[YL] teens::career development

[Hawkins Roger (DOL)]

Hi!  We have had great success with the COIN a web based career management system. There is career assessment, exploration, college search, resume builder, portfolio builder Info is at www.coin3.com  Also, The National Life/Work Center has helped to distribute The Real Game.  Real Game is a role play and simulation game over the course of several weeks, about 22-25hours, that has kids take on a new character and go through the process of independent living, going to post secondary training or college or not, getting a job, losing a job, changing careers, etc.  Its awesome and kids love it.  It's flexible so that you can intersperse parts of the game with other lessons.  www.realgame.org  I like Real Game because it makes all of the career development work relevant.  I find that career education, by itself without a context and clear connections drawn with other parts of their life, teens often find to be a big yawn.  Real Game also makes the rest of their academic subjects, especially math, very useful and relevant.  National Life/work Center also puts out Smart Options, a multiple intelligences assessment for careers.  Jist Works is a career education publisher which puts out a lot of appropriate career curriculum materials www.jist.com They publish Pathfinder which we have not used in its entirety but have taken pieces of it.  Hands on stuff is really important, like as many site visits to local firms as possible.  I'm really glad that you are doing this as so very little of this work is done.  Good luck!

Roger Hawkins
New Castle County Coordinator
Delaware High School High Tech
(302) 761-8275/ (302) 377-3132
Empowering youth with disabilities to achieve their career dreams


-----Original Message-----
From: youthlearn-bounces at milhouse.edc.org [mailto:youthlearn-bounces at milhouse.edc.org] On Behalf Of matt crichton
Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 2:57 PM
To: galaxy at lincboston.org; youthlearn at phoenix.edc.org; random at cambridgevineyard.org
Subject: [YL] teens::career development

hi there

I'm going to the ymca leaders school in august (a retreat center in silver 
bay, NY)...and will be doing a career development workshop with teens.
ARe there any career development resources you have found helpful in your 
work with teens? (web sites/books?)
how would you approach tthis?
I know I could just present the info..but I would rather teens actually have 
some fun with this.
any thoughts appreciated!

thanks.
matt



==================================
Matt Crichton
CyberY Developer
YMCA Boston/Training, INC.
18 Tremont St.; Suite 400
Boston, MA  02108
617-542-1800 x32
mcrichton at ymcaboston.org
bigchainring at hotmail.com
Cyber Y:
http://www25.brinkster.com/ymcaboston/index2.htm
Personal: http://www20.brinkster.com/bigchainring/index.htm
AmeriCorps VISTA 2000-2002 (Seattle, Boston)

"Know that the love which blooms inside you is stronger than fear,||
for people who love find strength they didn't know they had.||
Know that the love inside you is stronger than illness,||
for people who love hang in when physical health is gone.||
And know that love is indeed stronger than death,||
for people who love are like stones tossed into a pool.||
The circles of love radiate out and echo back||
long after the stone has come to rest on the bottom."||
Rev. mark DeWolfe


* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
YouthLearn (http://www.youthlearn.org) brings together youth professionals to share information on using technology to create exciting learning environments. YouthLearn was created by the Morino Institute (http://www.morino.org) and is now an Initiative at the Education Development Center (http://www.edc.org). We hope this list assists you in your efforts to make a difference in the lives and potential of young people. 

Tips:
* To post a message to this group, send an email to: YouthLearn at mailman.edc.org

* To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list or to change your list information, visit http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/youthlearn
http://www.youthlearn.org/join/subscribe.html

* Search the YouthLearn archives at http://mailman.edc.org/pipermail/youthlearn/

* To contact the list facilitator, send an email to: info at youthlearn.org