Infusing Career Development Strategies into Programs of Study

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Infusing Career Development Strategies into
Programs of Study

• Ray Davis, Ph.D.
• Gisela Harkin
• OVAE
• United States Department of Education

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Career Guidance and Perkins IV

• Providecareer guidance and academic counseling
  programs designed to promote improved career and
  education decision-making
• Perkins Act of 2006 The Official Guide

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Career Guidance and Perkins IV

• Provide academic and career and technology
  education teachers, faculty, administrators, and
  career guidance and academic counselors with the
  knowledge, skills and occupational information to
  assist parents and studentswith career
  exploration
• Perkins Act of 2006 The Official Guide

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Career Guidance and Perkins IV

• Provide career guidance and academic
  counselingimproves which may include the usage
  of a graduation and career plans.
• Perkins Act of 2006 The Official Guide

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Career Guidance and Perkins IV

• Local education and business partnerships
  including work-related experiences for students,
  such as internships, cooperative education,
  school-based enterprises, entrepreneurship, and
  job shadowing
• Perkins Act of 2006 The Official Guide

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Career Guidance and Perkins IV

• Describe how career guidance and academic
  counseling will be provided to CTE students
• (New Local Plans Requirements)
• Perkins Act of 2006 The Official Guide

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Career Guidance and Perkins IV

• Describe how comprehensive professional
  development of CTE, academic, guidance, and
  administrative personnel, will be provided that
• (New Local Plans Requirements)
• Perkins Act of 2006 The Official Guide

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How Personal Pathways Work
Steps to Success
Employment Career Advancement Continuing
Education and Lifelong Learning
Postsecondary Career Preparation Achieving
credentials college, certification,
apprenticeship, military
9-12 Career Preparation Academics and technical
courses, intensive guidance, individual
graduation plans
Grade 8 Transition Choosing a career cluster and
major (can change easily at any time later)
6-8 Career Exploration Discovering interest areas
K-5 Career Awareness Introduction to the world
of careers
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Perkins IV and the Future Direction for Career
Guidance

• Guidance is a whole-school, standards-based
  curriculum that must involve teachers,
  administrators, career specialists, parents,
  elected officials, and local workforce
  representatives, and guidance staff.

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Perkins IV and the Future Direction for Career
Guidance

• Schools and school counselors themselves must
  begin to see the school counselor as a manager of
  comprehensive school guidance who specializes in
  counseling.

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Perkins IV and the Future Direction for Career
Guidance

• State models of career guidance should be
  standards-based and based on the states
  comprehensive guidance standards. If the state
  has no state guidance standards, the career
  guidance model should be structured around the
  standards of the National Career Development
  Guidelines.

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Perkins IV and the Future Direction for Career
Guidance

• The state should implement a system of data
  driven accountability that ensures that all
  students are provided with career guidance in
  grades K-12.

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Perkins IV and the Future Direction for Career
Guidance

• Guidance accountability should be aligned with
  LEA school improvement plans, school report
  cards, and AYP goals.

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Perkins IV and the Future Direction for Career
Guidance

• All states should develop a comprehensive data
  management system to provide stakeholders and
  educational leaders with information on students
  career and academic development. This system
  should provide data to enable educators to study
  effectiveness of career interventions and
  assessments as the basis of academic and career
  planning.

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Success in South Carolina

• Quick Facts
• Over 225,000 student portfolios in SC
• More than 310,000 assessments completed
• Nearly 600 sites signed up to use the system
• Top Interests
• Finance
• Health Science
• Architecture Construction
• Agriculture, Food, Natural Resources
• Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics
• Top Skills
• Agriculture, Food, Natural Resources
• Information Technology
• Arts, AV Technology, Communications
• Education Training
• Human Services

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Perkins IV and the Future Direction for Career
Guidance

• All states should utilize an individual career
  and academic planning instrument for all students
  that annotates K-16 career development and
  academic planning and can be used by educators,
  parents/family representatives, and the students.
  This document should be the catalyst for
  academic and career decision making and
  communications between the school and their
  students and their parents/family
  representatives. Annual conferences for all
  students and the students parent/family
  representative should be used to review this
  document are essential.

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• The process of creating individual learning
  planshelps engage students in their own
  development, a critical component in their
  success.

Chait, R., Muller, R.D., Goldware, S., Housman,
N.G. (2007). Academic interventions to help
students meet rigorous standards State policy
options. Washington, DC Institute for
Educational Leadership.
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South Carolinas e-IGP
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Perkins IV and the Future Direction for Career
Guidance

• Administrators should prioritize the guidance
  function to maximize career guidance. LEAs
  should adapt the ASCA Models recommendations of
  permissible and non-permissible duties for school
  counselor allowing them to manage the schools
  guidance program and to provide quality career
  counseling.

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ASCA Guidelines Appropriate (counseling)
activities

• Designing individual student academic programs
• Interpreting cognitive, aptitude and
• achievement tests
• Counseling students with excessive tardiness or
  absenteeism
• Counseling students with disciplinary problems
• Counseling students about appropriate school
  dress
• Collaborating with teachers to present guidance
  curriculum lessons

• Analyzing grade-point averages in relationship to
  achievement
• Interpreting student records
• Providing teachers with suggestions for better
  study hall management
• Ensuring student records are maintained in
  accordance with state and federal regulations
• Assisting the school principal with identifying
  and resolving student issues, needs and problems
• Collaborating with teachers to present proactive,
  prevention-based guidance curriculum lessons

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ASCA Guidelines Inappropriate (non-counseling)
activities

• Performing disciplinary actions
• Sending home students who are not appropriately
  dressed
• Teaching classes when teachers are absent
• Computing grade-point averages
• Maintaining student records
• Supervising study halls
• Clerical record keeping

• Registering and scheduling all new students
• Administering cognitive, aptitude and achievement
  tests
• Signing excuses for students who are tardy or
  absent
• Assisting with duties in the principals office
• Working with one student at a time in a
  therapeutic, clinical mode

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Perkins IV and the Future Direction for Career
Guidance

• State leaders should work with counselor and
  teacher education programs to ensure that
  preparation programs prepare candidates for
  education careers by inserting in the curriculum
  information on career clusters, programs of
  study,
• national and state legislation, contextual
  learning, and career development practices.

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Perkins IV and the Future Direction for Career
Guidance

• Career awareness guidance must be heavily
  emphasized in grades K-5 for the programs of
  study to be most effective.

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The importance of an early start

• As children move toward adolescence, they must
  accomplish four major career development tasks.
  Specifically, they must (a) become concerned
  about the future, (b) increase personal control
  over their lives, (c) convince themselves to
  achieve in school and at work, and (d) develop
  competent work habits and attributes.
• Super, Savickas, Savickas (1996). The
  life-span, life space approach to careers. In D.
  Brown L.Brooks (eds.).

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• 2005 South Carolina Education and
• Economic Development Act
• Grades PK-5
• the foundation for the clusters of study
  system in elementary school by providing career
  awareness activities
• 2006-07 school yearschool guidance and
  counseling programwith career awareness and
  exploration activities must be integrated into
  the curricula for students in the first through
  fifth grades
• model(to) assist school districts and
  communities with theschool guidance and
  counseling program to support the personal,
  social, educational, and career development of
  pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade students

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Perkins IV and the Future Direction for Career
Guidance

• All LEAs should develop a parental involvement
  component to educate parents/family
  representative on the necessity of career
  guidance in a global society. LEAs should
  develop plans to empower parents/family
  representative with career information and the
  career decision making process to support their
  childs career development.

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From SCs Career Guidance Model Parental
Involvement

• Beginning in early in the elementary years, it is
  critical to educate the parents to be good
  consumer advocates for their students career
  guidance K-12explain to all K-5 parents

• What career guidance is (and is not.)
• Their districts plan to deliver K-12 career
  guidance.
• The parents role to monitor progress.
• How K-5 career awareness provides a foundation
  for the 6-12 career guidance years
• Guidance standards
• Workplace issues that will affect the job market
  their children will be entering

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Perkins IV and the Future Direction for Career
Guidance

• LEAs should provide all students with multiple
  reliable and valid career assessments throughout
  K-12 to enable them to develop and clarify their
  career self-concept. The results of these
  assessments should be used to support academic
  and career planning and create a strong
  foundation for lifelong career decision making

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• 2005 South Carolina Education and
• Economic Development Act
• Grades 6-8
• middle grades programs must allow students to
  identify career interests and abilities and align
  them with clusters of study for the development
  of Individual Graduation Plans
• promote increased awareness and career
  counseling by providing access tooccupational
  information system
• counseling and career awareness programs on
  clusters of study must be provided to students in
  the sixth, seventh, and eighth gradescareer
  interest inventories and information to assist
  them in the career decision-making process.
• the end of the second semester of the eighth
  gradestudents shall select a preferred cluster
  of study.

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Perkins IV and the Future Direction for Career
Guidance

• All students should have technology driven access
  to career information delivery systems and
  computerized-assisted career guidance systems
  that provide career awareness, college and career
  exploration, and career preparation through
  career assessments, labor market information, and
  virtual learning.

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Palmetto Pathways in South Carolina

• Palmetto Pathways A Visions System Designed for
  SC
• System design and development led by Dr. JoAnn
  Harris-Bowlsbey in cooperation with key
  stakeholders from all state agencies
• Taskforce collaborated to expand the current
  system into Palmetto Pathways.
• www.palmettopathways.org

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Perkins IV and the Future Direction for Career
Guidance

• All students should engage in extended learning
  opportunities to enhance understanding of ones
  self, academic learning, and careers. These
  opportunities should begin in elementary grades
  and extend through post-secondary. Extended
  learning opportunities include, but are not
  limited to, job shadowing, career mentoring,
  internships, cooperative education,
  apprenticeships, service learning, volunteering,
  and CTSO and student organizational involvement.

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Perkins IV and the Future Direction for Career
Guidance

• Guidance staff should be provided with
  standards-based career guidance lesson plans that
  promote career development in both group and
  individual settings. These lesson plans should
  facilitate the grade level themes of career
  awareness (grades PK-5), career exploration
  (grades 6-8), and career preparation (grades
  9-12).

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Perkins IV and the Future Direction for Career
Guidance

• The LEAs should incorporate guidance staff in
  advisory committees for programs of study.

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Perkins IV and the Future Direction for Career
Guidance

• Guidance staff should be provided with high
  quality professional development to empower them
  to deliver appropriate interventions, quality
  career guidance, and current information and
  resources to support all students in career
  development.

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• Many students are unaware of how critical this
  skill, goal setting and planning, is to a full
  rewarding, and successful life.goals give us our
  bearing and point us in a purposeful direction.

Pellitteri, J., Stern, R., Shelton, C.,
Muller-Ackerman, B. (Eds.) (2006). Emotionally
intelligent school counseling. Mahwah, NJ
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
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Resources

• Available to counselors and others to help
  students plan a coherent educational path or
  program of study
• ACRN Web site www.acrnetwork.org
• Products available
• National Career Development Guidelines
• Career Decision Making Tool

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Resources

• Career Development Toolkit
• Evaluation Template
• Parent Brochures
• Spanish-language materials
• State resources
• Live Demo of the ACRN Web site

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Questions

• Contact
• Gisela Harkin
• Gisela.Harkin_at_ed.gov
• [phone]
• Ray Davis (after Jan.9, 2009)
• rbdavis_at_sde.state.sc.us
• [phone]