College and Career Prep

Tutor – Nichole Poe

Course Description

College and Career Preparation exists to prepare students for graduation, college, and career and all the systems that go along with that. This course includes a required job shadowing experience to explore and identify potential career paths. Additionally, students will be required to attend at least one college fair and participate in a college visit.

Topics Covered:
Professionalism in Communication
Identifying your transferable skills
Outcomes-based collegiate or career planning
Building critical and integrative thinking into future planning
The College process from Admission to Graduation
Personality Assessments
Analysis of Future Career Options

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

  • Identify and describe themselves and their unique gifts, talents, and abilities.
  • Utilize both traditional (face to face or verbal) and technology-based methods when
    researching different avenues for their future.
  • Have a basic knowledge of the collegiate system and how it operates.
  • Understand how they learn best and environments that are conducive to their
    success.
  • Employ appropriate tools and techniques to craft emails, and all other professional
    communication.
  • Define and document career options and majors that would be a good fit given their
    gifts, talents, and abilities.
  • Describe what they desire in their collegiate or career experience.

Required Texts

What Color is your Parachute for Teens (4th edition)
Author: Carol Christen
ISBN: 978-1984858627

The Truth about College Admission
Authors: Brennan Barnard & Rick Clark
ISBN: 978-1421447483

Prerequisites / Grade Levels

Students must be willing to engage in job shadowing, along with college visits and college
fairs. Above Freshman level

Difficulty Level

This course will be at an “average” difficulty level