Why: Ensure that all students have access to career exploration and preparation activities that are standards-aligned and evidence-based.
Context: Pennsylvania will be monitoring the percentage of students who demonstrate meaningful engagement in career exploration and preparation and implementation of individualized career plans through separate, specific measures based on grade-level benchmarks aligned to the Pennsylvania CEW Standards.
Documentation must include student portfolios and/or graded student artifacts resulting from classroom instruction and records of student data. Monitors may request to see lesson plans/curriculum, K-12 guidance plans, agendas from events aligned to CEW standards, scoring guides/rubrics, and/or other applicable evidence to support the reported data.
What: Students must have at least
- six artifacts in a Career and Education Work Portfolio in grades 3-5.
- the original artifacts from grades 3-5 plus six new artifacts in a Career and Education Work Portfolio in grades 6-8
- This must include an individualized career plan.
- the original artifacts from grades 3-5 and 6-8 and eight new artifacts in a Career and Education Work Portfolio in grades 9-11.
- This must include an individualized career plan.
Those artifacts must accomplish teaching in learning in the four Career and Education Work Standards.
- Career Preparation
- Career Acquisition
- Career Retention and Advancement
- Entrepreneurship
Standards
PA Academic Standards for Career Education and Work
Resources
I Can Statements
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