Getting Real
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"Gray provides a systematic method for working with students to look at opportunities after high school in a realistic way."
—Mary Reeve, Director
Services for Exceptional Students
Help teens achieve success after high school through meaningful career development!
Without a realistic postsecondary strategy, more than half of students fail to graduate college or land rewarding jobs. Educators and parents can improve students' odds by encouraging them to develop the long-term initiative and commitment of a solid career plan.
This updated edition of Getting Real examines real-world occupational trends and projections to help teens gain "career maturity" and a sense of direction. The second edition has been expanded to address students with special needs and those at risk of dropping out, and includes a new chapter on understanding today's teens and parents. Offering a systematic, six-step plan for helping adolescents integrate youthful aspirations with economic realities, the author examines:
- The fundamentals of the labor market
- Myths and misconceptions that can limit students' choices
- Alternative options to a four-year degree
- Career exploration strategies and activities, such as job shadowing and work-study
Develop confident, clear-thinking teens who can make well-informed academic and career decisions about their future!
Contents
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Author
1. Getting Real: New Realities for Postsecondary Success
- A New Goal: Postsecondary Success
- Career Direction and the "Fourth" R
- Career Maturity and Career Direction
- Career Exploration Activities and Career Maturity
- Career Development Programs: Are They Effective?
- Society's Ambivalence About Career Choice
- The Role of Public Schools
- Making the Case for Career Development Programs
- Promoting Success
Part I. Understanding Those We Try to Help “Get Real”
- 2. Today’s Teens and Their Parents
- Today’s Teens
- Today’s Parents
- Promoting Success
- 3. Dropouts, Teens With Disabilities, and Graduates Seeking Full Time Employment
- Getting Real and High School Dropouts
- Getting Real and Special Populations
- High School Graduates Who Seek Full Time Employment
- Promoting Success
- 4. Creating Opportunities by Countering Stereotypes
- Occupational Stereotypes
- Gender Stereotypes and Earnings: Education or Occupation?
- Occupational Stereotyping: Minorities and the Economically Disadvantaged
- Promoting Success
Part II. Understanding Labor Market Fundamentals
- 5. Labor Market Misunderstandings and Bad Advice
- Misunderstanding 1: A University Degree Guarantees Access to High Wages
- Misunderstanding 2: A University Degree Guarantees Access to Professional Careers
- Misunderstanding 3: High Tech Careers Require a University Degree
- Misunderstanding 4: Career Planning Is Worthless Because People Change Jobs All the Time Anyway
- Misunderstanding 5: University Graduates Will Take All the Good Jobs
- Labor Market Advantage: The Secret to Getting High-Skill / High-Wage Employment
- Bad Advice Given to Teens
- Will Tentative Career Decisions Close the Door to Future Opportunity?
- Promoting Success
- 6. Occupational Projections, Technical and Middle Skill Employment
- I: Using Labor Market Information
- II: Occupational Projections
- III: The Other Way to Win: Technical and Middle-Skill Occupations
- A Selective List of Technical and Middle Skilled Occupations: This Is Rocket Science
- Promoting Success
Part III. Strategies to Promote Career Direction
- 7. Career Success, Decision Making, and Teens
- The Path to Career Success?
- Characteristics of a Career Mature Teenager
- Career Decision Making Anxiety of Teens
- Reducing Teen Anxiety Over Making Career Decisions
- Promoting Success
- 8. Strategies to Promote Adolescent Career Maturity and Direction
- Student Outcome Goals for Career Development Program
- Outcome Goal 1: Promoting a Tentative Career Direction While in the 10th Grade
- Outcome Goal 2: Verifying Tentative Career Directions
- Outcome Goal 3: Develop a Postsecondary Plan
- Providing Career Counseling
- Promoting Success
- 9. Considering “All” the Alternatives
- Traditional Formal Education Alternatives
- Alternatives to College
- The “Bridge” or “Prep” Year
- Promoting Success
- 10. Six-Step Plan for Postsecondary Success
- Talking to Parents
- Parents and Career Choice
- Six-Step Plan for Postsecondary Success
- Helping Parents With Difficult Choices
- Promoting Success
- 11. Getting Real and the Role of the Business Community
- Community Organizations
- Promoting Success
- 12. How Are Teenagers Best Served, Nutritional Lies or Reality?
- Nutritional Lies
- Creating Opportunity
- Five Premises for Success
- Well-Intended but Bad Advice Given to Teens
- Understanding Our Role
- Fighting the Good Fight
- References
- Index
Additional materials
Description
"Gray provides a systematic method for working with students to look at opportunities after high school in a realistic way."
—Mary Reeve, Director
Services for Exceptional Students
Help teens achieve success after high school through meaningful career development!
Without a realistic postsecondary strategy, more than half of students fail to graduate college or land rewarding jobs. Educators and parents can improve students' odds by encouraging them to develop the long-term initiative and commitment of a solid career plan.
This updated edition of Getting Real examines real-world occupational trends and projections to help teens gain "career maturity" and a sense of direction. The second edition has been expanded to address students with special needs and those at risk of dropping out, and includes a new chapter on understanding today's teens and parents. Offering a systematic, six-step plan for helping adolescents integrate youthful aspirations with economic realities, the author examines:
- The fundamentals of the labor market
- Myths and misconceptions that can limit students' choices
- Alternative options to a four-year degree
- Career exploration strategies and activities, such as job shadowing and work-study
Develop confident, clear-thinking teens who can make well-informed academic and career decisions about their future!
Contents
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Author
1. Getting Real: New Realities for Postsecondary Success
- A New Goal: Postsecondary Success
- Career Direction and the "Fourth" R
- Career Maturity and Career Direction
- Career Exploration Activities and Career Maturity
- Career Development Programs: Are They Effective?
- Society's Ambivalence About Career Choice
- The Role of Public Schools
- Making the Case for Career Development Programs
- Promoting Success
Part I. Understanding Those We Try to Help “Get Real”
- 2. Today’s Teens and Their Parents
- Today’s Teens
- Today’s Parents
- Promoting Success
- 3. Dropouts, Teens With Disabilities, and Graduates Seeking Full Time Employment
- Getting Real and High School Dropouts
- Getting Real and Special Populations
- High School Graduates Who Seek Full Time Employment
- Promoting Success
- 4. Creating Opportunities by Countering Stereotypes
- Occupational Stereotypes
- Gender Stereotypes and Earnings: Education or Occupation?
- Occupational Stereotyping: Minorities and the Economically Disadvantaged
- Promoting Success
Part II. Understanding Labor Market Fundamentals
- 5. Labor Market Misunderstandings and Bad Advice
- Misunderstanding 1: A University Degree Guarantees Access to High Wages
- Misunderstanding 2: A University Degree Guarantees Access to Professional Careers
- Misunderstanding 3: High Tech Careers Require a University Degree
- Misunderstanding 4: Career Planning Is Worthless Because People Change Jobs All the Time Anyway
- Misunderstanding 5: University Graduates Will Take All the Good Jobs
- Labor Market Advantage: The Secret to Getting High-Skill / High-Wage Employment
- Bad Advice Given to Teens
- Will Tentative Career Decisions Close the Door to Future Opportunity?
- Promoting Success
- 6. Occupational Projections, Technical and Middle Skill Employment
- I: Using Labor Market Information
- II: Occupational Projections
- III: The Other Way to Win: Technical and Middle-Skill Occupations
- A Selective List of Technical and Middle Skilled Occupations: This Is Rocket Science
- Promoting Success
Part III. Strategies to Promote Career Direction
- 7. Career Success, Decision Making, and Teens
- The Path to Career Success?
- Characteristics of a Career Mature Teenager
- Career Decision Making Anxiety of Teens
- Reducing Teen Anxiety Over Making Career Decisions
- Promoting Success
- 8. Strategies to Promote Adolescent Career Maturity and Direction
- Student Outcome Goals for Career Development Program
- Outcome Goal 1: Promoting a Tentative Career Direction While in the 10th Grade
- Outcome Goal 2: Verifying Tentative Career Directions
- Outcome Goal 3: Develop a Postsecondary Plan
- Providing Career Counseling
- Promoting Success
- 9. Considering “All” the Alternatives
- Traditional Formal Education Alternatives
- Alternatives to College
- The “Bridge” or “Prep” Year
- Promoting Success
- 10. Six-Step Plan for Postsecondary Success
- Talking to Parents
- Parents and Career Choice
- Six-Step Plan for Postsecondary Success
- Helping Parents With Difficult Choices
- Promoting Success
- 11. Getting Real and the Role of the Business Community
- Community Organizations
- Promoting Success
- 12. How Are Teenagers Best Served, Nutritional Lies or Reality?
- Nutritional Lies
- Creating Opportunity
- Five Premises for Success
- Well-Intended but Bad Advice Given to Teens
- Understanding Our Role
- Fighting the Good Fight
- References
- Index
Additional materials
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September 2008 | 216 pages | Corwin
| Format | Published Date | ISBN | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paperback | 28/04/2023 | 9781412963657 | $39.95 |
"Gray provides a systematic method for working with students to look at opportunities after high school in a realistic way."
—Mary Reeve, Director
Services for Exceptional Students
Help teens achieve success after high school through meaningful career development!
Without a realistic postsecondary strategy, more than half of students fail to graduate college or land rewarding jobs. Educators and parents can improve students' odds by encouraging them to develop the long-term initiative and commitment of a solid career plan.
This updated edition of Getting Real examines real-world occupational trends and projections to help teens gain "career maturity" and a sense of direction. The second edition has been expanded to address students with special needs and those at risk of dropping out, and includes a new chapter on understanding today's teens and parents. Offering a systematic, six-step plan for helping adolescents integrate youthful aspirations with economic realities, the author examines:
- The fundamentals of the labor market
- Myths and misconceptions that can limit students' choices
- Alternative options to a four-year degree
- Career exploration strategies and activities, such as job shadowing and work-study
Develop confident, clear-thinking teens who can make well-informed academic and career decisions about their future!
Table Of Contents:
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- 1. Getting Real: New Realities for Postsecondary Success
- A New Goal: Postsecondary Success
- Career Direction and the "Fourth" R
- Career Maturity and Career Direction
- Career Exploration Activities and Career Maturity
- Career Development Programs: Are They Effective?
- Society's Ambivalence About Career Choice
- The Role of Public Schools
- Making the Case for Career Development Programs
- Promoting Success
- Part I. Understanding Those We Try to Help “Get Real”
- 2. Today’s Teens and Their Parents
- Today’s Teens
- Today’s Parents
- Promoting Success
- 3. Dropouts, Teens With Disabilities, and Graduates Seeking Full Time Employment
- Getting Real and High School Dropouts
- Getting Real and Special Populations
- High School Graduates Who Seek Full Time Employment
- Promoting Success
- 4. Creating Opportunities by Countering Stereotypes
- Occupational Stereotypes
- Gender Stereotypes and Earnings: Education or Occupation?
- Occupational Stereotyping: Minorities and the Economically Disadvantaged
- Promoting Success
- Part II. Understanding Labor Market Fundamentals
- 5. Labor Market Misunderstandings and Bad Advice
- Misunderstanding 1: A University Degree Guarantees Access to High Wages
- Misunderstanding 2: A University Degree Guarantees Access to Professional Careers
- Misunderstanding 3: High Tech Careers Require a University Degree
- Misunderstanding 4: Career Planning Is Worthless Because People Change Jobs All the Time Anyway
- Misunderstanding 5: University Graduates Will Take All the Good Jobs
- Labor Market Advantage: The Secret to Getting High-Skill / High-Wage Employment
- Bad Advice Given to Teens
- Will Tentative Career Decisions Close the Door to Future Opportunity?
- Promoting Success
- 6. Occupational Projections, Technical and Middle Skill Employment
- I: Using Labor Market Information
- II: Occupational Projections
- III: The Other Way to Win: Technical and Middle-Skill Occupations
- A Selective List of Technical and Middle Skilled Occupations: This Is Rocket Science
- Promoting Success
- Part III. Strategies to Promote Career Direction
- 7. Career Success, Decision Making, and Teens
- The Path to Career Success?
- Characteristics of a Career Mature Teenager
- Career Decision Making Anxiety of Teens
- Reducing Teen Anxiety Over Making Career Decisions
- Promoting Success
- 8. Strategies to Promote Adolescent Career Maturity and Direction
- Student Outcome Goals for Career Development Program
- Outcome Goal 1: Promoting a Tentative Career Direction While in the 10th Grade
- Outcome Goal 2: Verifying Tentative Career Directions
- Outcome Goal 3: Develop a Postsecondary Plan
- Providing Career Counseling
- Promoting Success
- 9. Considering “All” the Alternatives
- Traditional Formal Education Alternatives
- Alternatives to College
- The “Bridge” or “Prep” Year
- Promoting Success
- 10. Six-Step Plan for Postsecondary Success
- Talking to Parents
- Parents and Career Choice
- Six-Step Plan for Postsecondary Success
- Helping Parents With Difficult Choices
- Promoting Success
- 11. Getting Real and the Role of the Business Community
- Community Organizations
- Promoting Success
- 12. How Are Teenagers Best Served, Nutritional Lies or Reality?
- Nutritional Lies
- Creating Opportunity
- Five Premises for Success
- Well-Intended but Bad Advice Given to Teens
- Understanding Our Role
- Fighting the Good Fight
- References
- Index