Florida

Two-Day Workshops for the Career Choices Curriculum

Explore new frontiers in education, exchange ideas, evaluate approaches, and learn how to develop plans and create the kind of models that work best in your school, for your students.

While the training revolves around the Career Choices curriculum, you'll also have an opportunity to focus on project-based learning techniques, team teaching tactics, curriculum integration models, and dropout prevention strategies.

You'll learn how to:

• Successfully teach Career Choices and adapt it to meet your classroom goals
• Integrate career and life planning thematically into the academic classroom
• Motivate students with relevant exercises and activities
• Help 8th/9th grade students make a successful transition into high school
• Build interdisciplinary teams that work
• Use the Internet to enhance your student achievement
• Tap into special funding opportunities and community resources
• Help students see the impact their high school education has on their future

  

The Key to Dropout Prevention: How to Implement a Freshman Transition Course in the 8th or 9th Grade

The daily news is full of information about the nation's dropout problem.

We know you already understand the problem; this workshop provides you with practical and proven solutions!

You'll gain incredible insights as you discover resources to ensure the success of your dropout prevention program. You'll also receive a set of the nationally-acclaimed Career Choices curriculum. Providing a comprehensive, step-by-step course with exemplary scope and sequence, Career Choices guides students through a process that culminates in the development of a personalized 10-year career-inclusive education plan.

This workshop provides answers to some of your toughest dropout prevention questions.

• What does research tell us about dropout prevention efforts?
• What makes 13 and 14 a critical dropout prevention age, not only for impacting high school attrition rates, but also college completion and life satisfaction?
• What is classroom-based comprehensive guidance and why is it such a successful dropout prevention strategy?

You'll learn all of this and more at this exciting professional development workshop.