Chapter 14: All Students College & Career Ready Flashcards
Career assessment
Tools designed to help students understand how a variety of personal attributes (i.e., interests, values, preferences, motivations, aptitudes and skills), impact their potential success and satisfaction with different career options and work environments.
career awareness
Refers to students’ gaining knowledge of career paths and job opportunities while at school, and the skills and qualifications necessary to be successful in these positions.
Career counseling
The practice of guiding students in career exploration.
career development
The lifelong process of managing learning, work, leisure, and transitions in order to move toward a personally determined and evolving preferred future.
Career exploration
Process in which students choose an educational path or training or a job which fits their interests, skills and abilities.
career guidance
Refers to assisting students with career development.
career planning
Structured exercise undertaken to identify one’s objectives, marketable skills, strengths, and weaknesses, etc., as a part of one’s career management.
career plans
Guide students to make decisions about academic preparation, work experience, and the education and training necessary after high school to make successful transitions to the career path of their choice.
College and career readiness
The content knowledge, skills, and habits that students must possess to be successful in postsecondary education or training that leads to a sustaining career.
Computer Assisted Career Guidance Systems (CACGS)
Internet-based systems that deliver career awareness, exploration, and career planning across a broad range of student activities and experiences.
life span?life space
Suggests that career development evolves along a continuum from birth throughout the lifespan.
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
A psychometric questionnaire designed to measure psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions.
National Career Development Guidelines
A framework for building and evaluating comprehensive career development programs for youth and adults in a variety of settings.
self-directed search
That which is based on the theory of the relationship of personality to the work environments and is the basis for most of the career inventories in use today.
The Eight Components of College and Career Readiness Counseling
A systemic approach for school counselors to implement, across grades K?12 and beyond, to build aspirations and social capital and ensure equity both in process and results.
