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What is SmartFutures.org.mp4Shippensburg Area Senior High School Counseling Department is using SmartFutures.org, an online career plan and portfolio platform recently recommended by Pennsylvania Department of Education that is built using the Pennsylvania Academic Standards for Career Education and Work as a blueprint. Smartfutures.org provides an all-in-one Future Ready resource that includes K-12 artifact creation and uploading, student-focused Future badging, and PIMS monitoring and reporting which efficiently and developmentally meets our districts Future Readiness Index requirements. We welcome you to join in our excitement in this resource helping young persons “Get Real” about who they are, where they are going, and how to get there.
- The Academic Standards for Career Education and Work reflect the increasing complexity and sophistication that students experience as they progress through school. Career Education and Work Standards describe what students should know and be able to do at four grade levels (3, 5, 8 and 11) in four areas:
- 13.1 Career Awareness and Preparation
- 13.2 Career Acquisition (Getting a Job)
- 13.3 Career Retention and Advancement
- 13.4 Entrepreneurship
- Pennsylvania’s economic future depends on having a well-educated and skilled workforce. No student should leave secondary education without a solid foundation in Career Education and Work. It is the rapidly changing workplace and the demand for continuous learning and innovation on the part of the workers that drive the need to establish academic standards in Career Education and Work.
Career Awareness:
Career Awareness:
Relates Careers to individual interests, abilities and aptitudes
Analyze the relationship between career choices and career preparation opportunities
Review personal High School plan in light of current personal career goals and select post-secondary opportunities based upon personal career interests
Career Acquisition:
Career Acquisition:
Apply effective speaking and listening skills used in a job interview
Apply research skills in searching for a job
Develop and assemble, for career portfolio placement, career acquisition documents
Analyze, revise, and apply an individualized career portfolio to chosen career path
Demonstrate the application of essential workplace skills/knowledge in the career acquisition process
Career Retention & Advancement:
Career Retention & Advancement:
Evaluate personal attitudes and work habits that support career retention and advancement
Evaluate team member roles to describe and illustrate active listening techniques
Evaluate conflict resolution skills as they relate to the workplace.
Develop a personal budget based on a career choice
Evaluate time management strategies and their application to personal work situations
Evaluate strategies for career retention and advancement in response to the changing global workplace
Evaluate the impact of lifelong learning on career retention and advancement
Entrepreneurship: (An entrepreneur is a person who identifies a need and starts a business to fill that void)
Entrepreneurship: (An entrepreneur is a person who identifies a need and starts a business to fill that void)
Analyze Entrepreneurship as it relates to personal character traits
Analyze how entrepreneurship relates to personal character traits through the ongoing development of the career portfolio
Develop a business plan for an entrepreneurial concept
With the Completion of the assigned Smartfutures.org Activities students will have mastered all Four Strands of the Career Education and Work Standards:
With the Completion of the assigned Smartfutures.org Activities students will have mastered all Four Strands of the Career Education and Work Standards:
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