At South Effingham Middle School, we offer a variety of opportunities for students to explore different occupational pathways and career options. Throughout the students' years at SEMS, students can explore diverse connections classes, PBLs, and interdisciplinary lessons that highlight the discovery aspect of many careers.  Several of our connection classes support the GaDOE Career, Technology, and Agriculture Education (CTAE) which consists of various program concentrations of Career Pathways that have been developed for students to select and complete.  

The connection classes that support CTAE:

The SEMS School Counseling Department provides career lessons for grades 6th through 8th grade. The Georgia Department of Education requires that the BRIDGE (Building Resourceful Individuals to Develop Georgia's Economy) law be followed each year to help educate students in their career development. We use a program called Youscience that helps students identify careers based on aptitudes and natural abilities, and how they relate to specific careers. In 6th grade, students complete the Youscience Snippet, which is an interest inventory. This activity helps identify their top three types of work (social, artistic, realistic, conventional, investigative, or enterprising). In 7th grade, students continue to use Youscience and complete the career aptitude inventory. The students complete 6 brain games that will help identify their natural abilities and aptitudes. In 8th grade, students continue to use Youscience with their career development skills. We go over their career interest and career aptitude inventory results. Students can research different careers from the aptitude inventory results. We encourage students to search for education requirements, annual salary, job descriptions, and prospective job growth.