Workshop: Educational Choices You Won’t Regret Later:  What You Need to Know and Do To Ensure You are Making Wise Decisions about Your Education

• Overview:

Participants learn about what they need to know and do to make effective education choices so they can ensure that their long-term education and career goals are achieved. They will learn about how formal and informal education works, how it relates to careers and labor market trends, and what information they need to consider when making decisions regarding what type and how much education they need to achieve their goals.  

• Learning Outcomes:

         Participants Will:

• Identify Why They Need to Do to Make Good Decisions

• Identify What Activities Contribute to Good Decisions

• Register How Today’s World Impacts Education Choices

• Learn How to Research Career Options

• Learn to Research Education Options

• Acquire Tools for Researching Education Options

• Recognize Appropriate Academic Preparation Activities

• Recognize Appropriate Career Preparation Activities

• Identify Effective Job Search Strategies

• Workshop Presenter:

  • Kathleen E. High, M.Ed., CCSP, FCD-I
    

• Downloads:

  • One-stop

    • PowerPoint File

    • Workshop Handout

    • Info Flyer:

      • Garden Grove

      • Irvine

• Additional Handouts:

  • Higher Education Research Tools (Consisting of):

    • Understanding Education Systems

    • School Research Project

  • School Research Project — Faith-based Schools

• Life-Long Learning Options

• Understanding Labor Market Trends

  1. So How Do You Get Your Dream Career

• Different Types of Counselors

• The Journey
  

• Education Research Links

• What Is the Difference Between a Certificate, Diploma and Degree?

• What is the difference between a certification and a license?

• Career One-stop: Find Training

• Career One-stop: Get My Future

• How to Become an Apprentice

• Certification Finder

• Assist.org (California public college curriculum agreements)

• Find a Program at a California Community College

• CSUMentor.org

• University of California

• Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities (AICCU)

• Council for Christian Colleges & Universities

• ​College Scorecard (Research statistics)

• Salary Surfer (Compares salaries of recent community college graduates)

• College Accreditation And Why It Matters

• ​US Dept of Education: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/ (Check a colleges’ accreditation status)

• CHEA – Council for Higher Education Accreditation – “the accreditors of accreditors”

• Education Testing Services

• Applying for federal financial aid: FAFSA

• California Community College – Private College Articulation Information

• CalJobs (Has EDD-approved Eligible Training Provider List)

• Local (Orange County) Degree Completion Programs for Adults

• Online Student Readiness Tutorials

• National Association of Credential Association Services (foreign transcript evaluation companies)

• Center for Competitive Workforce (Research on which middle-skilled occupations need training programs)
  

• Career Research Links

• Occupational Outlook Handbook

• O*Net

• Other Related Resources:

• Article: The Biggest Crisis in Higher Ed Isn’t Student Debt, It’s Students Who Don’t Graduate

• Online Student Readiness Tutorials (California Community College Chancellor’s Office)

• Difference Between Credentials and Certifications

• Career Decision-Making Questionnaire (CDDQ) (Why are you having difficulty making career decisions?)

• California Community College – Chancellor’s Office – Counselor Resources

• Career Pathways: 5 Ways to Connect College and Careers (Georgetown University – resources for professionals)

• Career Coach (California Community College) – Research education/career options

• Media Bias Chart

• Exceptional Teaching

• Videos Related to Making Educational Choices

• Education / Career Connection Topics:

• Success in the New Economy (2018 version)

• The Insufficient Degree

• 4 Skills & 4 Steps to a Successful Career

• Flipping the College Decision-Making Paradigm

• Don’t Follow Your Passion

• Types of Accreditation: What’s the Difference?

• 10,000 Hour Rule (Rote Learning)

• Changing Education Paradigms

• Slope of the Curve (Technology is replacing jobs. Are you ready?)

• Did You Know? (Shift Happens)

• A Promise Fulfilled: A Framework for Equitable Free College Programs

• Related Video Clips:

• Rapidly-Changing World

• Related Books:

• Looking at Type and Learning Styles: Using Psychological Type to Make Learning Personally Effective

• Introduction to Type and Learning

• Introduction to Type and College

• StrengthsQuest (Clifton Strengths assessment applied to academics)

• Wounded by School

• Occupational Programs in California Community Colleges

• Related Articles:​

• How to Make Sense of College Rankings

• Students At Most Colleges Don’t Pick ‘Useless’ Majors

• The Ph.D. Now Comes With Food Stamps

• 3 Reasons You Should Avoid Competency Based Degree Programs
  

• Related Handouts:

• Striving but Not Arriving?

  1. Hungry, Tired, Stressed Affecting Your Grades?

• Article: “Alumna Sues College”

• ​Linking Education and Career

  1. Description of College Degree Options

• Degree Ladder

• AA/BA Unit Composition

• Understanding Educational Systems

• School Research Project

  1. General Education Patterns for Select Private Schools

• Educational Goals Worksheet

• Accrediting Organizations

• Researching Career Interests

• Basic Career Research – Options Exploration (Part 1)

• Career Research Assignment – In Depth (Part 2)

• Informational Interviews

• Job Placement Resources