What is it?

Why do we spend time doing it?

How can it help me?

OHS High School and Beyond Plan...

What is the High School & Beyond Plan? Our 3 Guiding

Questions

Who Am I?

What, then, can I become?

How do I become that?Skills,

Interests, Values, Learning Style & Lifestyle Preference

Career options based on “Who Am I?”….

Education/Training needed for your career(s) of interest.

What is Career Cruising…

Apprenticeshipor

Technical School

Employment or

Gap YearMilitary

Why do I need a plan?

2 or 4-year College

Skill Gap

= jobs!

Career Exploration Brainstorm:What does it take to get a Tootsie Roll in your

hand?

How Many Jobs are Connected to Getting a made and into your mouth?

What are the INGREDIENTS? Where do they come from? How?How is the candy itself MADE?What about PACKAGING? (How is it MADE? DESIGNED?)How does the candy TRAVEL to the store?WHO decides how much to buy?WHAT makes you want to buy a Tootsie Roll?How is the candy REGULATED/MONITORED (serving size, nutrition, etc.)?What about the Tootsie Roll Company? What might its employees do?

High School & Beyond Plan Helping you get from this…..

To this….. Don’t just focus on the “What”!

Think about WHO do YOUwant to be?

What does “SUCCESS” look like to

YOU?

Short-term – by end of 1st Semester At least one academic goal 1 or more other goal(s) related to your activities

either within or outside of OHS

Long-term – by end of 2nd Semester At least one academic goal 1 or more other goal(s) related to your activities

either within or outside of OHS

Setting your own SMART Goals for this year….

SUCCESS

=

High School & Beyond Plan

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

–Oliver Wendell Holmes

TODAY’S TASKS:Goal Setting ~ Short & Long term (1st & 2nd semester)

Needs Assessment and Perceptual Data SurveyOR Learning Styles???

www.careercruising.com

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EX: ohs-reykdalk

Password = your student/login number (add a 0 at the beginning if only 6 #’s)

Check out the website’s “home page” while everyone gets logged in….