What Is An Individual Career Plan?
| The Individual Career Plan (ICP) is a personalized plan to be developed by every student before completion of the eighth grade. It will be based on assessments of the student's interests and achievements and will be updated each year throughout high school. | |
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| What is the purpose of an Individual Career Plan? | |
| The ICP will help students focus on information that will enable them to establish appropriate goals. As students develop their ICP and receive guidance from parents, teachers, and counselors, they will be better prepared to make informed educational and career-oriented decisions as they approach the work world of tomorrow. | |
| Is an eighth grade student too young to decide on a career? | |
| The ICP will be a map that will help guide students through their high school years. The hope is to help students begin making decisions about the world of work and their part in it before they get to high school, and then continue to evaluate and process that plan throughout the next four years. | |
| How will the Individual Career Plan be developed? | |
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Students will be involved in a variety of activities to help them identify their interests and aptitudes. Some of the activities could include:
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| How will the ICP be used? | |
| Students will update their ICPs annually until they graduate from high school. A career folder, which documents all career-related experiences, will be maintained by each student. By the time the students graduate from high school, they will have produced a very valuable and unique document with clearly defined goals and a plan for achieving them. This document is intended to be a continuing aid as your child enters and advances in our rapidly changing world of work. | |
