High School - Academic Planning
The process by which one uses all information to relate educational choices to future career goals
Learner Goal 1
Understand the relationship between educational achievement and career planning.
Indicators
- Demonstrate how to apply academic and vocational skills to achieve personal goals.
- Describe the relationship of academic and vocational skills to personal interests.
- Describe how skills developed in academic and vocational programs relate to career goals.
- Describe how education relates to the selection of college major, further training, and/or entry into the job market.
- Demonstrate skills that can apply to a variety of occupational requirements.
- Describe how learning skills are required in the workplace.
Learner Goal 2
Develop skills in career planning
Indicators
- Describe career plans that reflect the importance of lifelong learning.
- Demonstrate knowledge of postsecondary vocational and academic programs.
- Demonstrate the knowledge that changes may require retraining and upgrading of employees' skills.
- Demonstrate skills necessary to compare education and job opportunities.
Indicators - Demonstrate how to apply academic and vocational skills to achieve personal goals.
- Describe the relationship of academic and vocational skills to personal interests.
- Describe how skills developed in academic and vocational programs relate to career goals.
- Describe how education relates to the selection of college major, further training, and/or entry into the job market.
- Demonstrate skills that can apply to a variety of occupational requirements.
- Describe how learning skills are required in the workplace.
Learner Goal 3
Skills to annually review and revise the ICP document.
Indicators
- Identify experiences that have validated the specific career goal(s) listed on the ICP document
- Identify experiences that have precipitated a change in the specific career goal(s) listed on the ICP document.
- Demonstrate skills necessary to modify the career goal(s) and educational plans on the lCP document.
- Demonstrate how parents and/or guardians have provided input to the ICP process and document.
- Demonstrate the correlation between the lCP document and the actual courses scheduled for ensuing years in high school.
- Demonstrate the correlation between the lCP document and postsecondary training or employment for graduating seniors.
Suggested Activities
- Parent conferences to review ICP documents*
- High school student panels
- Educational shadowing
- Admissions panels
- Study trips to secondary and postsecondary educational facilities
- College and/or technical school and/or career fairs
- Interviews with graduates
- Annual review of the ICP document
* This and other starred activities facilitate parental involvement.
