HSHSP Ep 173: Career Pathways for Homeschool High School

This week on HSHSP Ep 173: Career Pathways for Homeschool High School. HSHSP Ep 173: Career Pathways for Homeschool High School How do you help your homeschool high schoolers be best prepared for what comes AFTER they graduate? There are 2 career-related experiences they really should do: * Career Exploration: This is a course that helps teens explore their talents, strengths, interests, abilities, experiences and values to help them narrow down career possibilities. * Career Pathways: These are the courses that your homeschool high schooler will do that help prepare them for their future careers or college-majors. Join Vicki and our wonderful guests: 7Sister Marilyn and our friend, Barb Varnell. You know them from our How to Get Started Homeschooling High School suite of episodes: * The Nuts and Bolts of Starting Homeschool High School: How to get started (and still feel encouraged) * Transcripts for Transfer Students: What happens when you start homeschool during the middle of high school? Here are tips. * Bringing Teens Home for High School:How to handle starting homeschooling when teens have been in traditional school through 8th grade. * Newbie Homeschool Moms, You Can Do It: You can, you really can! * More Nuts and Bolts for Newbie Moms: Homeschooling high school, you can do it! Barb has also given us great advice on homeschooling high school with intellectually gifted teens. She's also a PhD chemist, so she and her daughter join Vicki for a fascinating discussion about whether you can be a scientist and a creationist at the same time. Marilyn and Barb serve the local homeschool umbrella school as academic advisors. (Vicki retired from the academic advisor role there after 18 years.) They help homeschooling high schoolers have a successful high school experience and  prepare for what they'll do after graduation. They meet several times a year with teens and their parents to set their goals for high school, career and life. An important part of their discussions are about what teens are doing for their Career Exploration until they clarify some goals (as much as a teen can know). Then they help teens develop their Career Pathways goals that will help you prepare for career or college major. To get started on Career Exploration, check out this comprehensive post on getting started. * Log hours doing various *explorations* and a course to earn a credit for the homeschool transcript. Today, we want to discuss, Career Pathways. Homeschool High Schoolers, here's some great advice: Insider tip from Barb: For college-bound teens, develop Career Pathways credits, extracurriculars, competitions and service to make you stand out from the crowd. You want colleges to not only like you, but like you enough to give you money to come. Career-bound AND College-bound teens: * Shadow someone working in the field * Volunteer with an organization that is in the field ...