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Episode 22 Lessons In Adolescence Podcast Quick Listens

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These two Quick Listens are from Episode 22 in Season 2 of the Lessons in Adolescence podcast. Listen to more where ever you get your podcast or online at: https://education.virginia.edu/faculty-research/centers-labs-projects/youth-nex/remaking-middle-school/youth-nex-rms-podcast-page This episode features a conversation with three authors of “Career Exploration in the Middle Grades: A Playbook for Educators,” which was developed in partnership between the Association for Middle Level Education (AMLE) and American Student Assistance (ASA). Stephanie Simpson is CEO of Columbus, Ohio-based AMLE, which represents tens of thousands of middle level educators across the country and offers a variety of resources, training and convenings for the field. Ashley Hemmy is manager of program engagement at Boston-based ASA, a 60 year-old national nonprofit and student loan guarantor organization which has expanded its mission to develop and invest in resources and tools to help students as early as middle school to explore their long-term career and educational goals. Julie DiPilato is a seventh grade science teacher in Barnstable, Massachusetts, where she developed an array of career exploration programming in her school. Stephanie, Ashley, Julie and Jason talk about the career exploration playbook, how it came about, why career exploration is a perfect match for young adolescents and where it fits within schools. They then paint a picture of what career exploration looks like in the middle grades, how educators can use it to enhance their teaching, the ways AMLE and ASA are promoting the larger scale adoption of this practice, and the opportunities for career exploration in the field of education long-term.

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Author: Lessons in Adolescence

How 5 middle schools are giving students an early start on career exploration

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Experts say schools, government and industry need to work together more closely—and sooner—on career paths. Even high school is now too late to start comprehensive career exploration given the ever-evolving needs of the workforce. That’s why a growing number of middle schools are offering more robust career-connected learning so students can begin mapping out their future pathways.

Material Type: Reading

Author: Matt Zalaznick

Implement Career Exploration in Middle School: Here’s How

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Studies show middle school is the ideal time to let students try on new identities and step into real-world experiences. Every student deserves engaging career exploration to make learning relevant and open doors to future job possibilities! So, what does it take to broaden exposure to rewarding careers for students who are limited by location or circumstance? Download Stride Learning Solutions’ white paper, "Why Career Exploration Should Begin in Middle School—and How to Make it Happen" to learn four keys to a successful, virtual middle school career exploration program. This link will take you to the landing page, where you will need to fill in your contact information in order to access the white paper.

Material Type: Reading

Author: Stride Learning Solutions

Career Exploration in the Middle Grades

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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.

Material Type: Reading

Author: Association for Middle Level Education

Career Readiness - Middle School Math & Health Science Careers

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“In this lesson, students see that the principles and strategies they used to reason about scaled copies are applicable to scale drawings (MP7). For example, previously they saw scale factor as a number that describes how lengths in a figure correspond to lengths in a copy of the figure (and vice versa). Now they see that scale serves a similar purpose: it describes how the lengths in an actual object are related to the lengths on a drawn representation of it. They learn that scale can be expressed in a number of ways, and use scale and scale drawings to find actual and scaled lengths.” Students will apply their knowledge of scaled drawings to understand tasks associated with careers in the Health Sciences career pathway (page 28).

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Kayla Correll

Middle School ELA - Employability Skills

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This lesson plan is designed to enhance understanding and awareness of essential soft skills and employability skills for success in the workplace.Learning Goals:  Identify general job skills, attributes, and qualities associated with highly successful employees and undesirable employees.Define and know the difference between life skills, soft skills, career skills, and employability skills.Understand and apply job skills into the workplace.Identify personal job skills strengths and weakness.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Mary Maderich

Middle School Career Readiness - Blue Collar and Proud of It

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Students will identify jobs known as “blue-collar” and identify opportunities, advantages of these jobs, and explore labor market data.  Students will identify categories of jobs known as “blue-collar”.  Students will assess the opportunities and advantages of these types of careers.  Students will investigate labor market information and demand for occupations.

Material Type: Lesson

Author: Mary Maderich

Nature and the Earth

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Students brainstorm ways that they use — and waste — natural resources. Also, they respond to some facts about population growth and how people use petroleum. Lastly, students consider the different ways that engineers interact with and use our natural resources. Also meet Dustin Madden, an Iñupiaq and assistant science teacher in the Anchorage, Alaska, school district, in this video profile produced by WGBH. Madden explains the importance of developing a strong background in science and math in order to help preserve and protect the environment. He also discusses how his cultural upbringing has influenced him, and how he tries to reach out to students who have grown up in rural Alaska.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: Katie Feuerhelm