The middle grades are a natural time for self-exploration and self-directed learning. The concrete ideas presented in this guide for how to infuse career exploration in both developmentally and academically meaningful ways are exciting for the opportunity they provide to transform the way educators approach schooling in the middle grades. Whereas educators sometimes associate career education as a narrower, vocational curriculum, this playbook highlights ASA’s more expansive view of career exploration – an opening up of students’ worlds rather than a narrowing into particular tracks.
- Subject:
- Career and Technical Education
- Material Type:
- Reading
- Author:
- Association for Middle Level Education
- Date Added:
- 02/23/2023