3. Definition MDE
What is Career & College Ready? Students that are
Career- and College- ready:
1. Use technology and tools strategically in
learning and communicating
2. Use argument and reasoning to do
research, construct arguments, and critique the
reasoning of others
3. Communicate and collaborate effectively with a
variety of audiences
4. Solve problems, construct explanations and
design solutions
5. What are the objectives of this lesson?
1. You will learn how to access and analyze college
options.
2. You will learn a strategy for making career
and colleges decisions.
3. You learn about college resources which will
help provide useful direction for your career
and college readiness.
6. Learning Goal:
Each student will be able to explain the
three steps of the career and college
readiness process and identify the
fifteen public colleges in Michigan by
earning at least an 80% score on the
post-test.
7. The Three Steps of Career and College
Readiness:
1. Awareness of Careers and Colleges
2. Exploration of Careers and Colleges
3. Decision-Making; Planning and Preparation
8. 12 minutes: Work Values
• Challenge Learning new skills or information, self-development
• Creativity Doing things in a new way, inventing things, or developing different approaches or
methods
• Income Making a high salary
• Prestige Doing work that is seen as important and for which people admire and respect you
• Variety Doing many different activities, not doing the same things all the time
• Working in a Group Working with others, being cooperative, getting to know coworkers
• Helping Others Doing things for others, building a better world
• Security Having stable employment, steady income, not worrying about being laid off
• Physical Activity Doing work that requires physical activity, such as walking, lifting, and carrying
or moving heavy objects
• Making or Fixing Things Using your hands and/or tools to make or fix objects that you can see and
touch
• Public Contact Providing information to the public, talking to people outside your organization
• Independence Being able to determine the nature of work without significant direction or
instructions from others, deciding how and when to do your work
9. Pre-Test for College Awareness
Question # 1 : What are the three steps of the
career and college readiness process?
On your answer document, write the three steps
of the career and college readiness process?
10. Pre-Test for College Awareness
Question # 2 : What are the names of the
fifteen public colleges in Michigan?
On your answer document, write the names of
the fifteen public colleges in Michigan.
11. Pre-Test for College Awareness
Question # 3: What are the names of five
private colleges in Michigan?
On your answer document, write the names of
five private colleges in Michigan.
12. Pre-Test for College Awareness
Question # 4: What are the names of five
community colleges in Michigan?
On your answer document, write the names of
five community colleges in Michigan.
13. Pre-Test College Awareness
Question # 5: To access Career Cruising, what is
the username, and what is the password for
Trenton High School students?
On the answer document, write the username
and password to access Career Cruising.
14. Career and College Readiness
Websites for Career and College Readiness:
http://counselingresourcesandstrategies.blogspot.com/
www.careercruising.com
Highlight Northern Michigan University for Career Pathways.
15. Two Questions:
1. Is more education related to higher earnings?
2. Is more education related to higher rates of
employment?
16. More Education is associated with higher earnings
and higher rates of employment in Michigan
Mean Income Educational Level Unemployment
$8,428 HS Dropout 22%
$23,729 HS Graduate 16%
$27,165 Some College 11%
$59,264 Bachelors & Above 4%
A little over 55% of students who enter public colleges in Michigan earn
their degrees.
80% of Michigan’s jobs are high skills (i.e., require some postsecondary
training.
Yet only 36% of Michigan’s adults have some postsecondary degree
(associate’s or higher).
19. Think-Pair-Share
1. With a partner, review the 15 public colleges.
2. Devise a strategy to memorize the 15 public
colleges.
3. Be prepared to describe your strategy to the
class.
22. Using the Onet Survey
1. Name your top three interests. Determine if
those interests relate to your top career
pathway from career cruising.
2. Name your top three interest areas which
you can do more career exploration.
3. Name three emerging careers and bright out-
look careers which relate to your interests.
24. Think-Pair-Share
1. With a partner, share your survey results.
2. With a partner, identify your top three interests based
on the percentage results.
3. Identify three specific careers within your top three
career interests which you can do more research.
3. Be prepared to communicate your results with the
class.
25. Post-Test Review
1. Review with your partner the three steps of
the career and college readiness process.
2. Review the 15 public colleges in Michigan.
3. Review 5 private colleges in Michigan.
4. Review 5 community colleges in Michigan.
26. Post-Test College Awareness
Question # 1 : What are the three steps of the
career and college readiness process?
On your answer document, write the three steps
of the career and college readiness process.
27. Post-Test for College Awareness
Question # 2 : What are the names of the
fifteen public colleges in Michigan?
On your answer document, write the names of
the fifteen public colleges in Michigan?
28. Post-Test for College Awareness
Question # 3: What are the names of five
private colleges in Michigan?
On your answer document, write the names of
five private colleges in Michigan.
29. Post-Test for College Awareness
Question # 4: What are the names of five
community colleges in Michigan?
On your answer document, write the names of
five community colleges in Michigan.
30. Post-Test for College Awareness
Question # 5: To access Career Cruising, what is
the username, and what is the password for
Trenton High School students?
On the answer document, write the username
and password to access Career Cruising.
32. MSWEducational
1. Google: Msweducational Presentations
http://www.slideshare.net/msweducational
2. Click: College Decision Making
Do you agree with these steps?
3. Review Career Cruising new features.
34. Identify Your Top 4 Colleges
• Review the requirements and costs for your
top four colleges.
35. Summarization of Lesson
1. You will learn how to access and analyze college
options.
2. You will learn a strategy for making career
and colleges decisions.
3. You learn about college resources which will
help provide useful direction for your career
and college readiness.
36. Final Questions:
1. Do you have some questions about career
college readiness which we did not discuss?
2. What part of this lesson was unclear?
3. What was the best skill of knowledge that
you acquired during this lesson?
40. Thank You!
• If you have questions regarding your
career and college plans, please sign up
to talk with your counselor. We would
like to help you with your planning.
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