Session 1:
“Blending” and “Flipping” Your Career Choices Classroom
Delve into the mixed-up world of blended learning and gain practical strategies for “flipping” your Career Choices instruction when appropriate. We’ll cover a variety of hints for managing a hybrid (part textbook-based, part web-based) comprehensive guidance course, and you’ll leave understanding pedagogical theory supporting hybrid learning so you can help create buy-in for integrating technology into your Career Choices course.

Session 2:
CareerChoices.com and LifestyleMath.com: Tools Designed to Grow with Your Students—Even Once They’re Not Your Students
Many state and commercial web-based tools use fixed assessments and surveys that paint decision-making as magical. Just a few quick clicks of the mouse and (poof) “You should be a butcher…a baker…a candlestick maker.” This session begins by exploring CareerChoices.com, a dynamic web portal where students experience real-world research tools that support their career and life decision-making process without usurping it. Then the session will focus on cutting-edge math. No, not the theoretical mathematics NASA’s supercomputers play with, but the kind of practical, everyday math and financial literacy that every student needs and we’ll explore the online tool that makes teaching it realistic. You’ll look at budgeting from a slightly different perspective while experiencing some instructional techniques you might want to employ in your own classroom.

Session 3:
My10yearPlan.com: Set-up, Management, and Reporting
This hands-on session will be a lot more exciting than it sounds. Promise. You’ll learn about each of the different levels of My10yearPlan.com® access, understand who can do what within the system, discover tricks for getting student accounts set up quickly, and explore new resources for supporting your students’ experience with My10yearPlan.com®.

Session 4:
My10yearplan.com® ESSENTIALS
Get online and experience the various optional resources and reports available with this progressive educational tool. Even if you are currently using My10yearPlan.com®, you’ll learn about some of the newest additions to this online enhancement.

Session 5:
My10yearPlan.com® INTERACTIVE
Step into your student shoes for this hour and we’ll jump feet-first into the online enhancement that incorporates all 100 activities in Career Choices. Join the CAST (Critical and Strategic Thinkers) as they help propel you through this organic decision-making process.

Session 6:
Level Up! Accessing the Get Focused…Stay Focused! ® Modules on My10yearPlan.com®
Using students’ 10-year Plans as the foundation, targeted classroom-based lessons in 10th, 11th, and 12th grades ensure that students stay focused on their goals. The three Get Focused…Stay Focused! ® modules provide “touch-points” to help them effectively plan and seamlessly transition to their post-secondary goal. This session explores the Get Focused…Stay Focused! ® levels of My10yearPlan.com® and the activities that will help students build the skills needed to take advantage of technology advancements in learning.

Session 7:
From an Instructor’s Perspective: Advice for Career Choices Teachers from Career Choices Teachers
Attendees from several Institutes will be treated to a very special panel discussion exploring freshman transition classrooms that work. This panel of Career Choices instructors will share some of the insights they've gained, techniques they've honed, and strategies they've implemented successfully in their own classrooms.