Transcript Structuring Effective Career Guidance to Enhance the

Structuring Effective Career
Guidance to Enhance the
Implementation of Programs
of Study
Original Presentation:
Steve Frank (OVAE)
Summary Presentation:
Lauren Binder (Hopewell Public Schools)
Counselors Must Value…
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Career exploration
and awareness
Career planning
The development of a
student in all areas
Transitioning students
to the next level
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Programs of study as
the plan for the
student growth
Programs of study as
the center of a
guidance program
Working with students
Counselors Must Understand…
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The world is changing
 Skills
that are relevant now will most likely be
obsolete by the time our students graduate
 Many students graduating from high school now will
work in positions that do not even exist when they
graduate from college
 Flexibility and technology are key
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Our guidance and the Programs of Study that
we provide will play a large role in a student’s
life after their K-12 education
Counselors Must Provide…
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The tools for students to develop
 Academically,
Personally-Socially, and
Professionally (Career development)
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Skills in
 Self-Assessment,
Decision making, Goal
setting, and Career planning
Programs of Study
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Integral part of overall educational plan
Outcome-based
Planned stages
Accountability
Various strategies
Delivered by a team
 Counselor,
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Teacher, Parent, Community
K-20 application
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
Career Guidance and Perkins IV
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“Provide…career guidance and
academic counseling programs
designed to promote improved
career and education decisionmaking …”
“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
students…with career
exploration…”
“Describe how career guidance
and academic counseling will be
provided to CTE students…”
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“Provide career guidance and
academic counseling…improves
which may include the usage of a
graduation and career plans.
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“Local education and business
partnerships including workrelated experiences for students,
such as internships, cooperative
education, school-based
enterprises, entrepreneurship, and
job shadowing…”
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“Describe how comprehensive
professional development …of
CTE, academic, guidance, and
administrative personnel, will be
provided that…”
Perkins Act of 2006: The Official Guide
ASCA Guidelines
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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 lesson
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Inappropriate Counseling Activities
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 principal’s office
Working with one student at a time in a
therapeutic, clinical mode
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
Helpful Links
www.acrnetwork.org
 www.careerclusters.org
 www.schoolcounselor.org
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Contact Information
Steve Frank
Lauren Binder
[email protected]
[email protected]
202-245-6051
804-541-6404