Middle School - Academic Planning
The process by which one uses all information to relate educational choices to future career goals
Learner Goal 1
Gain knowledge of how educational achievement benefits career opportunities.
Indicators
- Describe the importance of academic and occupational skills in the work world.
- Identify how the skills taught in school subjects are used in various occupations.
- Describe one's own strengths and weaknesses in school subjects.
- Describe a plan of action for increasing one's basic educational skills.
- Describe the skills needed to adjust to changing occupational requirements.
- Describe how continued learning enhances one's ability to achieve goals.
- Describe how skills relate to the selection of high school courses of study.
- Describe how aptitudes and abilities relate to broad occupational groups.
Learner Goal 2
Initiate an ICP document.
Indicators
- Describe the process used to establish decisions regarding the ICP document.
- Identify how parents and/or guardians have provided input for the ICP document.
- Demonstrate the correlation between the ICP document and the actual courses scheduled for the ninth-grade year.
Suggested Activities
- Parent conferences to review ICP documents*
- High school student panels
- Educational shadowing (such as middle-school student shadowing vocational student)
- College admissions panels
- Career study trips to secondary and postsecondary educational facilities
- Small-group discussions of ICP documents
- Biographies and/or reports describing one's future educational plans
- Posters and/or flowcharts, and/or collages to reflect individual educational choices
* This and other starred activities facilitate parental involvement.
