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Hello Juniors!

Please logon to a computer and go to the DHS home page

• Click Student Services
• Click Counseling Services
• Click the Naviance

login link

NAVIANCE – Family Connection

• Enter your ID number in the

Username field.

• Enter your birthday in the

Password field – it is the month, then day, then year. (March 28, 1997=03281997)

• Click the Log In button.

NAVIANCE – Home Page

NAVIANCE – junior pre-test

DO WHAT YOU ARE

Finding the Right Career Path and Educational Plan for the Person You Are

DO WHAT YOU ARE

• Identifies Student strengths

and areas that students need to address (possible weaknesses)

• Factors for career satisfaction
• Preferred learning style
• Potential careers and majors

for student

NAVIANCE – Do What You Are

DO WHAT YOU ARE

Extraversion Characteristics - E

• Prefer to communicate verbally
• Outgoing and action-oriented
• Learn best by doing or talking
• Have many friends and

acquaintances

• Enjoy sharing ideas at gatherings
• Need external stimulus and input

Introversion Characteristics - I

• Prefer to communicate in writing
• Private and inwardly focused
• Learns best through thinking and

processing

• Have a select circle of friends
• Need time alone to re-energize self
• Appear to be good listeners

How we interact with the world & Where we direct our energy

Sensing Characteristics - S

• Focus on what is here and real
• Observe and easily recall data and

specifics

• Gain understanding through hands-
• n experience
• Tend to be factual and concrete

Intuition Characteristics - N

• Attuned to possibilities in the future
• Are concerned with meanings and

patterns in information

• Trust “gut” feelings and inspiration
• Tend to be imaginative and creative

The kind of information we naturally notice and remember

DO WHAT YOU ARE

Thinking Characteristics - T

• Value logic
• Use cause-and-effect reasoning
• Objective, striving for what’s fair
• Critical and analytical

Feeling Characteristics - F

• Value compassion
• Consider effects of their decisions on

people

• Seek to maintain harmony
• Softhearted and empathetic

How we make decisions

DO WHAT YOU ARE

Judging Characteristics – J

• Value organization
• Methodical and disciplined
• Decisive and need closure
• Prefer to make plans

Perceiving Characteristics - P

• Flexible and adaptive
• Tend to be spontaneous
• Prefer to be open to change
• Prefer to keep their options open

Whether we prefer to live in a more structured or in a more spontaneous way

DO WHAT YOU ARE

ISTJ

Doing what should be done

ISFJ

A high sense of duty

INFJ

An Inspiration to

• thers

INTJ

Everything has room for improvement

ISTP

Ready to try anything once

ISFP

Sees much but shares little

INFP

Performing noble service to aid society

INTP

A love of problem solving

ESTP

The ultimate realists

ESFP

You only go around

• nce in life

ENFP

Giving life an extra squeeze

ENTP

One exciting challenge after another

ESTJ

Life’s administrators

ESFJ

Hosts and hostesses of the world

ENFJ

Smooth talking persuader

ENTJ

Life’s natural leaders

DO WHAT YOU ARE

Circle your 4 letter code on the Green Folder for reference!

ISTJ ISFJ INFJ INTJ ISTP ISFP INFP INTP ESTP ESFP ENFP ENTP ESTJ ESFJ ENFJ ENTJ

ISTJ

Slytherin

ISFJ

Slytherin

INFJ

Ravenclaw

INTJ

Ravenclaw

ISTP

Ravenclaw

ISFP

Hufflepuff

INFP

Hufflepuff

INTP

Ravenclaw

ESTP

Gryffindor

ESFP

Gryffindor

ENFP

Gryffindor

ENTP

Gryffindor

ESTJ

Slytherin

ESFJ

Hufflepuff

ENFJ

Hufflepuff

ENTJ

Slytherin

Turn off your monitors and turn your attention to the front of the room!

Just for Juniors

Preparing for Your Senior Year and Options After High School

DHS Counselors

A-D (10th -12th) – Jari Peltier E-L (10th -12th) – Kathleen Ashton M-R (10th - 12th) – Justin Fields S-Z (10th – 12th) – Doretha Hudspeth Freshmen – Chris Lydia IB Coordinator – Beth Hughes Career Counselor – Kim Keith Student Assistance Counselor – Jennifer Mize

Juniors…

Today you will:

• Review credits and classes needed to graduate
• Discuss your career and/or college plans
• Look at upcoming testing
• Work in Naviance – see checklist

And now for the future…

Are YOU on track to graduate next year?

• English

4

• Math

4

• Science

4

• Social Studies

4

• PE

1

• World Language 2
• Speech

.5

• Fine Arts

1

• Electives

5.5

Total = 26

Have an * on your transcript?

You missed too many days of school. Contact your assistant principal – NOW!

What are my choices beyond high school?

 College  Community College  Employment  Military Enlistment http://www.military.com/

 U.S. Military Academies  ROTC Programs at College

 Trade and Technical Schools

EDUCATION IS THE KEY!!!!

Interested in the Military?

• Sign up to take the

ASVAB test

• See Mrs. Keith in the

Career Center

TEST DATE – December or January

First – Before making choices, know yourself and the reasons behind your choices!

• Recognize your strengths and weaknesses
• Be realistic about your future choices
• Use the resources that have been given to you

 Do What You Are  Career Scope Information  Family  Friends  Teachers  Counselors

Why College?

People who attend college tend to:

• Be less prejudice/more open-minded
• Be more knowledgeable of the world around them
• Be better communicators
• Have better health (as well as their children)
• Contribute more time and money to charitable causes
• Be more likely to vote
• Be reflective
• Have higher levels of saving money
• Have increased personal/professional mobility
• Provide improved quality of life for their offspring
• Make better consumer decisions

Money

How do I choose???

Consider College Characteristics

• Majors/educational programs
• Size (big school/small school)
• Degrees offered
• Admission policy
• Public or Private
• Location (far/close to home)
• Campus activities
• Support services
• Costs and financial aid

List, Compare, and Research

Compile information from several resources

• College Websites in Naviance
• Internet websites
• College representatives
• NORTEX COLLEGE FAIR (every fall)
• Reps visiting our campus (pay attention to the

announcements)

• Counselors and teachers
• Alumni
• Denton Graduates in college
• College and Career Center

Research Some More then Visit

Prepare a college comparison checklist

• See a sample on the back of your Jr. checklist

Contact the office of admissions Schedule appointments for your campus visits

If visiting during a DHS school day, you must notify the attendance office prior to the college visit. Ask the attendance

• ffice

about the required documentation to excuse the absence.

College Entrance Exams

ACT or SAT

• You don’t have to take both
• Use your PSAT scores to make an

informed decision about which one to take.

• 99% of all colleges and universities

will accept either test

• You should take it for the first time

in the spring of your JUNIOR year.

• If you are on Free or Reduced lunch,

you can get a waiver to take the test for free.

Use your brain! Plan ahead!

Develop a plan to finance Your education!!!

 Loans – You have to pay these back.  Scholarships & Grants – Free money! You do not have to pay these back.  Savings  Work

FAFSA

There’s no magic lab, you just gotta do it!

• You must fill out a Free

Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) in January or February of your senior year.

• This is how the government and

colleges determine how much money you will receive in Grants and Financial Aid.

• Why do we tell you about it now?

So you can PLAN AHEAD !!!

• Junior Information Presentation
• A time for students and parents to get info about

PSAT scores/AP Potential and SAT/ACT prep classes

• SAT Boot Camp – March 2014
• All day Saturday event to prep for taking the SAT

Spring Semester Events:

Merit : Based on GPA, Class rank, activities, interviews, leadership, autobiographical statement, test scores, letters of recommendation, essays Need: Based on Financial situation – information gathered from the FAFSA Miscellaneous: Unusual scholarships typically sponsored by private companies and are meant for anyone wanting to go to college.

Types of Scholarships??

Note - There are very few scholarships available to juniors, but plan ahead for the senior year by checking out resources now!

• There are scholarships out there for every type of student seeking a college
• education. Colleges look for students who have the potential to complete a 4

year degree and not drop out.

Scholarship Resources

 Naviance Family Connection  Fastweb.com  Scholarship.com  Parents’ work places  Individual colleges

Beware of scams!

Warning--Charge a fee Warning--A “money-

back” guarantee

Warning--Requests for

your credit card or bank account

Warning--We will do all

the work for you

Calling All Athletes!

If it is your hope/plan to play in college you must register with the Eligibility Center during the Spring of your Junior year. http://www.eligiblilitycenter.org

You can also see Mrs. Peltier for more specific information.

Why do my counselors, teachers and parents want me to take all these hard courses? I’m going to a community college first.

“The open admissions policies of community colleges leads many high school students to believe they need not prepare for college. The result is that nearly two-thirds of all entrants take

• ne or more remedial course and nearly half do

not persist to their second year of study.”

Be sure your senior year schedule is rigorous.

Don’t goof off… What college professors have noticed:

“Students are showing up to college underestimating how much work they have to do…” “More than 90 percent expect grades of B or better, most of them study less than their professors think they should and many of them never take advantage of tutoring services available on campus…” “’Typically, students will goof off in high school and say, ‘Well, when I get to college I’m going I’m going to get to work,’” Brown (TCU professor) said. ‘Well, guess what? Your mind doesn’t grow overnight.”

published in the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram Posted Monday November 7, 2005 by Patrick McGee

What can I be doing now???

 Check out college websites  Visit with college/military reps who come to DHS  STUDY for the SAT or ACT exams and register to take them beginning in the spring of your junior year  Begin planning payment options for post high school  Visit the DHS career center  Consider scheduling college visits

Useful Websites...

• collegefortexans.com
• fastweb.com
• collegeboard.com
• actstudent.org

Others we like... fafsa.ed.gov princetonreview.com nacac.com applytexas.org Compendium of Texas Colleges and Financial Aid

See Jr. Checklist handout

NAVIANCE – Home Page

Scroll Down

NAVIANCE – Update Email

Click on the pencil and enter an email that you check regularly!

NAVIANCE – Check GPA & RANK

Scroll down to bottom of page

NAVIANCE – DWYA Results & What To Do Next

Scroll down

NAVIANCE – College Super Match

Starting Your Resume

NAVIANCE – junior guidance post test

Thank You!!!

If you have any additional questions or Need Help, please come to the counseling office and request to see your counselor!