Career Readiness | Origin: LC103
What areas in your school need improvement related to developing student career readiness?
We need to engage counselors in planning more career related activities
We need to get students more involved with being self directed when they have some down time. The pacing when having two different levels of students and one teacher can become a juggling act. Sometimes the more advanced students need to revisit some old tasks and refresh or maybe get started on new fundamentals.
We need to build our team to work with students. So we need to involve counselors, support staff, and parapros more in our everyday activiities.
More than just one career center staff person, there needs to be a team approach and involvement with teachers, support staff, and administration to identify current practices, guage effectiveness, and ultimately improve what isn't working.
I concur with Bill. Our counselors spend more time directing kids in their academic classes and not enough time really working with the students on finding those things that interest them. CTE classes typically keep those students in school that otherwise would leave.
At our school we need to continue to seek work-based learning opportunities across al program areas. For some of our programs, relevent instructional goals need to be in place that put a focus on career readiness rather than just traditional academic goals.
One person with many hats. It's a lot to juggle and sometimes one person is split across multiple high schools.
Building a career readiness culture among all staff - school counselors (with a 1:400 ratio) cannot be the only individuals responsible for career awareness. All staff must intertwine career readiness activities and competencies within academic standards.
Our school needs more intership and capstone opportunities for students.
Our schools need to develop a clear vision for each high school in regards to what a career ready student looks like. How can we get the train moving if we do not have the tracks (vison) laid yet. Once the vision is clear all other work will align and needed support like additional staff and outside support for experience opportunities will follow.
We are needing to create a grades 7-12 vertical plan for Career Readiness that addresses the necessary competencies of Career Readiness and Career exploration. This needs to be a systematic plan that guides students through their education that results in them feeling confidently prepared for the workforce.
As far as I can tell there is very little attention paid to career exploration activities. Students are required to complete a "career plan" but it's based only on their own self-reported ideas not on any assessments or exploration activities.
