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About College and Career: College and Career Connection
In This Lesson: Students will demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between interests/strengths and career.
Over the past several years, a team of organizations worked together to create the College & Career Knowledge Project, consisting of digital handouts compiled into a workbook designed to support college and career education planning. Full workbooks can be ordered through the 12th Year Campaign, and digital copies are also available.
Access the most up-to-date College and Career Knowledge materials on this website.
To compliment the materials, we have created lessons for each section in the workbook. These lessons contain specific content, a short activity, and resources from the workbook. Educators are able to make their own copy of each lesson and edit it to include specific details about their school and community. Each lesson should take about 20-30 minutes to be delivered during core-content or advisory class.
Access the most up-to-date month-to-month College and Career Knowledge lessons by grade level on this document.
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About College and Career:
College and Career Connection
College and Career Knowledge Materials
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Why a Degree or Credential?
Those with a college degree earn $1 million more over their lifetime compared to those with only a high school diploma (Khan Academy, 2014).
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$254,488
$77,636
$51,584
$36,816
$55,016
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What Education does my Dream Job Require?
Major: Group of courses required by a college in order to receive a degree (e.g. chemistry, accounting).
Certificate: Issued in a specific subject area (e.g. Certified Nurse Assistant or Information Technology Support).
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You can choose from hundreds of related majors and certificates!
Liberal Arts Majors
If you are interested in Literature, Philosophy, History, and Languages - these majors may be a good fit. These can open doors to all kinds of jobs across different industries. Some jobs might require additional schooling.
Includes English, World Languages, Political Science, Psychology
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Examples of Liberal Arts Careers
Some examples include:
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Career-oriented Majors or Certificates
With these, the focus is on developing particular skills and knowledge for specific careers. Some examples of where we see these are:
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Don’t Know What You Want to Do?
Think about your interests! Take a career interest survey and explore career clusters:
Research:
Get experience!
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Do Your Research!
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