Career Development

Comprehensive career development helps students to discover their interests, talents, abilities, and the different ways these talents and abilities might be used. It also equips students with research skills to enable them to form a realistic picture of job opportunities. The skills learned through comprehensive career development are also lifework planning skills because students will use them repeatedly over the course of their lifetimes. Because of the breadth of comprehensive career development, it needs the involvement of all school staff, parents, and the greater community to help students learn lifework planning skills. Click on the following topics for more information, teacher resources to use in the classroom, student worksheets, and internet links to related sites:

• Career Development links
• Resources for Teachers, Students, and Parents
• The Lifework Planning Guide: A Student and Parent Guide to High School Planning
• Job Shadowing
• Career Clusters
• Career Clusters:  Resources for Teachers, Students, and Parents
• The Wisconsin Developmental Guidance Model
• The Educator Externship booklet explains, step-by-step, how to design, promote, and manage a K-12 Educator Externship program. It draws on the experiences of several successful externship programs across the state of Wisconsin. In addition, it provides samples of all forms which a district/consortium would need for implementing a program, and ideas for integrating SCAN competencies into the regular curriculum. For a free copy of the "Educator Externship" booklet contact: Ann Westrich, (608) 267-9251 ann.westrich@dpi.wi.gov

• Labor Market Information links
• Resources for Teachers, Students, and Parents

For more information about any of the material included in the Career Development section, contact Sharon Wendt, (608) 267-9251 sharon.wendt@dpi.wi.gov.

For questions about this information, contact Sharon W. Wendt (608) 267-9251

Last updated on 2/25/2008 1:28:38 PM