K-5: Academic Planning
The process by which one uses all information to relate educational choices to future career goals
Learner Goal 1
Gain awareness of the benefits of educational achievement.
Indicators
- Describe how academic skills can be used in the home and community.
- Identify personal strengths and weaknesses in school subjects.
- Identify academic skills needed in several occupational groups.
- Describe relationship between ability, effort, and achievement.
- Implement a plan of action for improving academic skills.
- Describe school tasks that are similar to the skills essential for job success.
- Describe how the amount of education needed for different occupational levels varies.
Learner Goal 2
Gain awareness of the career planning process.
Indicators
- Describe the importance of planning.
- Describe skills needed in a variety of occupational groups.
Suggested Activities
- Infusion of activities into the current curriculum
- Parent conferences to review student academic and employability skills, strengths, and weaknesses*
- Career study trips to educational facilities
- Resource speakers emphasizing the relationship of academic skills to work
- Elementary ICP folders
* This and other starred activities facilitate parental involvement.
