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Freshman Academies Help Students Set Course for Future
Career Choices author Mindy Bingham shares her thoughts with the Career and Technical Education Advisor on how well-structured freshman academies can provide students with the support and resources they need to prepare for self-sufficient futures.
Click here to learn the three components of success Mindy notes as crucial for developing a winning academy.
Career Counseling for Teens
AP reporter Dave Carpenter explores the growing field of career counseling for teenagers. Some
feel that asking students to formalize their plans in their early teen years may cause unnecessary
stress. According to Career Choices co-author, Mindy Bingham, it's about creating a "roadmap"
by formalizing a plan -- not finalizing a plan.
"It's not about choosing a specific career, but...knowing the process so that if they have a boss
who comes in the door and says 'We're closing down the business' or 'Technology just changed
your job,' they'll be in a position to know how to make this change."
Read this article.
Critical Thinking about Salaries
We came across an interesting tidbit on the CareerBuilder web site: "Are TV characters' salaries
realistic?"
As your students are working through the budget activity in Career Choices or the extended
budget in Lifestyle Math, you're asking them to idealize their future lifestyle -- and then you ask
them to think critically about the commitment to education and training necessary to achieve it.
Here's a chance to invite them to critique the "fiscal reality" of the lifestyles they see portrayed on
television.
Visit the CareerBuilder web site for to view this interesting article.
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