Welcome to the Web Site Home of Counseling 21st Century Students
for Optimal College and Career Readiness A 9th – 12th Grade Curriculum.
Corine Fitzpatrick
and
Kathleen Costantini
About our book
Counseling 21st Century Students for Optimal College and Career Readiness A 9th – 12th Grade Curriculum 2nd edition is a response to the overwhelming need that counselors and students confront in the fast changing global world economy. Fifteen percent of our high schools’ students drop out or do not graduate in 4 years (https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_coj.asp). Half of those who remain, graduate without the skills for college or a job. While there are many new initiatives to foster excellence in our schools, very few of these initiatives, and in particular curricular initiatives, have focused on counselors. Yet counselors have an enormous impact on student achievement and post secondary goals. This book and web site offer counselors an action-based curriculum that will meet the needs of 21st century high school students, help to foster their growth and ambition, and engage them as constructivists in learning what they need to succeed beyond high school.
“A text that should be on every school counselor’s bookshelf. The chapters are filled with
concepts and theories to assist pupil personnel services professionals and administrators
in preparing students for college and the workforce. The text does an incredible job helping
educators put theory into practice when guiding students towards a successful future and
career path.”
Richard D. Tomko, Superintendent of Schools, Belleville Public School District, Belleville, NJ
Counseling 21st Century Students for Optimal College and Career Readiness A 9th – 12th Grade Curriculum takes a comprehensive, developmental approach, focusing on 9th-12th grade students, rather than solely on those in 11th and 12th grade. Specific topics discussed include successful transition to 9th grade; using technology in the college and career advising process; assisting and advising students in college research and application; working with parents; and helping seniors make successful transitions to college. This book also provides a model for developing and enhancing a successful college advising office as well as essential advice on optimal methods of working with parents and with students with learning disabilities. The described curriculum is geared for use by school counselors, college advisors, and in graduate counseling student courses designed for learning this necessary set of skills needed to counsel high school students about going on to college. There is also a special focus on those students in urban and rural schools to enable them to have the same enriched experiences in their college and career advising program as those students in private and suburban schools.
Here at http://www.optimalcollegeandcareerreadiness.com, counselors, teachers, and administrators will find useful information to assist them in their essential work with students and families. Included on the web site is easy access to the tables, exercises, and charts contained in the book. In this way, materials may be reproduced so that students may benefit from the practical, hands-on experience that is critical in our approach to an effective college and career readiness curriculum. In addition, the web site provides a means of communication with the authors as well as a posting of events of the authors’ presentations. The web site is an indispensable tool for counselors, teachers, administrators, and graduate school educators in the vital work of helping students understand and achieve their collegiate and career goals.
Again, welcome to our web site! A space designed to help counselors, teachers and administrators in the work of helping students on their journey towards Optimal College and Career Readiness!
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