May. 11, 2009 - Career Exploration for High School

Over the last few days it’s been interesting reviewing a few of these “we-E books”.  The last one I chose to review was, “Career Exploration for High School Students”.

Old Schoolhouse site listing for this one reads, “Carol Topp has written this WeE-book™ as an easy-to-understand guide to exploring potential professions for anyone, but especially for your teenager.”  From that description I thought it might be a great thing to hand to my 8^th (almost 9^th) grader and have it give him some idea’s.  For that purpose it missed the mark in my opinion.

It’s more of a recounting of how she taught a group of students and the tools (for purchase) that she used.  If you were looking at doing a co-op on career choices, or looking into the “YES” guide she recommends as a resource, this might give you some good direction.  As a parent if you’re looking for resources she recommends several books to read as well as surveys that would be very helpful.

Her advice to use a 4 step plan in your exploration is excellent.  It could easily be tailored into some assignments for your teens in evaluating careers. 

It's useful for sure but not quite what I thought from the description.

Gina