Tips for getting your Middle School student ready for High School and
beyond.
1. Visit the RMS counseling website and do some career interest inventories.
2. Start making a list of your student's top 25 colleges.
3. Check out college websites to look at admission requirements
4. Keep all college and career information in one folder that you can add to
each year.
5. Attend the College Fair Monday, SEPTEMBER 26TH, 2011
Cedar Ridge high School 5:00 PM
Career Cruising is an online career guidance and planning
system. Students can use it to find the right career,
explore education and training options, and build their own
portfolio. All current 7th graders received their log in
information last year during Mrs. Leverette's guidance lessons.
Mrs. Leverette will again be teaching classes October 18th-20th
in Lab 514. During this session students will learn more about
how to use Career Cruising to help drive their elective choices
for the next year based on their college and career interest.
Career Cruising Website
Check out the new ACC website. This new site brings Tech Prep,
Early College Start, and College Connection all together under
one umbrella.
ACC College Early Start
Find a Major — Find a College — Find Scholarships!
Text MAJORS to 80802 to download the new complimentary MyMajors
App. It’s super-useful and works with all Android, iPhone or
iTouch (with camera) mobile devices.
College Search App for Smartphones
Career planning tool developed by the Texas Workforce Commission
that will be utilized with 6th graders this year to explore their
work values and leisure activity interests. Don't forget to watch
the career videos after completing the assessment. Already know
what you want to do? Go directly to your career cluster and see
what other jobs might interest you.
OSCAR
September is Education Go Get It Week (EGGI) Get ready by
exploring some career options!
Middle School Career Information
Try out the following Career Inventories. You might be surprised
what careers match your interest.
Career Clickers Expanded
It is never to early to start exploring career interest. Take
some time this Spring or Summer and see what you like to do!
Career Clickers eXpanded
This in-depth career interest inventory, provided free of charge
by Learn
More Indiana, offers a more detailed bank of questions to help
connect
individuals to possible careers that may interest them.
Career Clickers eXpress
Have you always wondered what jobs might fit you—and your likes
and dislikes—
best? Use these tools to find out what jobs might be best for you
and how to
get into the career you’ve always wanted.
Career Party
Career Party is a very short career interest inventory for
students. It
quickly helps students get a code that can then be entered into
the “Career
Profiles” section of this Web site.
Career Voyages
Career Voyages is the result of a collaboration between the U.S.
Department
of Labor and the U.S. Department of Education. It is designed to
provide
information on high growth, in-demand occupations along with the
skills and
education needed to attain those jobs.
Drive of Your Life
Drive of Your Life is a Web-based video game designed to help
middle-school
students learn more about themselves and their options for the
future.
Career Inventories
Scholarship opportunity for 7th graders only who have
demonstrated financial need (90% of awards go to families earning
$60,000 or less) and academic success ( all A's and B's for the
past 2 years.) Applications are avaialable at this link in
February.
Jack Kent Cook Foundation Young Scholars Program
This free service available to the public for student college
exploration. If you would like your child to create a
profile,/log-in to save their search information, please do this
with them at home.
Free no log in College Majors Search
Take this inventory to see which cluster you might be interested
in. Once you have found your cluster ask your grade level
counselor for more information.
Career Cluster exploration
Reality check is an interactive online tool being used with grade
7 this
spring. Students will learn about typical real world expenses and
be able to
see which careers will stack up with their lifestyle expectations.
http://www.cdr.state.tx.us/realitycheck
www.CollegeWeekLive.com is the world�s largest college fair �
online or
offline. The online-only free college fair � held multiple
times each year -
- brings high schools students, parents, guidance counselors,
admissions
experts and colleges together� transcending time, cost and
distance.
CollegeWeekLive provides live access to college admissions
officers from
hundreds of colleges, from Texas Tech to Stanford to Dartmouth to
University
of Miami.
http://www.CollegeWeekLive.com
COIN is an online resource for students, parents, and teachers.
All parents
need for access is their child's 6 digit school id number and the
site id-
TX15810. This account will follow them from 8th grade thru HS
graduation,
even allowing students to explore careers after earning their
diploma.
http://community.coin3.com
It's not too early to start practicing for the SAT! This page is
provided by the College Board and features a daily practice
question to help students prepare for the test. There is a link
to a hint for those who are stumped. Students can see how well
they stacked up against everyone else who tried this item. In
addition, students can sign in to track their own statistics and
may print practice questions.
SAT Question of the Day
Career Clicker Express
Career Party
Career One Stop
Drive of your life
The Student Services & College Career Readiness department has
purchased a wonderful online tool for college prep and career
planning that is free to all students.
From the RRISD district webpage, go to 'Students and Parents'.
From there click on 'Research Resources'. Move your mouse to the
right and click on 'Research Resources'. Scroll down until you
get to 'Careers/College Planning'. Click on the green rectangle
that says 'Testing and Education Reference Center'.
Students may also access this site from any computer with
internet access by going to http://www.nelnetsolutions.com/terc/
On this site you will find useful high school tools, college prep
tools, career tools, online books, and a family college planning
center. It includes an online resume builder, practice tests for
TAKS, AP, SAT, ACT, PSAT, and much more.
Students will have to register (takes only a minute to give an e-
mail address, first and last name, and have the student pick a
username and password). If the website is accessed from a
district computer, no other password is needed besides what they
create when they register. If the website is accessed from a
computer not in our district network (i.e. home, public library,
etc.), then they must provide a remote access username and
password. The remote access user name is: rrockisd, and the
remote access password is: remote. This user name and password
are not to be published (i.e. district websites, newsletters,
etc.), as this violates the agreement. Thus, students will have
to write it down in a place they will remember.
'Testing and Education Reference Center'
Free Harvard Tuition for families making less than 60K
Harvard University Announcement
No tuition and no student loans
Harvard University announced over the weekend that from now on undergraduate
students from low-income families will pay no tuition. In making the
announcement, Harvard's president Lawrence H. Summers said, "When only ten
percent of the students in elite higher education come from families in the
lower half of the income distribution, we are not doing enough. We are not
doing enough in bringing elite higher education to the lower half of the
income distribution."
If you know of a family earning less than $60,000 a year with an honor
student graduating from high school soon, Harvard University wants to pay the
tuition. The prestigious university recently announced that from now on
undergraduate students from low-income families can go to Harvard for free...
no tuition and no student loans!
To find out more about Harvard offering free tuition for fam ilies making
less than $60,000 a year, visit Harvard's financial aid website at:
http://www.fao.fas.harvard.edu/ or call the school's financial aid office at
(617) 495-1581.