How is a comprehensive guidance course different than a career exploration course?
Helping students become career focused and career committed. A key goal of a comprehensive guidance curriculum such as the Career Choices curriculum is helping students become career-focused and career-committed, while learning how to make effective decisions about their futures. Becoming career focused and career committed doesn’t mean they necessarily know what career they want to pursue but, more important, they understand WHY they need to prepare for a career at all. They understand how their educational effort today impacts their future happiness. Because of classroom exploration and discussion topics in the comprehensive guidance course, they clearly recognize the consequences of not getting a good education. They can quantify and articulate a detailed vision of a productive, self-sufficient adulthood, not only as it relates to career plans, but also to plans associated with lifestyle, financial goals, personal satisfaction and identity issues. Once students understand the “why,”
