Welcome to Sophomore Student and Parent Night!! Successful Transitions What Do You Need to Know?

Welcome to Welcome to Sophomore Sophomore

Student and Parent Student and Parent Night!!Night!!Successful TransitionsSuccessful Transitions

What Do You Need to Know?What Do You Need to Know?

Goals for TonightGoals for Tonight

Overview of our upcoming career Overview of our upcoming career unitunit

Five or Six GatewaysFive or Six Gateways Interest InventoriesInterest Inventories Why are we having this conversation Why are we having this conversation

now?now?

Your mission…Your mission…

Parents in this room Parents in this room Students in CafeteriaStudents in Cafeteria Please have a conversation and list Please have a conversation and list

the knowledge, skills and abilities the knowledge, skills and abilities students will need to have to be students will need to have to be successful in the “real world” successful in the “real world” workforce.workforce.

Expectations of theExpectations of theStudent GroupStudent Group

(discussion based on notes)(discussion based on notes)

Expectations from the Expectations from the Parent GroupParent Group

(discussion based on notes)(discussion based on notes)

Similar expectations…Similar expectations…

TeamworkTeamwork CommunicationCommunication

OralOral WrittenWritten

CollaborationCollaboration

CreativityCreativity Information Information

TechnologyTechnology Critical Problem Critical Problem

SolvingSolving

Did You Know . . .

The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that

today’s learner will have 10-14 jobs . . .

By the age of 38.

According to the U.S. Department of Labor .

. .

1 out of 4 workers today is working for a

company they have been employed by for less

than one year.

More than 1 out of 2 are working for a company they have worked for less than five years.

According to former Secretary of Education

Richard Riley . . .

The top 10 in-demand jobs in 2010 didn’t

exist in 2004.

We are currently preparing students for

jobs that don’t yet exist . . .

Using technologies that haven’t been

invented . . .

In order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet.

So What’s the Point?So What’s the Point?

While the job market is ever While the job market is ever changing, the skills necessary to be changing, the skills necessary to be competitive and successful in the competitive and successful in the work place will remain the same.work place will remain the same.

Necessary SkillsNecessary Skills

Critical Thinking/Problem SolvingCritical Thinking/Problem Solving Oral CommunicationsOral Communications Written CommunicationsWritten Communications Teamwork/CollaborationTeamwork/Collaboration DiversityDiversity Information Technology ApplicationInformation Technology Application LeadershipLeadership

Necessary SkillsNecessary Skills

Creativity/InnovationCreativity/Innovation Lifelong Learning/Self DirectionLifelong Learning/Self Direction Professionalism/Work EthicProfessionalism/Work Ethic Ethics/Social ResponsibilityEthics/Social Responsibility

Taken from “Are They Really Ready to Work?” (The Conference Board, Partnership for 21st Century Skills, Corporate Voices for Working Families, Society for Human Resource Management) CR 2006