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Professional development is always a concern for school systems, but especially as new programs and mandates come along.
Over the past few years, the educational community has come face to face with new terms, new approaches, new opportunities, and new challenges. Students are asked to make sophisticated decisions about their future at a young age. With an emphasis on workforce readiness and economic self-sufficiency, a comprehensive guidance component is necessary for ALL students' success.
To assist you in providing overall quality training, we offer rousing and relevant workshops to meet your specific program objectives. Academic Innovations then presents a one- or two-day workshop at your chosen site.
Some of our workshop titles include:
• A Quick Tour of the Career Choices Curriculum
• Integrating Career Guidance into the Academic Classroom
• How to Integrate the Internet in the Academic Classroom
• Math, Career Guidance, and Technology: A Winning Combination
• Teaching Strategies and Techniques for the Career Choices Curriculum
• How to Integrate Career Choices into the English/Language Arts Classroom
• Ready, Set, Stay - In School! Building an Effective Advisor/Advisee Program
• Motivation: It's the Heart of Academic Achievement for ALL Students
• Put 'er There, Partner! Building Dynamic Parent-Student-Community Partnerships
Workshop Menu
Our workshops offer educators practical, proven classroom models , not just theory ! Workshop participants learn about an innovative classroom curriculum that is comprehensive yet easy to implement . These workshops will save you hundreds of hours of planning time.
Our workshops are ideal for:
- Classroom teachers and counselors responsible for developing comprehensive career and life planning programs
- Educators responsible for freshman orientation courses
- Language arts and math teachers interested in exploring applied academic curriculum
- Educators responsible for integrating academics with career oriented curriculum
- Career/Technical educators
- School-to-Career and Tech Prep coordinators
- Educators designing and implementing interdisciplinary thematic programs
- Administrators responsible for dropout prevention
- At-risk and special education program teachers and administrators
- School and district administrators looking for a proven curriculum with a strong track record
" Career Choices offers teachers unique and engaging ways of allowing students to explore career interests and opportunities while concurrently meeting life skills required of all students and productive workers. I commend these materials for use in high schools and/or community colleges...I particularly like that the curriculum is grounded in a specific academic discipline and that it is competency-based."
Dale Parnell
Author, The Neglected Majority
and Why Do I Have to Learn This?
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