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This session describes the nature and promise of Individualized Learning Plans (ILPs). 

ILPs are being used throughout the United States (U.S. DoL, ODEP, n.d.) and internationally (Singapore MOE, n.d.) as a career management strategy for helping youth identify their skills, connect these skills to the world of work, identify a purpose and establish flexible life goals, and identify learning pathways that will enable them to pursue those goals (Solberg, 2019). 

ILPs have shown promise in facilitating positive youth development in a range of areas including pursuing more rigorous academic courses, decreasing teenage pregnancy rates, increasing secondary education attainment rates, and establishing postsecondary learning goals (Solberg, Wills, Redmond & Skaff, 2014).

Some of the critical design elements for quality ILPs include youth identifying career and life goals that align with their talent and interests as well as the design of a scope and sequence of activities that are facilitated by caring and encouraging adults. 

As a career development effort, ILPs focus on “talent development” rather than career choice and decision-making, fosters goal-setting, critical consciousness, self-regulation, deeper human skills and incorporates access to work-based learning and early access to college (Solberg, 2019). 

For high need, high risk youth, the ILP process enables the emergence of proactive, resilient and adaptable young adults who are actively pursuing future opportunities with purpose and hope.

Presenter Biography

Dr. V. Scott Solberg is working internationally and nationally on the design, implementation, and evaluation of effective career development programs and services for especially high-need youth populations, including youth with disabilities. His publications, reports, and curriculum translates career development research into practice and policy strategies that are being used by state leaders to guide their career development implementation and policy efforts and by districts and schools to construct K-12 career development programs and services.

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Australia

Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania, Queensland, ACT – 14:00
South Australia, Northern Territory – 13:30
Western Australia – 12:00

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Product Launch: The Australian Apprenticeships and Traineeships Information Service (AATIS) is proud to launch our all-new Information Kit for Schools during National Careers Week.

If you’re looking to provide information on Australian Apprenticeships, this toolkit is made for you. We will take you through how to use our new toolkit with your audience to educate, inform and guide them towards an apprenticeship pathway. Complete with co-brandable resources and other exciting free giveaways, you will walk away with information you can use on your website, newsletter, and brochures, and events.

Register now to secure your spot: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1662676390383724811

The University of Reading, in collaboration with the Henley Business School, have just created their very first online careers course, Career Smart, hosted on the FutureLearn platform.

 This course aims to support those students graduating in 2020 during the summer before they begin their final year and encourages students to think earlier about their transition into the world of work, whilst providing careers advice at scale. As well as planning and writing content, the course educators were filmed, recorded and produced a suite of webinars, podcasts and screencasts to sit alongside the course.

 In this webinar, Daniel Mitchell (one of the lead educators) will tell you all about their story – from initial idea to actually launching the course. He will give you a guided tour of what the course looks like, the response from students and academics and you’ll hear how the team developed their digital skills along the way. Daniel will also share the very latest stats on how this new initiative is impacting on our careers registration data and all attendees will receive a fully editable PDF workbook that supplements the online course.

Presenter Biography

Daniel Mitchell works as a Careers Consultant for the University of Reading leading on their Finalist engagement initiative, which aims to raise the ambitions, skills and ability of their final year undergraduate students by engaging them in a range of new activities. As part of his role, he also supports students from the School of Literature and Languages, which includes subjects covering English Language, English Literature and Modern Languages.

Daniel has worked in Careers for just over four years and previously managed an employability award and research internship scheme and it was in this role that he received an AGCAS Award for being an Outstanding Newcomer in 2017. He is currently working towards his Postgraduate Diploma in Career Guidance and Development at the University of the West of Scotland and you can find out more by connecting with Daniel on LinkedIn or following him on Twitter.

Time Zones

Australia

Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania, Queensland, ACT – 14:00
South Australia, Northern Territory – 13:30
Western Australia – 12:00

International

For times in your area please visit – www.timeanddate.com

Click here to register for this webinar.