Feature #1 : plan results – What to do now

  • PLAN Booklet: Using Your Plan Results
  • Your Score Report
  • Test Booklet

Your PLAN results provide valuable information for two reasons:

1.To provide some insight that can be used to plan for life after high school.

2.To indicate academic skills and abilities, preferences for different work tasks, personal needs, goals, and plans.

Your test scores have been translated into scaled scores between the numbers of 1-32, with 1 being the lowest. All of the scores are added together and averaged to get your composite score. If you check out page 2 of your booklet, this process is explained in more detail.

The PLAN score is used to give you an estimatedACT Composite if taken in the fall of your senior year. The academics you take, as well as any additional preparation, between now and the actual ACT can influence this estimate.

Included in the PLAN results are College Readiness Benchmarks. Students scoring above the listed scores, and taking college prep courses throughout high school, will likely be ready for first-year college courses. Students scoring below these scores should review the suggestions for improving your skills listed on the back of the PLAN results. You can also seek out your counselor for suggestions of possible high school courses to improve your skills.

The backside of your Score Report provides the correct answer as well as your answer to each of the questions. You are able to review the answers with the actual questions in the test booklet to provide a better sense of academic strengths and weaknesses.

In addition to the booklets and your Score Report, the PLAN website, is very helpful in explaining what it means.


FEATURE #3: Naviance

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Dublin City Schools has selected Family Connection from Naviance to offer a comprehensive website that you can use to help in making decisions regarding college and careers.

Family Connection allows you to:

  • Explore careers and find out how your interests can match up with occupations by clicking on the “careers” tab and under the headings “explore careers” and then to “explore careers & clusters” or the heading “what are my interests” and complete any of the 3 surveys

feature #4 : Tolles Career & technical center

Tolles Career & Technical Center provides unique opportunities to complete your high school academics while also building skills in a specific career field. They offer twenty-fivedifferent technical programs of study in a wide variety of career fields such as auto repair, art & design, business & finance, broadcast video, culinary arts, criminal justice, early childhood education, fire fighting, EMT, pre-nursing, and much more. Career educational opportunities are created for students with the focus needed for college success and for those wishing to enter the job market.

Tolles is holding atour for students on January 24th. See Mrs. Lindeman or Mrs. Bauer if you need additional information or have further questions.

CAREER WEB SITES

The Occupational Outlook Handbook is a nationally recognized source of career information produced by the Federal government, designed to provide valuable assistance to individuals making decisions about their future work lives. Revised every two years, the Handbook describes what workers do on the job, working conditions, the training and education needed, earnings, and expected job prospects in a wide range of occupations.

online.onetcenter.org This is a U.S. Department of Labor interactive database of detailed information on over a thousand occupations. Try the “Skills Search” to find occupations that match your abilities.

This site contains an informative encyclopedia of occupations. For each occupation the site provides: The Nature of the Work, Working Conditions, Training Required, Job Outlook, Earnings, Related Occupations, and Sources of Additional Information.

This is the leading career information resource for the military world of work, which gives you details on 152 enlisted and officer occupations. In addition, it describes training, advancement, and educational opportunities within each of the major Services -- Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard.

The America’s Job Bank lists thousands of job openings, and an extensive career resource library online. For example, it provides links to state job search engines, connects job seekers to employer-maintained job listings, find wages and employment trends, and occupational requirements.

This web site provides over 400,000 job opportunities, resume assistance, and interviewtechniques.

Career One is a publicly funded resource for jobseekers. Find jobs--from entry level to technical to professional to CEO. Locate public workforce services in your area. Explore alternative career paths, compare salary data for different occupations, learn which careers are hot, get resume writing tips, job interview strategies, and more!

This site will help you explore your strengths and weaknesses through a career assessment. It also provides hundreds of tough interview questions and other important interviewing tips.