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PREPARING FOR YOUR FUTURE

Graduation & Post-Secondary Planning Class of 2022

Student Interest Survey

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Counseling Department

• Counselors:

■ Ms. Carpio Garcia (Mrs. Vlahakos’ sub) ■ Ms. Castaneda ■Ms. Flores ■ Ms. Pérez ■ Mr. Rebello ■Ms. Wilde

• Guidance Informational Specialists:

■ Mayra Melchor Sanchez, Giulia Solari, & Jerri Port

• College & Career Center:

■ Ms. Ignaitis - Advisor ■ Mr. Kamp - Assistant

Agenda:

○ Career Exploration ■ Why does it matter? ■ Career Interest Profiler - Naviance ■ Understanding & making sense of your Holland Code results ○ Review ■Graduation & A-G Requirements

Why the emphasis on College and Career Readiness?

• Explore your interests through the Career Interest

Profiler and learn about jobs that match your personality.

• Education pays.
• You will be working for the vast majority of your

lifetime; have options & choose wisely.

Real life skills that employers are looking for in recent college graduates:

Education Pays 2013 For detailed data, see: trends.collegeboard.org.

WHAT ARE HOLLAND CODES?

• Holland Codes are

personality types.

• People who choose to

work in environments that are related to their personality type are more likely to feel success and satisfaction.

Your results, “Holland Codes” will look like this:

1) Go to: www.sequoiahs.org 2) Click on Naviance Icon 3) Log-in to Naviance username: Student ID password: First Initial, Last Initial, 6 digit birthdate

NAVIANCE ACTIVITY INSTRUCTIONS

Naviance Home Screen

Click on “Careers & Clusters I’m Thinking About”

Click on “Career interest profiler”

CAREER INTEREST PROFILER

1) Read & answer each question a) You have about 30 minutes to complete the Career Interest Profiler 2) Explore your results using O*NET a) Complete the Career Exploration Worksheet

Career Exploration Using O*NET

Go to this website: www.onetonline.org

• 1. Click on Interests
• 2. Holland Codes
• 3. Careers

Group Activity

Get in groups of 4 and answer the following questions:

• What are some of the examples of careers

that group members found?

• Do you think your codes sound like you?
• From your results, what was the most

unusual or unexpected career? Select one group member to share out to the entire class.

REVIEW: Graduation & A-G Requirements

Graduation & A-G Requirements

Subject SUHSD Graduation UC & CSU College Required A-G List* UC & CSU College Recommended A) Social Studies 3 ½ Years

(35 credits)

2 Years 2 Years B) English 4

(40 credits)

4 4 C) Math 2 (Alg. & Geom.)

(20 credits)

3 Alg 1, Geom, Alg II 4 D) Science 2 1 Lab Science

(20 credits)

2 2 Lab: Biological & Physical Science 3 E) World Language 2 3 to 4 F) Visual/Performing Art 1

(10 credits)

1 1 Career Technical Ed. 1

(10 credits)

Physical Education 2

(20 credits)

Life Skills 1/4 Year

(2.5 credits)

G) Elective 62.5 Credits 1

Credits and Courses

Credits: You need 220 credits minimum for graduation

• If you take six classes this year and pass all, how

many credits will you have in June 2020?

• If you multiply 60 credits by 4 years = 240!
• F grades don’t give you credits
• D & F grades don’t count for A-G college

requirements

• 7 classes & school sports give you additional

credits

• Attendance matters

+Understanding your GPA’s

Cumulative Weighted: Includes all courses ■ Honors courses calculated w/ 5.0 scale ■ Regular courses calculated w/ 4.0 scale Cumulative Unweighted: Includes all courses ■ All courses calculated using 4.0 scale CA Cal Grant GPA: 10th & 11th grade courses ■ Unweighted ■ Excludes PE and remedial courses ■ Aim for 3.0 or higher = Free $ for college, dependent on family income Weighted 10-12 A-G GPA: ■ Includes only 10th-12th grade courses with a -P or -HP next to the course title

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CREDIT RECOVERY

Cyber High forms are provided to students by their counselor ○ D grade in a required A-G course must be repeated for 4 year college eligibility ○ F grade in required High School course must be repeated for graduation and/or A-G eligibility ○ Pick-up a cyber high application today from your counselor, you do not need to wait until the summer. What other options are there for credit recovery?

Extra-Curricular Activities & Involvement

• Remember that test scores, GPA, and grades are not

everything that colleges & scholarship organizations are considering when reviewing your applications.

• What other things can you be doing to stand out in

the college admissions process?

• Keep track of all your activities, involvement, work

experience, etc. on your Naviance résumé.

Resources to research Colleges & Careers

• O*NET
• College Board: Khan Academy for SAT Prep
• College Board: Big Future
• California Career Zone
• collegedata.com
• University & College websites
• Naviance: Career Interest Profiler, College

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