Career and Education Development
Career and education development helps all students gain the knowledge, skills, and behaviors to interact with others, set goals, and make decisions related to career, college, and citizenship. Success in the twenty-first century differs significantly from the twentieth century model. Lifelong employment with a single employer has virtually vanished. Success today is increasingly dependent on a sophisticated knowledge base, the ability to enhance that base, to collaborate, to self-direct, and to adapt to change. Individuals will need to adapt their goals and decisions over their lifetimes in relation to school and workplace requirements and personal responsibilities. As part of career and education development, students must see education as a continuous lifelong process that will prepare them for and make them adaptable in a complex, information-rich, and fast-changing world.
Embed Career and Education Development Instruction - The knowledge, skills, and behaviors outlined in Career and Education Development Standards are essential for all students. It is important that the knowledge, skills, and behaviors of career and education development be connected to the context of schools, career, and community. Although stand-alone courses in career and education development may serve to help students focus on career, college, and citizenship goals, all content areas need to embed career and education standards to enable students to make the connection between content areas schoolwork, and career, college, and citizenship goals. School administrative units should determine the most appropriate content areas and school settings in which to embed these standards.
OUTLINE OF CAREER AND EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS AND PERFORMANCE INDICATOR LABELS
A. Learning about Self-Knowledge and Interpersonal Relationships
1. Self-Knowledge and Self-Concept
2. Beliefs and Behaviors that Lead to Success
3. Interpersonal Skills
4. Career and Life Roles
B. Learning About and Exploring Education, Career, and Life Roles
1. Relationships among Learning, Work, the Community, and the Global Economy
2. Skills for Individual/Personal Success in the 21st Century
3. Education and Career Information
C. Learning to Make Decisions, Plan and Create Opportunities, and Make Meaningful Contributions
1. The Planning Process
2. Decision-Making
3. Influences on Decision-Making
4. Societal Needs and Changes that Influence Workplace Success
(Maine Learning Results, 2007)