12th Grade Smart Futures Requirements
What Are All These Activities About?
Activity 1: New Thinking About Career Success - Includes an introductory video and survey of self-perceptions of work
Activity 2: My Personality Type - Students take a personality type survey and connect the results with different careers
Activity 3: Job Application - Takes students through a mock job interview
Activity 4: Preparation for Career - Provides explanations and exploration of general career paths (college, workforce, etc.)
Activity 5: Abilities and Aptitudes - Assesses students' abilities, knowledge areas, and skills, connecting them with careers
Activity 6: Personal Interests - Students take an interest inventory and connect the results with different careers
Activity 7: Career Clusters and Pathways - Describes career clusters, connecting them to careers based on student answers
Activity 8: Experiencing Careers While Still in School - Provides explanation of options that expose students to careers
Activity 9: Selecting Your Career Goal - Allows students to search for careers based on a compilation of all previous results
Activity 10: My Programs or Majors - Allows students to go through careers and connect them to pathways to them
Activity 11: My School and College Survey - Searches for postsecondary paths based on a survey of educational desires
Activity 12: Job Interviews - Guides students through interviewing strategies, and provides a "mock" interview
Activity 13: Active Listening - Works in partners to assess students' active listening strengths and weaknesses
Activity 14: The Entrepreneur Within - Provides biographical looks at entrepreneurs and how they attained success
Activity 15: Personal Budget - Takes students through a sample budget and links to resources that estimate future costs
Activity 16: Multiple Intelligences - Assesses where students fall on the spectrum of 8 different types of intelligence
How Do I Access Smart Futures?
Go to Clever.com.
If you haven't already, find Lakeland Jr./Sr. High School, and connect using your Lakeland email address.
Click on the Smart Futures icon.
Navigating Smart Futures
Quick Links - You can easily pick up where you last left off, or view some other suggested content.
Who am I? - Click "Activities" to view a list of all available activities or "Skills" to test/improve certain career-ready skills.
Where am I going? - Explore the careers and clusters that your activity results produce, or search for specifics to learn about.
How do I get there? - Explore the programs/majors/schools/colleges that your activity results produce, or search for specifics to learn about.
My Plan/Portfolio/Badges - View/edit your career plan, add documents/reflections to your Portfolio, and view your badges.
Uploading An Artifact to Smart Futures
Throughout high school, you will do more career preparation than just what is done through Smart Futures. This will generally yield an artifact. An artifact is something that proves you completed some sort of growth, and includes some sort of reflection about the experience. Artifacts are not considered complete unless written reflection is completed as well! On Smart Futures, artifacts can be uploaded in the following categories:
Career-Pathway Experiences (Career Fair, College Fair, Campus Visit, Job Shadow, etc.)
Career Acquisition Documents (Résumé, Letter of Recommendation, etc.)
Future Ready Skills
Uploaded Artifacts (unrelated to any above category)
Art & Media (School Projects, Hobbies, etc.)
Honors and Awards (Academic or otherwise)
Test Score (PSAT, SAT, Keystone, etc.)
Extracurricular (Athletics, Clubs, etc.)
Work Experience
Community Service
School Work
How Do I Upload An Artifact to Smart Futures?