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Path Ways to College and Career Readiness Workshop SeriesJunior YearWorkbookIntroduction: This workbook has been designed as support material for the 11th Grade College and Career Readiness Workshop Series. At the end of each of the monthly workshops you will be given an assignment to complete before the prior to the next workshop. The assignments are contained within this workbook. Please use your Individual Learning Plan, as well as the Choose Your Future and What’s Next Illinois Web Sites to assist you in completing your assignments. (insert Log In Instructions for each Web Site) The Road Map- Workshop 1In the first workshop you were asked to envision your future. The homework for this assignment relates to the vision that you have for your future and creating a plan to achieve your vision.Due date for this assignment as stated by your instructor: __________________Access Choose Your Future or What’s Next Illinois to complete this assignment:Using the School Finder, explore your post-secondary options.Use the High School Planning Timeline to make sure that you are on track for graduation/ and that you know what classes that you have to take to be eligible for the school/college/job that you are choosing. In the What’s Next Illinois System Edit your set of planning milestones, to include your goals, and time frames, give it a name, “Your Name Jr. Year Milestones” and bring it to the next workshop.Name two careers that you are interested in:________________________________________________________________Using your on line resources, find two post secondary schools that provide training or an education in your chosen career options:__________________________________________________________________Look at the High School educational requirements for those schools. Are you on track to meet the requirements?YesNoIf you answered “no”- what do you need to do now to get on track? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Create or edit your planning milestones in “What’s Next Illinois” to make sure that you are on track for your goals. Bring Your plan to the next workshop. Be able to answer these questions:What area of study interests you?Are you on track to meet the graduation requirements?Did you submit the plan on line?This is a screen shot of the What’s Next Illinois “Plan of Study” you can easily track your college and career goals by creating an account. If you are choosing a technical career path, that option can be explored through Choose Your Future. Your Next Move- Workshop 2In the second College and Career Readiness workshop you were encouraged to prepare several items for your chosen career path. The homework for this assignment relates to creating the toolkit that you will need as you engage in achieving your vision.Due date for this assignment as stated by your instructor: __________________Use a chronological calendar (one that you create yourself, or you can use the What’s Next IL Planning Calendar) for your Junior year. State what tests, and certification exams that you plan to take, and what dates they are offered.Go back to your homework assignment from Workshop 1. In that assignment you chose 2 schools that offer post secondary training or education in your career choices.List those schools again, and then look up how much it will cost to attend that school per year:School: ________________________________Cost:________________________________School: ________________________________Cost:________________________________The cost of post secondary education is substantial. Looking at the annual cost to attend your chosen schools, list how you plan to pay for your post secondary education:______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Is there anything that you should be doing right now to prepare for paying for your post secondary education? Look at your calendar. What should you add? Are there application deadlines for financial aid or scholarships? If so, add those dates to your calendar?Finish your “elevator speech” that you started in the workshop. Polish what you say and how you say it. Practice, practice, practice. You will need your elevator speech for job shadowing, job interviews, writing college essays and other opportunities. Bring a copy of your finished speech to your teacher. Remember that an elevator speech is a short (15-30 second, 150 word) sound bite that succinctly and memorably introduces you. It spotlights your uniqueness. It focuses on the benefits you provide. And it should be delivered effortlessly. Go on-line, print the applications for your chosen post secondary education, training or career provider. Add deadlines to your calendar and familiarize yourself with what you will have to do in order to complete the application by the deadline. Will you need references? Does it require an essay? Would a referral be helpful? Add these items to your plan. How to Write an Effective Resume- Workshop 3In the third College and Career Readiness workshop you discussed all of the aspects of writing an effective resume. The homework for this assignment is to create your resume. Due date for this assignment as stated by your instructor: __________________There are many on-line templates available to assist you in creating a resume. You can use the resume template on What’s Next Illinois, or any other site that you choose. Make sure that you save your resume and that you can easily access the document to add your experiences and to tailor it for your needs. Remember the key elements to an effective resume are: Highlight what you can contribute for a given job application and customize your resume according to the needs of the job as well as including your related experiences. Resume should not be more than two pages and it must furnish enough and related information as well as include the skills that match with the application. Explain your value with the help of your education, relevant skills, achievements, and experience. Resume should be well formatted and informative so that it can grab the attention of a reader.Consistency enhances overall readability and a reader can go through a resume easily Proof read a resume many times, and then have someone else proof read it for you. PRE- Work Workshop 4 Job Shadow Dress RehearsalIn the fourth College and Career Readiness workshop we ask you to do pre-work before your job shadow day. Your Job Shadow Dress Rehearsal, due date for this assignment as stated by your instructor: __________________(insert the CPS CTE Pre-work from file CTE Job Shadow Dress Rehearsal Pre Work Assignment) ................
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