Plymouth School District
Plan Your Future Week
October 22 - October 26
To better prepare Plymouth School District students for their future, you are encouraged to contribute to our 1st annual, "Plan Your Future Week" by using advisory periods and/or class time for brief lessons to help make students aware of the different options available to them after high school! This is a unique opportunity for our entire district to collaboratively excite kids about their FUTURE!
Our hope is that, "Plan Your Future Week" reinforces our vision that all students graduate from Plymouth High School with a plan; whether college-bound to a university, community college, technical college, vocational training school, apprenticeship, military, gap year, etc. All of us in the Plymouth School District bring diverse experiences and training that can be shared with our students to encourage, support, and inspire future planning and exploration.
Plan Your Future Week
October 22 - October 26
To better prepare Plymouth School District students for their future, you are encouraged to contribute to our 1st annual, "Plan Your Future Week" by using advisory periods and/or class time for brief lessons to help make students aware of the different options available to them after high school! This is a unique opportunity for our entire district to collaboratively excite kids about their FUTURE!
Our hope is that, "Plan Your Future Week" reinforces our vision that all students graduate from Plymouth High School with a plan; whether college-bound to a university, community college, technical college, vocational training school, apprenticeship, military, gap year, etc. All of us in the Plymouth School District bring diverse experiences and training that can be shared with our students to encourage, support, and inspire future planning and exploration.
Quick Activities & Ideas for Supporting "Plan Your Future Week"
- Have a college gear day: t-shirts, sweatshirts, sweatpants, etc (alma mater, siblings, parents, aunts & uncles)
- Decorate classroom door in college colors, different college logos, jobs, etc.
- Guest Speaker: PHS graduate, current college student, professor, college admission rep, financial aid officer, employer, apprentice (if you need help with this, please let us know). You can use Inspire Sheboygan in Career Cruising to request guest speakers.
- Discuss study skills
- Complete a practice college or scholarship application.
- Talk to mom, dad, grandparents, etc about their experiences planning for their future--share out in class
- Teachers talk about their personal college experiences
- Brainstorm a list of as many different colleges as you can
- Create a word wall--college terms/words related to your future
- Students look up colleges on Career Cruising or the web
- Interview parents/community members/adults/mentors about their college experiences
- Interview current college students
- Students research different majors on Career Cruising
- Students create resumes on Career Cruising
- Students make a list of dream jobs/careers and research the level of education needed via Career Cruising
- Display college banners/pennants
- Have seniors talk to younger students about their college search
- Make a list of different types of colleges(two-year, technical, public, private,); find examples of each and how they differ
- Create a poem/song about college/future
- Journal/blog about topics related to future planning
- Have students dress in their favorite college apparel
- Have students research and present about their future plans
- Love History--find out when certain colleges were started.
- Have seniors talk to underclassmen about their experiences
- Make a list of all the different post-secondary options available to students
- Have students research the cost of further education: technical school, UW-Sheboygan (public freshmen/sophomore campus), Lakeland (private), UW-Milwaukee (public), specialized training school (cosmetology)
- Have students research and present about a college to others in class
- Hold a Socratic seminar relating to college and career readiness
- ACT and/or SAT practice questions/trivia
- Identify 2 schools that might be of interest based on career goals, favorite subjects, location, class size, etc. Share in class.
High School Resource Links:
- http://www.nacacnet.org/research/publicationsresources/marketplace/documents/sbs_middleschool.pdf (Middle & High School)
- http://www.hcisd.org/cms/lib4/TX01001784/Centricity/ModuleInstance/4390/College%20Awareness.pdf (K-12)
- https://www.pinterest.com/tuckeral/college-awareness/ (K-12)
- http://www.collegeaware.ie/get-involved/activities-toolkit (K-12)
- http://www.reachhighershasta.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/101PathwaystoCollegeActivities.pdf (K-12)
- http://www.vacareerview.org/