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Getting Real
Helping Teens Find Their Future
Second Edition
- Kenneth Gray - Pennsylvania State University, USA
Other Titles in:
Career Guidance | Teaching Methods & Learning Styles | Teaching in Secondary Schools
Career Guidance | Teaching Methods & Learning Styles | Teaching in Secondary Schools
October 2008 | 216 pages | Corwin
Help ALL teenagers to define realistic goals, develop career direction, and find their future! This revised edition of the bestseller offers educators a six-step plan for helping all students and their parents develop alternative plans for post high school success that may or may not involve a college degree. Getting Real compares the disparity between students' preconceived beliefs and aspirations and the new economic and labor markets they will face as adults, and calls on educators to improve the odds for every young person. Emphasizing the importance of exploring all options, the updated second edition covers critical topics such as:
occupational race and gender stereotypes
updated labor market projections that highlight technician-level careers and new middle level skill occupations
the strong link between academic maturity, career direction, and postsecondary success
the unique career development needs of potential dropouts and of high school graduates who go to work.
Preface to the Second Edition
Acknowledgments
About the Author
1. Getting Real: New Realities for Postsecondary Success
Part I. Understanding Those We Try to Help “Get Real”
2. Today’s Teens and Their Parents
3. Dropouts, Teens With Disabilities, and Graduates Seeking Full Time Employment
4. Creating Opportunities by Countering Stereotypes
Part II. Understanding Labor Market Fundamentals
5. Labor Market Misunderstandings and Bad Advice
6. Occupational Projections, Technical and Middle Skill Employment
Part III. Strategies to Promote Career Direction
7. Career Success, Decision Making, and Teens
8. Strategies to Promote Adolescent Career Maturity and Direction
9. Considering “All” the Alternatives
10. Six-Step Plan for Postsecondary Success
11. Getting Real and the Role of the Business Community
12. How Are Teenagers Best Served, Nutritional Lies or Reality?
References
Index
"I applaud the author’s efforts in promoting a shift from the 'one way to win' stance toward that of helping students face reality and develop career goals that will help them be successful."
Bryan High School, OH
"Stresses the need for career maturity. This is one of the few books that addresses this topic so well."
Smethport Area High School, PA
"This book is a must-read for those involved in developing futures planning for students in ninth grade through their exit from high school into adult life."
Murray School District, UT
“Gray provides a systematic method for working with students to look at opportunities after high school in a realistic way.”
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