Career-Connected Learning: Preparing Students for a Dynamic Future — from gettingsmart.com by Tom Vander Ark and Victoria Andrews
Key Points
- Connecting young people with career awareness needs to start at an early age to provide them with the necessary landscape view of opportunity and skills.
- Whether young people engage client-focused opportunities, internships, or endure academically challenging coursework, career-connected learning is an environment to cultivate a sense of self-awareness, determination, and direction, essential for their success in both education and life.
Also from Getting Smart, see:
CHILD: A Microschool Unlocking the Potential for Unique Learners — by Maureen O’Shaughnessy
Key Points
- The success of adaptive learning is not solely based on the program, but rather on the people behind it.
- Clarity on “who you serve” is critical to success.