What's New from EdITS
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The COPSystem is now available as a convenient web-based career assessment package.
Administer assessments, view results and provide users with post-assessment resources to make testing faster and easier than ever.
To begin a free trial at your site, please complete our registration form.
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Career Guidance Solutions
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The COPSystem Career Measurement Package includes all of the materials you need to administer, score and interpret the COPS Interest Inventory, CAPS ability battery and the COPES work values survey.
Interpretation of results is organized around groupings of occupational clusters which represent the world of work.
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Wall Charts and Pocket Charts help identify the right occupation for your client.
The Career Briefs Kit provides specific job information in an easy and accessible format for all ages.
The Job Handbook is a useful resource for young adults who want a fun guide to help them prepare for the world of work.
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Career Education for Everyone
Many U.S. school districts are structuring their secondary schools around career pathways and emphasizing
the importance of career education for a myriad of reasons, some of which include the premise that
coursework relevance helps student performance and decreases dropout rates. One way to integrate
career education into school curriculum and lead students on a successful career path, is the Career
Education Responsive to Every Student (CERES) program.
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CERES is a K-12 career education curriculum based on a model of career guidance goals that are integrated with basic skills introduction. CERES provides all students in grades K-12, including special education, with opportunities to acquire workplace skills. An added benefit of integrating career education throughout the curriculum is that as students see the relevance of their course work to actual occupations or careers, interest in school increases and dropout rates decline. CERES materials are available for all K-12 levels and include a K-12 kit of special education activities.
CERES program materials:
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1. Elementary Student Workbooks and
corresponding Teacher Guides
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2. Secondary Level Infusion and Guidance Compendiums (these contain subject specific career education activities)
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3. K-12 set of Special Education Activities
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4. A variety of supplementary materials that promote collaboration with parents, local business, and community organizations
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CERES also offers training materials that promote
the adoption of the program on a school-wide
or district-wide basis. In fact, CERES is ideally suited
for adoption within a school or district and sets
the stage for students to be fully prepared for life
after high school in the working world.
Implementation workshops are developed for
school staff, district staff, or a consortium representing several districts. One full day of training with a follow-up training 6 to 8 months later is recommended.
The approximately 6-hour training session
consists of an overview, hands-on activities, a
review of materials, and ends with planning time for
classroom use. The overview introduces staff
and administrators to CERES and career education.
Activities enable participants to experience
first-hand what students are asked to do. When participants leave they know what CERES is, how to integrate career education into a classroom and what their responsibilities and plans are for the future.
If CERES is successfully implemented in a school system, academic achievement should improve, and students will be better prepared to enter the workforce directly or to continue their education. One of the most important benefits of implementing career education in all subjects is that school work becomes more meaningful, relevant and useful, and provides students with more academic motivation. By integrating career education concepts and directly relating them to curriculum, students are able to meet the goal of learning skills that help them succeed both in their academics and their occupations.
