When developing your materials for Humboldt’s Hands-On Career Fair,
please keep this information in mind:
Demographic Information
67% of our students speak a language other than English at home
English 33%
Karen 33%
Spanish 14%
Hmong 5%
Somali 5%
Other 10%
English Language Academy site
Provides up to two years of intensive language support for new immigrant students
76% of the students qualify for the Free/Reduced Lunch Program
Significate number of students that are SLIFE (Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education)
Humboldt is a secondary school, so we have grades 6-12, with a approximately 1200 students
Humboldt students in grades 9 thru 12, and Open World Learning students in grades 11 and 12 will be attending the fair
Special Programs
Advanced Placement and College in the Schools courses are available in many subject areas.
Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID)
Deaf/Hard of Hearing Program
Welding Pathway
District's Career Pathway Program (High Wage & In-Demand Careers)
Science & Medical Pathway - Healthcare Careers
Arts & Human Services Pathway - Community Justice & Education
Business & Communications Pathway - Business
Innovative & Emerging Technologies Pathway - Evnironmental Engineering
Presentation Suggestions
A picture’s worth a thousand words.
Photographs can serve as important springboards for conversation and sharing content
Visuals/Objects help our students/families associate a concept with a word/concept easily and quickly
Students who see themselves in the “content” of your presentation retain what they have learned long term.
Inspiring questions
By using objects, you inspire questions from the students/families.
For example, without a flower in hand, a student/family member wondering, “What do you call the green part on the bottom of a flower?” would have to have the gumption to ask a long question and the grammar to make it happen.
With a flower in hand, the student can point and ask, “What’s that?” and communicate with only two words. Objects provide an alternative to questions with a lot of vocabulary, which can be helpful in some situations.
Real stuff and really useful words
By starting with a real object, there is a practical application for your vocabulary.
Speak a tad slower than you normally would
The majority of our students/families are listening to what you say, and then translating that content in their mind.
Adapted from USING OBJECTS WITH ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS by Jenny Wie, and Adapting School Programs to Serve English Language Learners by Cynthia Gertsen