.acrnetwork.org/ncdg_framework.aspx

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Family and Consumer Sciences

• National Standards
• Career, Community and Family Connections
• Interpersonal Relationships
• www.ed.state.nh.us/education/FCS
• New Hampshire FCS Education Guidelines Strand
  1 Family, Career, Community and Interpersonal
  Relationships

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Family and Consumer ScienceA New Hampshire Model

• Middle School-Grades 6-8
• Topics
• Career Exploration
• Interpersonal Relationship
• Human Growth and Development
• Personal Financial Literacy
• Food Nutrition

High School-Grades 9-12

• FCS- Adult Roles and Responsibilities (ARR)
  Survey Course available to all students.
• Topics
• Interpersonal Relationships including
  communication conflict resolution
• Adult roles including parenting
• Personal Financial Literacy

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Family and Consumer SciencesHigh Schools Grades
9-12(Continued)

• Further Study in Secondary
• Family and Consumer Sciences
• Family Issues
• Marriage and Parenting
• Child Development
• Consumer Resource Management
• Issues of Aging
• Foods and Nutrition

• Career and Technical Education

• ARR provides the foundation for
• Workplace skills for all careers
• Balancing personal, family and work lives

• ARR provides introduction to related FCS Careers
• such as
• Family Studies
• Early Childhood Educator Birth
  Grade 3
• Marriage, Child Family
  Counselors
• Consumer Credit Counselors

Strong Families Strong Workers
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Nontraditional Interest Surveys

• NAPE Resources-Nontraditional Career Short List
• www.napequity.org
• Nontraditional Training and Employment Resources
  www.hawaii.edu/cte/nontraditional.html

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Startling Statements

• 1. Women represented______ of automobile
  mechanics in 2003
• 2. In 2001, _____ of men in the work force, 16
  years and older, were receiving wages below the
  poverty level.
• 3. In 2002, the median weekly earnings for women
  as registered nurses was 870 while male
  registered nurses median weekly earnings was ____

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Answers

• Statement 1 1.4
• Statement 2 4.4
• Statement 3 957

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Questions?