The Career Development Toolkit: A New Resource for Linking Career Clusters to Comprehensive Guidance

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The Career Development Toolkit A New Resource
for Linking Career Clusters to Comprehensive
Guidance Information on Education and Work2007
Career Clusters Institute
Americas Career Resource Network / National
Training and Support Center www.acrnetwork.org
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Presentation Highlights

• What is Americas Career Resource Network?
• Whats New for ACRN Web Site Modifications
• Career Development Toolkit Audience, Structure
• Live Demo of Career Development Toolkit
• Don Hilber
• Senior Research and Policy Associate
• DTI Associates, Inc. - A Haverstick Company

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What is ACRN?

• Network operating in 59 states and territories
• Provide information, resources and training on
  career and education exploration
• State CRN Directors, Guidance Supervisors, and
  local career development professionals are all
  part of the Network
• Formerly funded at the state and national levels
  by grants from the U.S. Department of Education
  (section 118)
• Perkins IV / 0 appropriations prompting changes

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National Tools Resources

• Web Site ACRN Centerpiece www.acrnetwork.org
• National Career Development Guidelines
• Career Decision-Making Tool
• Career Development Toolkit
• Evaluation Template
• Parent Brochures
• Spanish-language Materials
• Hot Topics, Resource Library, State Resources

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ACRN Web Site Today

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ACRN Web Site Remake

• New focus on broader audience state and local
  career development professionals
• Highlight new/revised in-house content
• National Career Development Guidelines, Career
  Decision Making Tool, Career Development Toolkit,
  Toolkit for Post-Secondary Success, Promising
  Practices
• Focus on national education initiatives
• Career Clusters/Pathways, College and Career
  Transitions, No Child Left Behind, Higher
  Education Plan, American Competitiveness
• Tie together education and labor

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ACRN Web Site Tomorrow

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New in 2007 !

• Career Development Toolkit
• Purpose to help career guidance professionals
  easily locate the information they need in order
  to better assist parents, students and teachers
  at all learning levels
• Framework a multi-layered Web site with five
  groupings and several elements within each that
  contain annotated links and documents
• When First release March 2007
• Upcoming ACRN Website Webinar
• Additional Materials Possible

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Toolkit Framework

• Five major groupings
• Career Planning
• High School, Post-Secondary and Work Preparation
• Post-Secondary Selection
• The Labor Market
• Professional Practices
• First four depict typical stages in identifying a
  career and attaining work in it (with overlaps)

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Toolkit Layer 1 Groupings

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Toolkit Layer 2 Elements

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Toolkit Layer 3 Info

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Toolkit Element Information

• Contains a Starter Set of
• Links to Pertinent Websites Webpages
• Documents
• Annotated Descriptions of Sites / Documents
• Information Selected by NTSC Staff and Advisors
• Will Need Active Management to Stay Current
• Potential for Expansion and User-Interaction

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Career Planning

• Elements
• Exploring Careers
• Choosing Interest Assessments and Checklists
• Understanding Career Clusters/Pathways

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High School, Post-Secondary and Work Preparation

• Elements
• Choosing Programs of Study
• Promoting Student Achievement
• Developing Curriculum

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Post-Secondary Selection

• Elements
• Choosing Post-Secondary Options
• Financing Post-Secondary Education

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The Labor Market

• Elements
• Understanding Labor Market Information
• Managing the Career Search and Interviewing
• Managing Internships and Job Shadowing
• Entering the Workplace

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Professional Practices

• Elements
• Understanding the Career Development
  Professionals Role
• Implementing Comprehensive Guidance Programs
• Establishing Strategic Partnerships and Marketing
• Participating in Professional Development
• Implementing State Models, Evaluation and Best
  Practices

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Implications

• How will the Career Development Toolkit help
  Implement Career Clusters ?
• Contains specific links and documents about
  Career Clusters and other related topics
• Places Career Clusters in a larger context
  multiple decision points national-state-local
  roles
• Built for all stages of learning middle/high
  school, community, technical and four-year
  colleges
• Acknowledges the key role of the career
  development professional not just a
  student-oriented Web site
• Promotes no particular vendor, service or route

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Questions and Answers !

• Questions???
• DTI Presenters at Career Clusters Institute
• Don Hilber
• Senior Research and Policy Associate
• DTI Associates, Inc. - A Haverstick Company
• dhilber_at_dtihq.com
• Louisa Fuller
• Senior Analyst
• DTI Associates, Inc. - A Haverstick Company
• lfuller_at_dtihq.com