Education with a Purpose. Your Child’s Future Begins Here The Time Has Come...

Education with a Purpose

Your Child’s Future

Begins Here

The Time Has Come . . .

Learn more about

Hollidaysburg Area School District’s

Career Pathways Program

Career information is presented to

students in all grades using the

following curriculum flow guide:

Curriculum Flow

Elementary

Career Awareness

Junior High

Career Exploration

Senior High

Career Planning/Preparation

What is a career pathways program?

Career Pathways is:

A flexible, guided process for assisting students with career awareness.

A focused awareness of how courses are related to career interests, ability/aptitude and personal goals through the connection of classroom experiences and career exploration.

Career Pathways is:

An opportunity for ALL students in all grades to explore careers through job fairs, shadowing experiences, business speakers, interview experiences, and personal assessments.

Career Pathways is not:

The tracking or labeling of students A permanent commitment to a career The training for a specific job or career A means of replacing or weakening the

current curriculum

Students explore career information from the five major career pathways.

These include:

The Plan . . .

Pathway Option

Business

Computer Information Systems

Business Administration,Marketing, Mathematics, Sales

Pathway Option

Communications

Journalism, Language Arts, Media, Public Relations

The Arts – Music, Theater, Visual

Pathway Option

Engineering and Industrial

Architecture, Construction, Manufacturing

Material Sciences and Nanofabrication

Pathway Option

Human Services

Consumer Services and Human Development

Education, Government, Law

Pathway Option

Science

Biomedical, Physical, Earth Science

Environmental

Elementary Career Pathway Activities

K through 6 grades

The career pathways concept begins in kindergarten and continues through the elementary grades where students are introduced to career related concepts through guidance and classroom activities.

Junior High Career Pathway Activities

Grades 7, 8 and 9

Junior High Students have many activities which enable them to learn about careers AND begin to decide about their own interests and abilities. These activities include:

Grade Seven

The Career Game Activity

Counselor generated list of careers for each student based on results of The Career Game

Follow up research project for The Career Game includes introduction to the Pathways

Pathway Pals Computer Activity with research

Grade Eight

Introduction to the Career Fair and pathway terms

The Career Fair Self-directed Search activity with

connections to each of the pathways A lesson on each pathway presented in the

computer class with a follow up project The Career Conference

Grade Nine

Panel Presentation for each Pathway (one per month)

Video Presentation for each Pathway (one per month)

Differential Aptitude Test with connections to the Pathways

Final project in the computer class GACTC tours

Senior High Career Pathway Activities

Grades 10, 11, 12

Enrollment in an elective subject related to the pathway choice

Participation in career related activities that are directly related to a career pathway in elective and required courses

Career focused graduation project completed in the senior year

Grades 10, 11 and 12

Opportunities for shadowing and field trip experiences related to a student’s pathway choice

Presentations by speakers directly related to a student’s pathway choice

Counselor directed career activities through the Bridges program and other sites

Summary

Career Pathways is a plan which encourages students to examine their personal information and then use this information to make informed, career related post-secondary decisions

For additional information about the career pathways program please contact a guidance counselor or visit the career pathways web page on the Tigerwires site.

Information

Career Pathways Web Page

Link on all sites Description of program Section available to post classroom and

guidance activities

Parent Presentation 9/4/08

Help Needed

Please contact Debbie Lardieri at 695-7319 if you

would like to assist our career pathways endeavor.