College and career week

A post about how I was able to implement a school-wide Career Day in my Elementary School.

This College and Career Escape Room is the perfect challenge for students to build teamwork and learn about awareness of their college and career options. Students will be exposed to college terminology, the branches of the military, and various career paths. Students are given the a scenario where there school is invade by aliens who want to learn about college and career options on earth and the only way to save everyone from infiltration is for students to work together to solve the…

The end of the school year is rapidly approaching. In fact, we only have 10 days left! I can't believe it. This year has completely flown by...in the blink of an eye. But in that same blink, the behavior of the students has gone off the deep end. They are ALMOST as excited about the upcoming summer as we are. The massive full moon does not help at all! It is crazy up in here!! So we are trying very hard to survive. And the best way to survive is to engage children. To get them excited about…

In 2nd grade we began our talks about the future by reading Someday by Eileen Spinelli. This book is a great springboard into careers beca...

virtual college and career week for distance learning

While I was in the throws of coordinating and administering a standardized assessment to about 450 of our students (that was going to be online...for the

This post discribes 8 career concepts to work on throughout the elementary years. Students will learn how they can connect to the world of work!

Make heading back to school for college and career readiness fun with these fun and engaging ice breaker activities. Spend the first couple days using a collection of ice breakers that will help your students get to know you and their classmates while becoming engaged about the class. I have included 8 ice breakers activities along with an answer key. These NO PREP activities are focused on college and career readiness topics and can be done as an icebreaker, game, a quick entry/exit ticket…

Have students create a career poster for Career Day or Take Your Child to Work Day using technology to research and make a photo of their future career on the iPad!