Making School Relevant with Individualized Learning Plans: Helping Students Create Their Own Career and Life Goals - Softcover

Solberg, V. Scott H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1682533840 ISBN 13: 9781682533840

Publisher: Harvard Education Press, 2019

Synopsis

Counseling expert V. Scott H. Solberg introduces a new paradigm and framework for career development focused on teaching skills that all students need to set long-term goals and experience post-secondary success. Based on nearly a decade of research and technical assistance in schools, the book shows how educators can leverage the use of individual learning plans (ILPs) to help students identify their interests and create their own career pathways using resources inside and outside of school.

In Making School Relevant with Individualized Learning Plans, Solberg argues that the most effective career development is delivered using a multiyear whole-school approach led by caring advisors and other mentors, combined with the use of readily available online tools and resources. Core chapters provide examples of specific activities and resources that advisors and others can draw on for helping students develop three critical skill sets: self‐exploration, career exploration, and career planning and self‐management, which are needed to succeed in the world of work.

This book will help educators and youth development leaders understand how ILPs prepare their youth to become college- and career-ready and thereby transition from high school with the competencies and drive necessary to pursue their career and life goals.

About this title

About the Author

V. Scott H. Solberg, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Counseling and Applied Human Development at Boston University’s Wheelock College of Education and Human Development. For over twelve years, Solberg has studied the nature and value of individualized learning plans. After launching Success Highways, a resiliency curriculum used in schools throughout the United States, Solberg became interested in ILPs while directing an online career information system (WisCareers) and leading an effort to localize it for Singapore (ecgcareers). Solberg has been fortunate to learn about ILPs from a number of state leaders, districts, and schools both in the United States and internationally, and has developed a number of ILP-related toolkits, briefs, and policy recommendations. When he takes a break from what his family describes as “always sitting around and writing on the computer,” Solberg enjoys traveling with his wonderful wife and three amazing children and savoring the ocean air from his back porch in Marblehead, Massachusetts.

From the Back Cover

In Making School Relevant with Individualized Learning Plans, counseling expert V. Scott H. Solberg introduces a new paradigm and framework for career development focused on teaching skills that all students need to set long-term goals and experience postsecondary success. Based on nearly a decade of research and technical assistance in schools, Solberg shows how educators can leverage the use of individual learning plans (ILPs) to help students identify their interests and create their own career pathways using resources inside and outside of school.

This book will help educators and youth development leaders understand how ILPs prepare their youth to become college- and career-ready with the competencies and drive necessary to pursue their career and life goals.

“There is no question that all our schools, not just some, ought to create opportunities for children and youth to explore and ultimately create their own career and life goals. But many school leaders and educators are not certain how to best go about doing this. Solberg’s book provides a path for those who want to make access to these opportunities available in an equitable manner. His approach blends years of research into the issue of individualized learning plans with a thoughtful analysis of practice and facilitating policies.”
—Johan E. Uvin, president, Institute for Educational Leadership

“I am delighted to see Scott Solberg position Career and Technical Education (CTE) and school counseling in their rightful place as leaders and allies for fostering meaningful ILP development and delivery. ILPs produce postsecondary- and workforce-ready young adults who in turn become robustly employed in our states, grow professionally, and contribute to our local economies.”
—Lauren K. Jones, CTE Program Director for Special Populations, Counseling, Middle School & Equity, CTE in Colorado/Community College System

V. Scott H. Solberg is a professor in the Department of Counseling and Applied Human Development at Boston University’s Wheelock College of Education and Human Development.

From the Inside Flap

In Making School Relevant with Individualized Learning Plans, counseling expert V. Scott H. Solberg introduces a new paradigm and framework for career development focused on teaching skills that all students need to set long-term goals and experience postsecondary success. Based on nearly a decade of research and technical assistance in schools, Solberg shows how educators can leverage the use of individual learning plans (ILPs) to help students identify their interests and create their own career pathways using resources inside and outside of school.

This book will help educators and youth development leaders understand how ILPs prepare their youth to become college- and career-ready with the competencies and drive necessary to pursue their career and life goals.

"There is no question that all our schools, not just some, ought to create opportunities for children and youth to explore and ultimately create their own career and life goals. But many school leaders and educators are not certain how to best go about doing this. Solberg's book provides a path for those who want to make access to these opportunities available in an equitable manner. His approach blends years of research into the issue of individualized learning plans with a thoughtful analysis of practice and facilitating policies."
--Johan E. Uvin, president, Institute for Educational Leadership

"I am delighted to see Scott Solberg position Career and Technical Education (CTE) and school counseling in their rightful place as leaders and allies for fostering meaningful ILP development and delivery. ILPs produce postsecondary- and workforce-ready young adults who in turn become robustly employed in our states, grow professionally, and contribute to our local economies."
--Lauren K. Jones, CTE Program Director for Special Populations, Counseling, Middle School & Equity, CTE in Colorado/Community College System

V. Scott H. Solberg is a professor in the Department of Counseling and Applied Human Development at Boston University's Wheelock College of Education and Human Development.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvard Education Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1682533840
• ISBN 13: 9781682533840
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 184