Career development interventions 5th by spence niles and bowlsbey chapter 11

Career Development Interventions
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Spence G. Niles and JoAnn E. Harris-Bowlsbey

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Chapter 11
Career Development
Interventions in Middle Schools

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Developmental Tasks of Middle
School
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Achieve new and more sophisticated relations with peers

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Achieve emotional independence from parents and other adults

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Set vocational goals

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Prepare for marriage and family life

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Develop skills for civic competence

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Developmental Tasks of
Middle/Junior High School
continued

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Acquire a set of values and an ethical system as a guide to
behavior

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Set realistic goals and make plans for achieving these goals

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Career Development in Middle
School
• Career assistance provided to middle school students
must be sensitive to the contextual, physical, and
emotional transitions that students experience
• Akos, Konold, and Niles (2004) found that middle school
student exhibit distinct patterns of needs regarding their
readiness for career decision making: from career
indecisions to premature career identity foreclosure
• Data from the National Assessment of Education
Progress indicate that adolescents experience mixed
success in coping with the career development
tasks they confront in middle schools

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Middle School Student Attitudes

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Currently 93% of middle school students report that their goal is
to attend college;

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Only 44% eventually attend college, and

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Only 26% graduate with a college diploma within six years of
enrolling (Conley, 2012)

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ASCA National Standards
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Acquire skills to investigate the world of work in relation to
knowledge of self and to make informed career decisions

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Employ strategies to achieve future success and satisfaction

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Understand the relationship between personal qualities, education
and training, and the world of work

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Career Development Goals for
Middle School
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Enhance self-understanding

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Learn how to engage effectively in education and occupational
exploration

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Career Planning

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Career Development Goals for
Middle School Students
(cont.)

• Herr, Cramer, and Niles (2004) offer four career planning
considerations for middle school school students.
 1. Provide students with a broad opportunity to explore their
personal characteristics as well as those educational options
 2. Provide a wide array of methods to accommodate
differences due to career maturity, interests, values, and
abilities
 3. Provide concrete hands-on direct experiences
 4. Provide career programs to help students explore their
feelings, needs, and uncertainties as they search for a
personal identity.

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Career Development Interventions
in Middle Schools
• Thematic consideration of middle school-level
career development competencies reveals the
importance of students acquiring the necessary
knowledge, skills, and understanding to
advance in their career development
• Important to help students understand issue
related to equity and access to career choice
• Interventions should help students construct
their ideal future life and then discuss how
prepared they feel for taking on those future
tasks
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Career Development Interventions
in Middle School
(continued)

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Psychoeducational activities for middle school students include:

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Classroom guidance lessons on careers and personal identity

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Job shadowing

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Attending career fairs

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Occupational Information Interviews

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Small groups

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Exposure to real world work experiences

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Career Development Interventions
in Middle School
(continued)

• Clustering systems can be used to guide career
exploration by using the clusters to organize career
information resources.
• Patterns of life-role salience can be addressed by
helping student reflect on the various life roles they
have or they can create a life-role portfolio
• Middle school students need assistance in career and
educational planning.
• An educational and career planning portfolio is one
technique that school counselors can use to help
middle school students plan effectively.

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National Association of State Directors of Career
Technical Education Consortium (2015) Clusters
• Agriculture, Food, and Natural

Resources
• Architecture and Construction
• Arts, A/V Technology, and
Communications
• Business Management and
Administration
• Education and Training
• Finance
• Government and Public
Administration
• Health Science

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Hospitality and Tourism
Human Services
Information Technology
Law, Public Safety,

Corrections, and Security
Manufacturing
Marketing
Science, Technology,
Engineering, and
Mathematics
Transportation,
Distribution, and Logistics
 

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