Making Career Exploration Work
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The Dayton Regional STEM School (DRSS) uses a comprehensive career exploration and preparation model to help students develop 21st century skills and enter STEM fields. The model includes STEM foundations courses, partnerships with local businesses, an annual career fair, power lunch speaker series, job shadowing, internships, technical writing training, and two new career pathways. The goals are to help students explore careers, make connections in the STEM community, and gain professional experiences so that 70% enter STEM fields and the region benefits from a prepared workforce.
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Making Career Exploration Work
- 1. Making Career Exploration Work Robin Fisher, Arch Grieve, Colleen Fulton, Brianna Moen, & Hiba Ahmad
- 2. The Dayton Regional STEM School Who we are
- 3. DRSS Career Exploration/Preparation Model • STEM Foundations • Partnership Connections in the Classroom • Career Fair • Power Lunch • Job Shadowing • Internships • Experiential Learning • Two New Career Pathways
- 4. STEM Foundations • Grades 6-8 • Teaches “soft skills” • Focuses on Career Exploration • Helps students create portfolios • Creates assignments used in conjunction with Career Fair • 8th grade focuses on finding job shadow locations for 9th grade
- 5. Partnership Connections in the Classroom • STEMmersion • STEM Experts • Debate Judges • Critiques
- 6. College & Career Fair • Takes place annually open to all students (in the future hope to open to alumni) • Goals: • Allow students to connect with industry professionals who may serve as future job shadow/internship contacts • Prompt students to think about the choices they'll need to make now in order to realize their future career aspirations • Beginning the process of educating students on the career opportunities that are available locally so that they will stay in the Dayton region and help fill the STEM workforce pipeline
- 7. Power Lunch • Evolved over time (and still changing) • Last year utilized a “Pecha Kucha” presentation style • Goal is to expose students to STEM careers • Another goal is to find Women in STEM to present and serve as role models • Changes this year
- 8. Job Shadow • 9th and 10th graders do this each year • Students off-site all day • Encouraged to find their own location • COD responsible for finding roughly ½ of shadow sites
- 9. Technical Reading & Writing • Course added at industry partners’ suggestion • Goal is to prepare students for their career exploration and search for internship site • Student outcomes: • Professional communication • Technical & lab reports • White Papers • Grant writing • Resumes
- 10. Internship Experience • Students typically complete during 11th grade • 72 hours minimum • Counts as ½ credit towards graduation • Students responsible for finding location (with support from Tech Reading & Writing teacher, the COD, and the counselor) • Must do something that benefits the host organization
- 11. Brianna Moen Air Force Research Laboratory’s Gaming Research Integration for Learning in Laboratories (GRILL)
- 12. Hiba Ahmad Good Samaritan Hospital, Premier Health Network
- 13. Internship Assignment • Required for all internship experiences • Begins with Career Exploration Report • Includes a daily blog chronicling your experience • Ends with a reflection
- 14. Colleen Fulton University of Dayton Research Institute (UDRI)
- 15. Experiential Learning • Students finished with an internship can complete an experiential learning • Similar requirements to internship and allows students the opportunity to earn credit
- 16. Career Pathways • Two new Career Pathways • Engineering • Computer Science • Students graduate with industry credentials • Partners help design Career Pathways and credentialing process
- 17. Outcomes • 70% of students enter STEM fields • All students graduate with professional experience • Students begin networking in high school and make connections with STEM professionals • 21st Century skills development
- 18. Anna Bowsher I graduated from Texas A&M University Commerce with a Bachelor of Science in Biology with Highest Honors. I graduated two semesters early, completed an undergraduate thesis, and maintained a Summa Cum Laude GPA. Thank you to all my teachers at DRSS so much for your contribution to my education and your part in helping me to become a student with strong persistence, communication, collaboration, creativity, and inquiry skills (as well as integrity). - Anna Bowsher DRSS, Class of 2013 Texas A&M University Commerce, Class of 2016
- 19. Hopes for the Dayton region • Students in other schools/districts benefit from similar career preparation programs and models • As other schools implement their own job shadow/internship programs, companies and organizations will become more comfortable with the idea of hosting students for these opportunities and increase the number of opportunities available to high school students • Ultimately, the entire Dayton region benefits from having students exposed to careers from an early age and companies have the mindset of reaching out to students while they’re still in high school and getting them to stay local
- 20. How to begin • Start slowly • Power Lunches are a great place to start • Begin bringing in guest speakers/critiquers and developing relationships with industry partners • Build up to more time-consuming programs like internships, job shadowing, and career fairs
- 21. Online Poll To complete this poll please visit: PollEv.com/archgrieve493 Poll results can be found at goo.gl/qijv2B
- 22. Project:WRIGHT Symposium When: November 4th at DRSS Training Center Proposals are due this Saturday! Cost is just $20 (if you register early) Learn more at: www.daytonstemschool.org/projectwright Keynote Speaker: OH Board of Education Member A.J. Wagner
- 23. Questions?
- 24. Contact Information Robin Fisher (Twitter: @DRSS_Super) Superintendent/Chief Administrative Officer (robin.fisher@wright.edu) Arch Grieve (Twitter: @ArchGrieve) Community Outreach Director (arch.grieve@wright.edu) Website: www.daytonstemschool.org
- 25. Making Career Exploration Work DRSS Career Exploration/Preparation Program Read more about student requirements for internships at www.daytonstemschool.org/internships Find digital portfolio requirements at http://drssportfolio.wixsite.com/handbook Contact Info: Robin Fisher, Superintendent/CAO Twitter: @DRSS_Super | robin.fisher@wright.edu Arch Grieve, Community Outreach Director Twitter: @ArchGrieve | arch.grieve@wright.edu College & Career Fair Job Shadowing Internships Guest Speakers Power Lunches STEM Foundations Technical Writing Experiential Learning Career Exploration Career Preparation Career Pathways Project-Based Learning
Editor's Notes
- Both of us will introduce ourselves and what we do at the school. Students will introduce themselves as well.
- Robin - History of the school, who we are, background, etc. - We are an independent STEM school located in Kettering that serves students from 8 counties and 33 school districts. Our student body is diverse. While we are likely to attract students who have an interest in STEM, we are not a selective school, but use a random lottery to choose students for each class. The reason we started - Focus on STEM at the state and community level 2007 - community leaders discussed the needs for STEM workforce development in Dayton. Through these discussions the community decided to invest in the concept of a brick and mortar school that could prepare students for STEM careers. DRSS was built on a model of STEM career development. Our educational model is build on project based learning because this curricular model helps develop creative thinkers with 21st century skills that are needed in the current and future workforce. Our school motto is “The Real World Starts Here” which reflects our focus on involving external partners in the education experience. We are working hard to have the students engaged in solving problems that exist in the Dayton region and across Ohio. This adds authenticity to the learning and increases student engagement.
- Arch – Robert career exploration/preparation model that we’d like to tell you about today and perhaps give you some ideas of your own on how you can integrate some of these into your school or district setting
- Robin In 2011, our first STEM Foundations course was born.
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- Arch Nearly 50 different orgs represented last year at our Career Fair event Students had assignments tied to the experience, e.g. 7th graders had to interview a few different presenters and ask them about their careers, then write a short reflection about what they thought about those careers and which two of our five qualities they thought they’d need in those careers (and why) Goal overall is to help increase student awareness of different career possibilities they can enter, but also to begin connecting them with local businesses and organizations that they might go on to work for
- Arch Something we started early on and are always changing. Last year did a PK format, this year going back to more traditional setting, but goal remains the same: try to expose students to individuals who are in different STEM careers so they can begin to see themselves in those career fields and ask questions about their paths towards those professions
- Arch Great experience for our students as it gives them a lot of exposure (many for the first time) of the work environment/setting of a career they hope to enter I try to find experiences that match their stated interests Some love it, others realize they don’t want to go down that path, but both are valuable insights Always looking for new job shadow mentors/locations, and often these can turn into internships for students Beginning to take the training wheels off a bit as we encourage them to find their own, which is actually built into another class as a “soft skill” the students work on
- Robin Robin introduce Brianna after this
- Brianna
- Robin New Course this year Had a similar course in previous school Avoid Senioritis - gain additional on the job experience - deeper learning
- Robin - The career pathways allow students to take a series of courses that provide a particular focus and will allow them to graduate with industry credentials. May be able to work through college or go straight to a job. Autocad Add information about IT credentials JAVA next year Test Out program - CompTIA aligned - multiple options, but our students are going to get CompTIA PLUS (Hardware), Network Plus - They pay out of pocket - They will get Test Out - nationally recognized - certified by CompTIA - our students will get a free shot at the Test Out exam - Test Out Hardware Pro and Test Out Network Pro - $30/course for Test Out - if they get the certification in Test Out, they can take the CompTIA (higher recognition nationally) - They can get direct college credit for these courses - Sinclair uses Test Out and the course exam to earn the credit Would like to add a Health pathway due to high student interest.
- Robin
- Robin - here’s a story about Anna: http://daytonstemschool.blogspot.com/2016/01/alumna-profile-drss-graduate-fighting.html She also recently completed an undergrad thesis at Texas A&M titled: PROTEIN KINASE C MEDIATED HISTONE H3K27 TRI-METHYLATION AUGMENTS BREAST CANCER CELL METASTASIS
- Arch Workforce development for Dayton Connect business and industry with our students - take down the barriers and not have school occur in isolation. Tell the story about how when we first started people said they “don’t do job shadowing and internships” - now we have a list of over 100 job shadow mentors and almost as many different organizations, but are always hoping to add more and increase the number of organizations who are willing to participate in experiences like these for our students.
- Arch
- Which of the following would be the easiest to implement in your current environment or do you currently offer? Career Fair Job Shadowing Internships Experiential Learning What is the next career exploration experience that you would like to add to your organization? Career Fair Job Shadowing Internships Experiential Learning Other What resource would help you to be able to add additional career exploration in your current environment? Money Administrative support Personnel Partner connections Student interest
- Arch – while you’re filling that out, just a quick plug for an upcoming symposium we have at DRSS Created by teachers for teachers, and we’re hoping to get a few more presenters to submit proposals, but the deadline is this Saturday, so please hurry! Excited to have keynote speaker A.J. Wagner, former judge locally and now on State BOE One great things is you can get graduate credit from WSU for attending for an additional $150, so hope you’ll join us and submit a proposal
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