College and career readiness

8 Key Steps to College & Career Readiness

Make heading back to school for college and career readiness fun with these fun and engaging ice breaker activities. Spend the first couple days using a collection of ice breakers that will help your students get to know you and their classmates while becoming engaged about the class. I have included 8 ice breakers activities along with an answer key. These NO PREP activities are focused on college and career readiness topics and can be done as an icebreaker, game, a quick entry/exit ticket…

By: The Daring English Teacher As a high school English teacher, I feel that it’s important to make sure my students are ready for life outside of high school. I usually teach freshmen and sophomores, but this year is my first year teaching senior-level English, and it is eye-opening. My students are so aware, so mature, and so afraid. In several short months they will receive their high school diplomas and walk their last steps on the high school campus which they’ve called home for the…

Student-centered teaching takes more than beliefs. It takes real instructional change. Miriam Plotinsky's newest book shares tools to help teachers get started.

These career activities are perfect for high school students who are just beginning to persue career exploration. These ideas will help them narrow down choices

Download a student-friendly poster that explains what it takes to be college and career ready, based on the Four Keys model developed by Dr. David Conley.

Is your teen ready to be launched into the big, bad world? Does your teen know her learning style? Have his career planned out? Know how to make goals, manage time, etc? Check out this post for a class that can help with all of that!

This College and Career Escape Room is the perfect challenge for students to build teamwork and learn about awareness of their college and career options. Students will be exposed to college terminology, the branches of the military, and various career paths. Students are given the a scenario where there school is invade by aliens who want to learn about college and career options on earth and the only way to save everyone from infiltration is for students to work together to solve the…

Discovering interests, exploring careers, and learning about colleges are ways to help middle school students become college and career ready.

Helping students think about their future is important. If teaching job skills is a goal in your classroom, then check out these activities!