KELSEY AUGSTNORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL COUNSELOR

ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE, 2008

With All Your Powers, What Will You Do?

Objectives for Today

You will be able to: Identify benefits of

strengths based counseling

Discuss and share career related strengths based school counseling units and lessons

Implement strengths based career activities immediately

How Will We Meet The Objectives?

Presentation Outline Icebreaker &

Introduction Strengths Based

School Counseling Curriculum Action

Plan Results Report and

Reflections Future

Recommendations & Audience Ideas

What are YOUR powers?

Career Development

Self-Concept Development (Super)

Exploration Oriented towards gender and social valuation (Gottfredson)

Relationship between school and work (ASCA)

Self-Efficacy (Social Cognitive Career Theory)

(Niles & Harris-Bowlsbey, 2005)

Strengths Based School Counseling

Promoting positive development

Student strengths and competencies

Incorporating contextual factors

Effect on motivation and self-efficacy

(Galassi & Akos, 2007)

Unit Objectives

The students will be able to: Identify personal powers, or strengths, interests, and

skills Describe how what they are learning now will help in

future careers Explore a variety of careers through student research,

presentations, and discussion Discuss traditional and nontraditional occupational

choices and identify how gender can affect career choices

Research technology resources to obtain career information

Present researched information to peers

Curriculum Action Plan

Grade Level Guidance Lesson Content

ASCA Domain/Standard

Curriculum and Materials

Projected Start/End Date

Projected Number of Students Affected

Lesson Will Be Presented in

Which Class?

Evaluation Methods: How

Will The Results Be Measured?

Implementation Contact Person

4 What is My Power?

Identifying strengths, skills,

and interests

Career Development

Domain: C:A1.3NCDG Personal Social Domain:

PS1.K2

Music Video, What Is My Power

Activity Sheet

Feb.2008

March2008

107 Homeroom Classroom

Pre/Post Assessment,

Review of Activity Sheets

Kelsey Augst, school counselor

Developing My Power

Linking school to work

Career Development

Domain: C:C1.1

Developing My Power Activity

Sheet, Developing My Power Poster

Pre/Post Assessment,

Review of Activity Sheets

Kelsey Augst, school counselor

Using My PowerResearching and writing about a

career

Career Development

Domain: C:B1.5NCDG Career Management

Domain: CM3.K5, CM3.A2, CM4.K3

Using My Power Activity Sheet,

Career Research Sources: Paws in

Jobland (www.cfnc.org), Career Critters, Young Person’s

Occupational Outlook

Handbook, People At Work

Pre/Post Assessment,

Review of Activity Sheets

Kelsey Augst, school counselor

Sharing My PowerCareer presentation

sharing

Career Development

Domain: C:B2.1

Power Posters per student, Snacks,

Homemade Costumes

Pre/Post Assessment,

Review of Activity Sheets, Informal

Teacher Interviews

Kelsey Augst, school counselor

With All Your Power, What Will You Do?

Lesson Activities

•My Powers

•Developing My Power (Sitsch & Senn, 2005)

•Using My Power (Caryl, 2005)

•Sharing My Power

Children's ResourcesChildren's Resources Counselor’s ResourcesCounselor’s Resources

Paws in Jobland www.cfnc.org

Young Person’s Occupational Outlook Handbook, US Department of Labor

People At Work: A Student’s A-Z Guide to 350 Jobs, Early Start Career Series

Making the Link: Helping Children Link School

Habits With the World of Work, Lisa King

Puzzle Pieces: The Classroom Guidance Connection, Diane Senn & Gwen Sitsch

Career Resources

Evaluation MethodsPre and Post Assessment

(King, 2005)

Strongly Agree

Agree Disagree

Strongly Agree

I can identify the strengths I have that would help me in my career.

I can describe how what I am learning in school now will help me when I have a career.

I am aware of different careers at which I would be good.

It doesn’t matter if I am a boy or a girl because I can choose any career I want.

I know how to use computers to learn more about different careers.

Evaluation MethodsActivity Sheets

Results Report

Grade Level Guidance Lesson Content

Standards, Competencies,

Indicators Addressed

Number of Guidance Lessons

Delivered in What Class or

Subject

Start Date End Date

Process Data (Number of

Students Affected)

Perception Data (Pre and post

test competency attainment or student data)

Results Data (How did the

student change as a result of the

lesson?)

Implications (What do the

data tell you?)

4 What is My Power?

Identifying strengths, skills,

and interests

Career Development

Domain: C:A1.3NCDG Personal Social Domain:

PS1.K2

1 lesson during 4th grade technology

time periods

Feb.2008

March2008

107 100% agreed on posttest that they

could identify personal strengths

Students were able to identify personal

powers

The 4th grade students showed

growth in all areas of career

understanding surveyed.

Developing My Power

Linking school to work

Career Development

Domain: C:C1.1

1 lesson during 4th grade technology

time periods

86% agreed on posttest that they can relate school

curriculum to future work

Students named ways that future jobs would use what they were

learning in school

Results data from student work shows that all students were

engaged in class activities.

Using My PowerResearching and writing about a

career

Career Development

Domain: C:B1.5NCDG Career Management

Domain: CM3.K5, CM3.A2, CM4.K3

2 lessons during 4th grade technology

time periods

89% agreed on posttest that gender

does not impact career choice

100% agreed on posttest that they are able to use the internet to research

careers

Students used technology to

explore careers. Students chose a

particular career to research and write about. Students wrote detailed

information about careers.

The results from the pre and post

tests show that the lessons were

effective in helping students to identify personal strengths, use technology for

career research, and in build career

awareness.

Sharing My PowerCareer presentation

sharing

Career Development

Domain: C:B2.1

1 lesson during 4th grade technology

time periods

100% agreed on posttest that they

are aware of different careers

Students presented their career

research and listened to their

peers.

Students need further guidance on connecting

school to work and recognizing gender biases in careers.

So… What Did We Learn?

Success Stories!

Next time…Reflections

Future Recommendations

Some ideas from other career counselors: Used in older grades,

up through college and with adults

Photographs of students and career choices

Audience thoughts and ideas?

Resources

Caryl, M. (2005). Challenging Gender Traditions in Careers. Retrieved October 31, 2008 from http://schoolcounselor.org/rc_files/67/GenderInCareersLesson.pdf.

Galassi, J. & Akos, P. (2007). Strengths-based School Counseling: Promoting Student Development and Achievement. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

King, L. (2005). Making The Link: Helping Children Link School Habits With the World of Work. Chapin, SC: Youthlight, Inc.

Niles, S.G., & Harris-Bowlsbey, J. (2005). Career Development Interventions in the Twentieth Century, 2nd Ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc.

O’Brien, K.M., Bikos, L.H., Epstein, K.L., Flores, L.Y., Dukstein, B.D., & Ngondi, A.K. (2000). Enhancing the career decision making self-efficacy of upward bound students. Journal of Career Development, 26(4), 277-293.

Sitsch, G., & Senn, D. (2005). Puzzle Pieces: The Classroom Guidance Connection. Chapin, SC: Youthlight, Inc.

Thank you for your participation!

Contact Information: Kelsey Augst, Hilburn Drive Elementary kaugst@wcpss.net www.ncdg.org, Career Convergence (June article) http://www.schoolcounselinghilburndrive.weebly.com,

Student Resources, With All Your Power What Will You Do? music video link