This updated instructor’s guide is designed to accompany two separate student workbooks—Creating Your High School Portfolio and Creating Your High School Resume—both in their second editions. It is a must-have tool for educators using one or both workbooks in their classes and programs and allows them to infuse portfolio and resume creation into their curriculums with ease. The guide helps instructors direct students through portfolio and resume material that is important for career planning and future jobs. It features over 80 unique, practical activities for career planning and exploration; over 30 overhead transparency masters to copy; and many teaching ideas and tips for helping students plan their careers, create portfolios, and write resumes. Page numbers of the workbooks are conveniently cross-referenced throughout the instructor’s guide.

The instructor’s guide helps educators meet most of the high school competencies in the National Career Development Guidelines, including those for self-knowledge, for educational and occupational exploration, and for career planning.

Key Features:

• Helps instructors use the workbooks as a complete program or as supplemental material in existing curriculum.
• Helps instructors infuse portfolios and resumes into their curriculum through a wide range of activities that can be done in class or as homework.
• Features material for integrating portfolio and resume instruction together, including activities that help students look at their skills, research job options, and compile data to use in their portfolios and resumes.
• Over 80 individual and group activities with a wide variety of objectives help students think about themselves, their education, and their careers.
• Over 30 reproducible transparency masters stress important points in each workbook, giving instructors the flexibility to cover the content as desired.
• The instructor’s guide is completely updated to match the new editions of both workbooks.
• The instructor’s guide is cross-referenced to workbook pages to make class preparation much easier.

• Creating Your High School Resume - Add item to shopping cart below.  This classroom-tested workbook shows students how to turn courses, activities, natural abilities, and accomplishments into resumes that get results—no work experience needed. Worksheets take students step-by-step through the resume-writing process. Includes many examples, tips, and case studies that show how to focus, organize, write, format, and use resumes. The workbook’s structure allows it to be used as a complete curriculum or as part of a course or program that includes career issues and resume development.

  Key Features:

  • Students learn to articulate their skills and their strengths as they create their resumes.
  • Clear narration and questions help students build resumes section by section.
  • Inspiring case studies of real students reveal the rationale behind their resumes.
  • Dozens of high-interest examples show how to focus, organize, write, and format resumes.
  • Students learn how to format their resumes using electronic tools, how to use the Web and e-mail effectively for research and contacts, and how to manage electronic resume files.
  • Helpful job search information explains how to find a mentor, get informational interviews, write cover letters, find job openings, and much more.
  • Includes helpful instructor’s guide.

    New for this edition:

    • Updated information on using the Web and other technology in resume preparation.
    • More examples and information for students in technical and vocational programs.
    • More diversity in the resume examples, including resumes for average and struggling students.
    • Job Resume Outline form for students to fill in with all the information that will be included in their resumes.
    • Many updates for clarity and interest, based on the author’s experience in using the workbook in classrooms.

    144 pp., 8.5 x 11, softcover
    2003