Career education provides students with the opportunity to acquire skills to help them evaluate possible career paths. Students learn by doing. Vocational training is a different type of education. It requires students to take part in a variety of academic subjects.
What is Career Education?
Young adults can make long-lasting decisions about their future careers by making the right choices at school. Secondary education serves the primary purpose of preparing students for work. Career education gives them the knowledge, skills and encouragement to succeed in their chosen career.
Clear goals help students engage and motivate better. Career education helps students to focus and make informed career choices. Counselors and teachers provide guidance and support that bridges education and work.
How positive action can help
Positive Action helps students to be ready for the workforce. Students learn skills that will help them evaluate career options and become productive employees within their organization. Positive Action encourages students to consider their best abilities and strengths as they develop their self-concept.
Students are required to reflect on their education options and choose the most effective path to pursue their interests.
Career Education Standards
Positive Action was also evaluated to determine if it aligned with academic standards. Here is a list indicating which career education standards were associated with Positive Action lessons.
Develop Career Awareness
- You will be able to evaluate, interpret and locate career information.
- Increase your awareness of your abilities, interests, motivations, and skills
- Learn to work in teams and interact with others
- Planning is essential
- You can pursue and build your expertise in a variety of areas.
- Balance work and pleasure
- Learn employability skills like problem solving, teamwork, and organization skills.
- Learn more about the rights, responsibilities and obligations of employees and employers
- Learn to appreciate individuality at work
- Learn the importance to be responsible, reliable, punctual, honest, and diligent at work
- Learn time-management and task management skills
Acquire Career Information
- Make career decisions to help you plan your career, choose the right course and transition.
- Find your personal interests, skills and talents and connect them to your current career path
- Demonstrate expertise in the career planning process
- Find out how occupations are classified
- For career information, you can use information and research resources
- Use the internet to find career-planning information
- Discuss traditional and non-traditional career options and their relationship to career choice
- Find out how the changing needs of society and economics influence future employment trends.
Identify Career Goals
- Be aware of the training and education required to attain career goals
- Modify and assess an education plan in support of a career.
- Utilize your employability and job-preparation skills for internships, mentoring, shadowing, and/or other work experiences
- Take courses that relate to your career goals
- Maintain a career-planning portfolio
To achieve your career goals, you need to acquire knowledge
- Learn how education and career success are interrelated
- Discuss the benefits of work to your personal success.
- You can identify your personal interests and preferences to influence career choice.
- Understanding that work environments are constantly changing requires you to learn new skills and continue learning.
- Please describe the impact of work upon your lifestyle
- Recognize the importance equity and access to your career options
- Work is a satisfying and important form of expression.
Use your skills to achieve your career goals
- Demonstrate the relationship between your career, personal, and social goals.
- Learn how to manage conflict with adults and peers
- As a member of a team, learn to cooperate with others
- Learn academic and employability skills through work-based learning experiences such as internships and shadowing.
In conclusion
Career education has a central goal: to improve the outcomes and accomplishments of students. This structure gives students the knowledge and skills necessary to have a successful career. No matter the student's abilities or interests, career education is a rewarding way to work.
