K-16 Transitions: Developmental Perspectives on College and Career Readiness

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***ONLY OFFERED FOR OEL STUDENTS***This module is designed to provide students with a developmental perspective on how students conceptualize and engage in college and career readiness. While no one student will follow an identical path to and through college/career, a developmental approach that emphasizes the importance of aspiration formation, identity development, hopefulness, motivation, and planfulness for college and career is essential to inventing a positive, meaningful future. This module invites students to consider these developmental constructs in light of the structures and systems that shape an individual’s future self. Students will review scholarship from the fields of PreK-12 education, counseling, psychology, higher education, and career development with an emphasis on strengths-based frameworks that center students’ social identities, assets, and developmental needs. The class will combine developmental theories with applied educational experiences across the K-16 continuum.