The State of Ohio and Northview have identified the following career
clusters to make the process of choosing a career and planning for that
career easier for you:
Arts & Communication
Health & Human Services
Business & Management
Industrial & Engineering
Environmental & Agriculture
All occupations fall under these broad headings. Further, all of the career
clusters have different levels of employment, based most frequently on
education and/or training.
Professional careers require the most education or specialized training,
usually a four-year college degree or higher. Technical careers normally
require a two-year degree or specialized training. For a complete listing
of potential careers, see your guidance counselor.
The Career Pathway was created to provide a map to help you pursue your
chosen career. The maps identify a recommended schedule, electives directly
related to the career cluster, as well as other electives available to
help you reach your goal. More information about career pathways is available
through your guidance counselor.
By using the pathway in your career cluster provided you will be prepared
to take advantage of the tremendous number of opportunities within your
reach.
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CAREER PATHWAY HIGH SCHOOL
Just the facts
WHAT is a Career Pathway?
A Career Pathway is a system that creates well-marked “paths”
of sequenced courses that provide both focus and direction to a student’s
learning experience. The Pathway will connect the student to post-secondary
education and the world of work.
- It will prepare students for a goal-oriented future.
- It puts purpose in their learning.
- It will provide a resource for students to use in developing their
personal Education/Employment Development Plan.
- It is a system of CHOICE for each student.
WHY Career Pathways?
Why? Because some day your child will go to work. They may go to college
first. They may get advanced training in other ways. So, students need
to know what it takes to get there…and succeed.
The bottom line is that GOOD JOBS of the future will belong to people
with skills. In fact, the majority of good jobs will require far more
skills than students get with a high school diploma. Some may require
different skills than they get with a college degree.
The skills, attitudes, and behaviors needed by the working people of the
future include:
- Academic proficiency in communications, mathematics, science and
technology, problem solving, reading and understanding written material.
- Personal management skills such as decision making, doing one’s
best, acting honestly, setting and accomplishing goals, exercising self-control,
responsibility, organization, flexibility and initiative.
- Teamwork qualities demonstrated in listening, responding, contributing,
and leading.
HOW Does the Student Benefit?
Each student's Pathway prepares them to know what it takes to get a good
job. It:
- Helps students learn about emerging career opportunities
- Helps students see how school subjects relate to the world of work
- Challenges students to develop high academic skills
- Helps students examine interests, goals, and talents
- Opens students’ minds to the vast range of careers within their
chosen major
- Shows students the education and skills needed to get the GOOD jobs
- Builds self-esteem
- Helps students value education as a life-long process
WHAT is my Role as a Student?
Do everything you can to focus on your future!
- Study hard and do your best in school and extra-curricular activities
- Take advantage of every opportunity to learn about the real world
through job shadowing, work experiences, field trips, community service
and career speakers
- Talk to your parents and other adults about their jobs
- Go to school every day, on time, and with a good attitude - like
a job
- Learn - first hand - about as many different jobs, businesses, professions
as possible
- Participate in career and college fairs
- Talk to your counselors and teachers
WHAT is My Role as a Parent?
For your children’s sake, do everything you can to encourage and
support the Career Pathway system as a new way of thinking about delivering
education:
- Find out what your children are learning in school – ensure
that work readiness is part of the curriculum
- Work closely with your children’s teachers and counselors
- Encourage your children’s school to provide real-work experiences
through job shadowing, mentoring, work experience, field trips, tours,
speakers, and career resource centers
- Motivate your children to do their best in school and extra-curricular
activities
- Talk about your job
- Talk with friends and relatives about jobs and work when your children
are present
- Get involved in PTAs, school improvement teams and advisory boards
- Help your children appreciate the value of all work in our society
- Make sure your children go to school every day, on time, and with
a good attitude – like a job
- Give your children responsibility, beginning with jobs around the
house
- Explore with your children their personal talents, likes and dislikes
- Encourage your children to participate in college and career fairs
- Keep a sense of humor – be persistent about presenting opportunities
– but flexible in expectations
WHAT is my Role as an Educator?
For your students’ sakes, do everything you can to encourage and
support the Career Pathway system as a new way of thinking about delivering
education:
- Help your students see that the skills and knowledge they are developing
in school link up to a range of career options
- Talk to your students about work and career as a goal of education
- Provide real-work experiences through field trips, speakers, tours,
job shadowing, mentoring, work experience, etc.
- Learn about future trends in work and learning, and communicate them
to students and parents
- Help all students understand the need for advanced skills and education
for future work
- Help students appreciate the value of all work in our society
- Be prepared to counsel parents – help them see that a Career
Pathway system focuses their children for college and future employment
- Recognize and reward students for being in school every day, on time,
and with a good attitude – like a job
- Explore with student their personal talents, like, and dislikes
- Help your students learn –first hand – about as many different
jobs, businesses, and professions as possible
- Provide as many opportunities as you can for your students to use
technology
- Develop class projects where students research and learn about different
careers
WHAT is my Role as an Employer?
Whether you are a major employer or a small business owner, do everything
you can to encourage and support your school Career Pathway design:
- Collaborate with educators to develop an integrated curriculum focused
on broad skills and all aspects of industry including health, safety,
ownership and management
- Offer schools and students as many work-based learning experiences
as possible including tours, classroom speakers, mentoring, job shadowing,
paid and non-paid work experience, apprenticeships, and teacher internships
- Insist that schools perceive you as a customer of their “product”
- Spread the message throughout your company that school-to-work is
a smart strategy for future workforce development
- Recognize and reward one another for participating in school-to-work
activities
- Interact with teachers as peers and partners
- Serve on school improvement teams
- Talk about your job with your children
- Impress upon young people the importance of promptness and attendance
in successful careers
- When interviewing young people, ask to see their school portfolio,
attendance record, diploma
- Recruit others like you to participate
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