CERES Secondary Materials Grades 7-12

Quick Facts

Range: ages 12-18, 7th through 12th grade

Career Education Responsive to Every Student

Integrate career concepts into your existing curriculum
Help students discover the relationship between getting basic skills
and getting a good job
Get parents and others in the community invested
and involved in each student's future

Career Education Responsive to Every Student (CERES) is a full line of career education materials for grades K-12. It is a flexible program designed to work with existing curriculum providing a means of infusing career education into basic skills instruction. The curriculum lessons focus on connecting academic abilities to the workplace, while helping students develop knowledge about career options and the US economic system. CERES is a nationally validated K-12 school-to-career program that integrates nine career education competencies (the CERES Guidance Goals) throughout the curriculum.

The CERES Secondary Material
(Five curriculum plans are available to meet your needs)

The Compendium of School-To-Career Educational Infusion Activities is available for grades 7-8 and grades 9-12. These two Compendiums provide a selected set of lesson plans with worksheets that can be used by teachers to infuse career education concepts into all curriculum areas. There are activities for subject areas such as foreign languages, literature and science, all of which relate the CERES Guidance Goals to these specific subjects.

The Compendium of Career Education Integration Activities is available for grades 7-12. This Compendium is a series of lesson plans organized by school subject area that facilitates the integration of career education into a school system. These lesson plans are also related to the CERES Guidance Goals. The activities are organized by subject area such as Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, Art, ESL, Health, and Physical Education.

The Compendium of School-To-Career Education Guidance Materials is available for grades 7-8 and grades 9-12. These two Compendiums provide a set of career guidance activities that may be implemented in the secondary grades to complete a comprehensive four-year guidance plan. The CERES Guidance Goals are used as the basis for setting up a four-year plan with lessons for career exploration and job search skills.

There is a set of Physical Education Workbooks that integrates career education into the physical education curriculum.