Area Schools

Apollo Career Center provides Career Services for all K-12 schools in the Career Technical Planning District. These schools include Ada, Allen East, Bath, Bluffton, Columbus Grove, Elida, Hardin Northern, Perry, Shawnee, Spencerville, and Wapakoneta. Career Services provided include Individual Academic Career Plans, Career Passports, Assessments, Workshops and In-Services.

Bridging Education and the World of Work

Ohio's Career Development Program provides educational services to K-12 public school districts. The goal of the program is to help Ohio's students learn more about educational and career options while they develop skills in decision-making, goal setting, work habits and attitudes. These skills are developed through career exploration activities as well as classroom integration activities. The career development activities integrate into all curriculum areas, so students can understand how the skills they are learning in the classroom relate to the skills they will need beyond the classroom.

Two activities students in the state complete are the Individual Career and Academic Plan (IACP) and the Career Passport. Click on the link below to view the IACP and the Career Passport Guidelines. Individual Academic Career Plan and Career Passport will provide you with more information.

The Ohio 's Career Development Blueprint is organized by 12 key topic areas. The 12 key topic areas include: Self-Awareness, Career Information, Academic Planning, Future Trends, Economics, Vocational Orientation, Self-Assessment, Career Exploration, Reduction of Bias, Employability Skills, and Community Involvement.

Educators need new career integration ideas as frequently as possible. Area teachers develop activity packets (nine each for elementary and middle school). Every month, K-8 educators are given new integration ideas for career activities. Each 8-10 page packet contains ready-to-use classroom ideas. The packets include worksheets, bulletin board ideas, small units of study, and teacher ideas. Each monthly packet focuses on a different curriculum area including language arts, math, science, and social studies.

The Ohio Career Information System (OCIS) is a computerized career system. It contains files that provide occupational information as well as information about higher education facilities across the country. Another file in OCIS contains approximately 400 ideas for secondary career curriculum integration. The file (called PLAN) offers bulletin boards, worksheets, teacher ideas, and small units of study - all by curriculum area.

Successful career integration takes place in the classroom when educators know what they are expected to teach, and when they are given good ideas to help them teach it. The Blueprint, the career packets, and the PLAN file have been a tremendous help in ensuring that career integration actually happens.