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.