Getting Real

Helping Teens Find Their Future

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

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"Gray provides a systematic method for working with students to look at opportunities after high school in a realistic way."—Mary Reeve, DirectorServices for Exceptional StudentsHelp teens achieve success after high school through meaningful career development!Without a realistic postsecondary strategy, more than half of students fail to graduate college or land rewarding jobs. Educators and parents can improve students′ odds by encouraging them to develop the long-term initiative and commitment of a solid career plan.This updated edition of Getting Real examines real-world occupational trends and projections to help teens gain "career maturity" and a sense of direction. The second edition has been expanded to address students with special needs and those at risk of dropping out, and includes a new chapter on understanding today′s teens and parents. Offering a systematic, six-step plan for helping adolescents integrate youthful aspirations with economic realities, the author examines:The fundamentals of the labor market Myths and misconceptions that can limit students′ choicesAlternative options to a four-year degree Career exploration strategies and activities, such as job shadowing and work-study Develop confident, clear-thinking teens who can make well-informed academic and career decisions about their future!

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2008-10-23
Mått:152 x 228 x 12 mm
Vikt:340 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:216
Upplaga:2
Förlag:SAGE Publications Inc
ISBN:9781412963657

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Kenneth C. Gray is a professor in the Workforce Education and Development Program at Pennsylvania State University. Prior to joining the faculty at Penn State, he was superintendent of the Vocational Technical High School System in Connecticut and has been a high school English teacher, guidance counselor, and administrator. He has published widely and is frequently quoted in the national press. He is coauthor with Edwin Herr of Workforce Education: The Basic. His latest book, Getting Real: Helping Teens Find Their Future, addresses the importance of helping teenagers develop career direction as a prerequisite to postsecondary success. He holds a BA in economics from Colby College, an MA in counseling psychology from Syracuse University, and a doctorate in technical education from Virginia Tech.

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"I applaud the author’s efforts in promoting a shift from the ′one way to win′ stance toward that of helping students face reality and develop career goals that will help them be successful."

Innehållsförteckning

Preface to the Second EditionAcknowledgmentsAbout the Author1. Getting Real: New Realities for Postsecondary SuccessA New Goal: Postsecondary SuccessCareer Direction and the "Fourth" RCareer Maturity and Career DirectionCareer Exploration Activities and Career MaturityCareer Development Programs: Are They Effective?Society′s Ambivalence About Career ChoiceThe Role of Public SchoolsMaking the Case for Career Development ProgramsPromoting SuccessPart I. Understanding Those We Try to Help “Get Real”2. Today’s Teens and Their ParentsToday’s TeensToday’s ParentsPromoting Success3. Dropouts, Teens With Disabilities, and Graduates Seeking Full Time EmploymentGetting Real and High School DropoutsGetting Real and Special PopulationsHigh School Graduates Who Seek Full Time EmploymentPromoting Success4. Creating Opportunities by Countering StereotypesOccupational StereotypesGender Stereotypes and Earnings: Education or Occupation?Occupational Stereotyping: Minorities and the Economically DisadvantagedPromoting SuccessPart II. Understanding Labor Market Fundamentals5. Labor Market Misunderstandings and Bad AdviceMisunderstanding 1: A University Degree Guarantees Access to High WagesMisunderstanding 2: A University Degree Guarantees Access to Professional CareersMisunderstanding 3: High Tech Careers Require a University DegreeMisunderstanding 4: Career Planning Is Worthless Because People Change Jobs All the Time AnywayMisunderstanding 5: University Graduates Will Take All the Good JobsLabor Market Advantage: The Secret to Getting High-Skill / High-Wage EmploymentBad Advice Given to TeensWill Tentative Career Decisions Close the Door to Future Opportunity?Promoting Success6. Occupational Projections, Technical and Middle Skill EmploymentI: Using Labor Market InformationII: Occupational ProjectionsIII: The Other Way to Win: Technical and Middle-Skill OccupationsA Selective List of Technical and Middle Skilled Occupations: This Is Rocket SciencePromoting SuccessPart III. Strategies to Promote Career Direction7. Career Success, Decision Making, and TeensThe Path to Career Success?Characteristics of a Career Mature TeenagerCareer Decision Making Anxiety of TeensReducing Teen Anxiety Over Making Career DecisionsPromoting Success8. Strategies to Promote Adolescent Career Maturity and DirectionStudent Outcome Goals for Career Development ProgramOutcome Goal 1: Promoting a Tentative Career Direction While in the 10th GradeOutcome Goal 2: Verifying Tentative Career DirectionsOutcome Goal 3: Develop a Postsecondary PlanProviding Career CounselingPromoting Success9. Considering “All” the AlternativesTraditional Formal Education AlternativesAlternatives to CollegeThe “Bridge” or “Prep” YearPromoting Success10. Six-Step Plan for Postsecondary SuccessTalking to ParentsParents and Career ChoiceSix-Step Plan for Postsecondary SuccessHelping Parents With Difficult ChoicesPromoting Success11. Getting Real and the Role of the Business CommunityCommunity OrganizationsPromoting Success12. How Are Teenagers Best Served, Nutritional Lies or Reality?Nutritional LiesCreating OpportunityFive Premises for SuccessWell-Intended but Bad Advice Given to TeensUnderstanding Our RoleFighting the Good FightReferencesIndex