Career Guidance Programs
Comprehensive guidance and counseling programs directed
at providing students career awareness, career exploration and career
decision-making skills must be an integral part of each student’s
educational experience. It is this kind of experience that will help the
students to learn, think, consider and make realistic decisions about
their future opportunities.
Providing these essential guidance and counseling
services becomes dependent on the qualifications, experience and
background of the counselors of our state. The state Coordinator of Career
Guidance programs is committed to developing and improving the career
counseling skills of all school counselors in South Dakota.
The state Coordinator of Career Guidance programs will:
- direct the development and implementation of the
South Dakota Comprehensive Guidance and Counseling Program Model.
- develop and make available guidance curriculum to
accompany the SD Comprehensive Guidance and Counseling Program Model.
- develop a pool of career guidance and counseling
materials in cooperation with the Technical Education Resource Center.
- develop and deliver in-services and workshops for
guidance counselors, teachers and administrators to increase their
knowledge and appreciation of the world of work and vocational
technical education in South Dakota.
- coordinate the South Dakota Career Assessment
Program. This is the career aptitude and interest inventory component
of the state testing program.
- supervise and evaluate all career guidance and
counseling programs funded through the Office of Career and Technical Education and monitor and implement policies from the
Office of Career and Technical Education as they pertain to career
guidance programs.
- provide technical assistance to
secondary/postsecondary programs to increase their knowledge and
skills in career counseling, and knowledge of labor market trends.
- provide information about in-state and out-of-state
educational programs with emphasis on the four South Dakota
postsecondary technical institutes.
- serve as Chairperson of the SD Career Council, a
network of agencies providing career services and programs to students
and adults.
- in cooperation with the Dept of Labor, supervise
activities of the SD Career Council to include strategic planning,
in-service training, curriculum development, project budget
development and preparation of the annual Perkins grant application.
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