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Planning for your Child ’ s Future

Planning for your Child ’ s Future. This Evening What we d o at South Island School What you can do to help Q & A Martin Campion and Lauren Sharman. Planning for your Child ’ s Future. Transitions Primary to Secondary Option Choices Higher Education Career.

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Planning for your Child ’ s Future

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  1. Planning for your Child’s Future This Evening What we do at South Island School What you can do to help Q & A Martin Campion and Lauren Sharman

  2. Planning for your Child’s Future Transitions Primary to Secondary Option Choices Higher Education Career

  3. Developing an Understanding of: • Self – strengths, preferences, values, dreams. • Life - and the place of one’s career within it. • Careers – Types, Nature, Context, Changes • Pathways – through School and Higher Education

  4. Careers Preparation Years 7-10 Year 7 Reflecting On Me. What’s Success? Habits of Mind Careers Skills

  5. Careers Preparation Years 7-10 Year 8 Emphasis on Identity Communication Skills – esp. Visual Memory and Learning Strategies Communities/Cities/Social Awareness

  6. Careers Preparation Years 7-10 Year 9 THE REAL GAME MY BRILLIANT CAREER THE REAL BIG GAME IGCSE/BTEC Option Choice program Careers Search Careers Afternoon

  7. Careers Preparation Years 7-10 Year 10 KUDOS Diagnostic/Interactive Program to Explore Career Preferences, Matches, Career Groups and links with education and training. Personal Project Enterprise/ Global Perspectives option

  8. Higher Education Preparation Years 11-13 Year 11 Work Experience Week Y11 Future Choices Program Morrisby Testing Formal Careers Interviews Application and Interview Skills

  9. Time Line for Year 11 Option Choice Process 2013-14

  10. Higher Education Preparation Years 11-13 Year 11 Work Experience Week Y11 Future Choices Program Morrisby Testing Formal Careers Interviews Application and Interview Skills

  11. Higher Education Preparation Years 11-13 Year 12 Careers Centre Induction 100s of University Visitors + HE Fairs Y12 HE Prep Program - General/Country Specific Drop-In Sessions

  12. HE Evenings by Destination – UK/USA/HK/Can/Aus Individual HE Research Jan-June Formal HE Interviews – May/June CVs and Interview Skills

  13. Higher Education Preparation Years 11-13 Year 13 HE Application Prep Sessions - Country Specific HE Applicant Interviews by Destination Follow Up/Mock Interviews/Results Day Advice

  14. What Can Parents Do? • Have casual conversations with your children about their aspirations. Keep an open mind in doing so. • Show support and encouragement for their developing skills and interests both in class and beyond. • Emphasise the work-based values of reliability, honour, dignity and effort in the context of home and school. • Instill sense of respect for all types of work and workers. • Talk about your own job and or take them to work. • Help them to explore occupations through workplace visits, service opportunities, part-time work etc. • Discuss and support their decision-making in relation to option choices and later their Higher Education plans.

  15. Why Higher Education? It’s what SIS students do. It’s what’s expected of me. It’s a measure of my success. It’s necessary to pursue my vocation. To get a good job and a higher income. To get a Liberal Arts Education / Learn to Learn. To test my limits, try new things, make new friends To reconnect with my country of origin.

  16. Pain or Pleasure? Wealth of Choice or Agony of Choice? Country Major Institution

  17. Sources of Support You and your knowledge of yourself. Your Family and their encouragement. Your teachers: Subject, Tutor and House staff The Careers and Higher Education Provision 100s of HE visitors, HE Fairs and College Visits Careers Website and Careers Centre A steady gradual approach

  18. Sources of Stress Procrastination Focusing on what others are doing Rumour and Gossip External Agencies that feed on your anxiety. Superficial Research and poor use of Resources (Printed, Online and Human) Failing to see or recognise the obvious. Uncles

  19. Some Common Hong Kong Myths • ESF Schools are ‘British’ and know little of US Higher Education • SATs are the most crucial factor in US College admissions and that they need special preparation from ‘experts’. • That there is a ‘secret’ to getting into the Ivy League or Oxbridge. • Other parents and their children know how to play the system. • An impressive long list of extra-curricular activities is essential in applying to the most selective universities. • The only ‘good’ universities are in the UK, USA and perhaps HK. • If I haven’t heard of it, it can’t be that good. • You need to take Business or Economics at school to get into a Business or Economics course at university. • We get students into their chosen universities.

  20. South Island’s U.S.A. Destinations 1993 Smith College Stanford U of San Francisco Brown U of Rochester Purdue U of Michigan Penn State Tufts UC Santa Barbara Northwestern Stanford U of Arizona Beloit Harvard U Penn U of Michigan Memphis State Idaho State

  21. Georgetown Villanova U Penn U of Miami Ringling Florida Tech. Lynn Emerson Bentley Brandeis Harvard Babson Wellesley Suffolk Tufts Boston College Boston U Northeastern MIT Providence College UConn Trinity College RISD U of Rhode Island Bryant Brown McGill Concordia U of Ottawa Carleton Queens Trent Ryerson OCAD U of Toronto UOIT York Seneca Brock Western Ontario Waterloo Wilfred Laurier Sheridan Institute UBC Emily Carr Simon Fraser Camosun College U of Victoria Malaspina U.College Quest U of Washington Cornish Arts Coll. Puget Sound Pacific Lutheran Linfield George Fox U of Oregon Willamette Univ. Lewis and Clark U of Portland Reed Cal State East Bay Foothill and De Anza U of the Pacific U of San Francisco St Mary’s College Dominican Stanford Menlo College Chapman U of San Diego Marymount College Harvey Mudd Pitzer Scripps La Verne Whittier USC Cal Lutheran CalArts Pepperdine Occidental Loyola Marymount SCAD Atlanta SCAD Savannah U of Calgary U of Alberta U of Lethbridge ACAD Fairleigh Dickinsen Kwantlen Poly U Langara College Royal Roads Univ. Illinois Tech DePaul Art Inst. Chicago Columbia College Loyola U. Chicago Northwestern U of Illinois (U-Ch) U of Chicago Marist College Vassar College West Point Bard Wesleyan U Quinnipiac U Yale Sacred Heart Fairfield Sarah Lawrence Manhattanville Marymount Mhtn Barnard Columbia NYU Pratt Institute Poly inst. of NYU Berkeley College Rutgers Salve Regina

  22. Some Common Hong Kong Myths • ESF Schools are ‘British’ and know little of US Higher Education • SATs are the most crucial factor in US College admissions and that they need special preparation from ‘experts’. • That there is a ‘secret’ to getting into the Ivy League or Oxbridge. • Other parents and their children know how to play the system. • An impressive long list of extra-curricular activities is essential in applying to the most selective universities. • The only ‘good’ universities are in the UK, USA and perhaps HK. • If I haven’t heard of it, it can’t be that good. • You need to take Business or Economics at school to get into a Business or Economics course at university. • We get students into their chosen universities.

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