Goal setting is powerful and critical life skill. Goals allow us to turn our vision of the future into our reality. Goals provide us short-term direction and long-term vision.

To set big life goals, we must first dream big and create a list of all the things we would like to see, do, and accomplish throughout our lifetime. From there, we can set small goals that are measurable and achievable. Then, we get to work!

Goals can be integrated into all areas of our life. We can strive to be more successful in our classes, faster on the court, or active every day. Goal setting is about making ourselves better, happier, and healthier.

For the rest of the school year, we are going to set goals related to our academic success, personal well-being, and career preparation. When we set our goals, we want to be sure that we are working towards something we want to ACHIEVE and simply make ourselves better. Self goals are in fact goals to better ourselves NOT the people around us. Remain true to you!

In this 60-minute lesson, students will be able to:
- Analyze the value of a college education
- Identify the common costs associated with going to college
- Role-play making decisions regarding their college career using the Payback game

I can identify post secondary options of entering the workforce, completing an adult apprenticeship, military service, technical college, four year college public, four year college private. (review from 7th grade-discovering pathways)
I can explore district pathway maps.
I can explore careers of interest that require a high school diploma, technical college certificate, degree, and/or 4 year college

I can complete my ILP/4 year plan including information I have explored in previous ACP lessons including: academic and personal strengths, Career Clusters and Courses of interest, personal data analysis, and goal setting.

In this Xello interactive lesson, you’ll explore your feelings about post-secondary education and will rank the factors that are most important to you when selecting technical or 4-year colleges/universities that are a good fit for you.  You will rank these factors and will compare how the colleges that you have saved in your profile stack up to what you feel is most important.  

In preparation for opportunities to network and interview for jobs, it is important to prepare a brief summary of yourself relevant to your experiences, interests, and short and long term career goals.  This summary is often referred to as an “elevator pitch.”  Creating an elevator pitch is useful for every post secondary plan and can be used when talking with employers and military recruiters, and it can a framework for a more detailed personal statement often used on a college or scholarship application!  

Students will need to use their knowledge of a quality resume to discover a good, bad and ugly resume found online.  This will help students look for key components of communication which are expected to belong on a quality resume. 

The purpose of this activity is for students to complete a half or full day job shadow in the chosen career field, interview, and submit reflection paper.

JOB SHADOW INTERVIEW QUESTIONS Student Name: Date of Job Shadowing Experience: Occupation/Profession being shadowed: Name of person being shadowed: Place of employment being shadowed: Years employed in occupation: Years/months employed in current job: What does your company do? What is your job title? What skills are needed to do your job? How did your education help prepare you for your job? Did your company do any additional training for you to perform this job? How did you get your job? What process was involved (testing, interview...)? What personality traits and attitudes are important? What related jobs did you have before this job? What is your work schedule (flexible, nights, specific hours...)?

Students will be able to:

-Identify what things colleges are looking for when evaluating applicants
-Discuss the purpose of a high school transcript and how they’re affected by Honors, AP, and IB courses
-Create a 4-square that helps them plan their high school activity

Lesson Length: 60 mins

Students will be able to
Reflect on what they’ve learned about the path(s) they might want to pursue after high school
Set a goal for where they would like to be one year after graduating high school for a path they might pursue
Create a timeline of steps they will need to take to reach their goal

• I can add work-based learning opportunities available through my school that I am interested in pursuing to the Career Goals on My Plan
• I can add part-time work experiences that I will pursue during high school to the Career Goals on My Plan

• I can review three career profiles in My Saved Options and will record how I feel about these saved careers
• I can identify factors that I like and dislike about these jobs

Students will need to plan out a short term, mid-term, and long term SMART goal.  They will need to label each portion of their goal with the appropriate letter from the acronym SMART.  Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic and Timeline. 

Today we’re going to start exploring career pathways. A career pathway map helps students by providing a bridge from high school career components to the post-secondary options you just learned about such as the military, 2- or 4-year colleges, or working full time right after high school. Even though you aren’t in high school yet, it’s important to know what type of options you will have once you get to high school. Following a career pathway map can help you determine the courses you should take, the co-curriculars you might join, and the certifications you can achieve to give you a big jump-start to your career.

In 8th grade, you may have completed a 4-year plan to prepare for high school. If so, you probably already have it uploaded to your Storyboard. If not, you can open the document attached and make your own copy. In this lesson, you'll be reviewing and updating your 4-year plan.

In this Xello interactive lesson, you will consider which education or training is best for you. If you haven’t decided what to do yet after high school, a good place to start is by looking at your interests, strengths, and favorite subjects.

In this lesson, you will be adding to the Experiences section of Xello which will be used later for the following purposes:completing 4 year college applications, completing scholarship applications, and/or completing your resume. 

Academic and Career Planning (ACP) is a part of Wisconsin’s Education for Employment (E4E) program outlined in s. 121.02(1)(m) Wis. Stats., and is sometimes referred to as (administrative rule) PI26. In this guide, we refer to the plan that is required by administrative rule to be published annually by school districts as your “ACP/E4E Plan.”This guide is intended to help school districts understand all the legal requirements prescribed as part of the E4E/ACP plan. Table 1 outlines the required components and provides potential activities and resources that will help districts meet the requirements.