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Pathways
Authors: Nancy L. Hutchinson, John G. Freeman, Queen's University
Pathways is an activity-based career education program to prepare
secondary students for successful employment. Through a series of engaging
activities, such as self-assessment, career preference games, role playing,
group discussions, and peer and teacher evaluation, students learn and practise
strategies to:
- understand their personal characteristics and career options in order
to make a suitable career choice
- successfully prepare application forms and resumés
- have an employment interview that increases the chance of obtaining
a position
- manage and solve problems in the employment setting
- control their temper in anger-provoking situations that might occur
in the workplace
With its emphasis on strategies of cognitive instruction, Pathways
differs significantly from traditional career education. This instruction
is carried out in three steps. The teacher models a strategy by thinking
aloud, the students engage in guided practice with a partner or small group
while receiving feedback, and, lastly, the students practise independently
until they are competent and confident.
Pathways consists of five instructional modules which may be used
independently or in sequence with other modules for a complete program of
career education. Each module contains activity plans, suggestions for extensions,
instructional hints, teacher modelling scripts, and reproducible student
work pages and activity aids.
The five modules are:
- Pathways: Knowing About Yourself, Knowing About Careers - Helps
students understand their personal characteristics and career options
in order to make a suitable career choice.
- Pathways: Succeeding With the Resumé and the Application
- Helps students understand the strategies necessary for completing
the written components of obtaining employment.
- Pathways: Succeeding With the Interview - Teaches students
the skills needed to participate in an employment interview that increases
the chance of obtaining a position.
- Pathways: Solving Problems on the Job - Helps students develop
the strategies understand the strategies necessary for completing the
written components of obtaining employment.
- Pathways: Anger Management on the Job - Helps students develop
the strategies needed to control their temper in anger-provoking situations.
The Pathways program has been field-tested with twenty-five classes
in five sites across Canada. Major funding for the program has come from
the Canadian Guidance and Counselling Foundation's CAMCRY initiative and
from Queen's University.
TRAINING
The Canadian Guidance and Counselling Foundation provides professional
and regular training programs for Pathways and other CAMCRY initiatives.
For further information, please contact:
The Canadian Career Development Foundation
202-119 Ross St.
Ottawa, Ontario
K1Y 0N6
T: 1-877-729-6164
F: (613) 729-3515
E: information@ccdf.ca
ORDER DETAILS
| TITLE |
ISBN |
PRICE
(Cndn. $) |
| Complete Pathways Program (5 modules and overview) |
604550-3 |
$165.25 |
| Pathways: Program Overview |
604549-X |
$5.50 |
| Pathways: Knowing About Yourself and Careers |
604544-9 |
$41.40 |
| Pathways: Succeeding With the Resumé and the Application |
604545-7 |
$41.40 |
| Pathways: Succeeding With the Interview |
604546-5 |
$41.40 |
| Pathways: Solving Problems on the Job |
604547-3 |
$41.40 |
| Pathways: Anger Management on the Job |
604548-1 |
$41.40 |
Prices are in effect October 1, 2005.
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