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Alaska Career Ready is for educators:  teachers, school counselors, administrators, and other educational professionals!

• Want to help your students acquire the foundational skills needed for further education or the workplace?
• Want to give your students a way to connect what they learn in school with what they'll need on the job or in future training?
• Want to show your students what skills are really required by specific jobs or occupations?
• Want to help focus your students’ attention on their future?

Alaska Career Ready can help you do these things and more!

With Alaska Career Ready, you will know what skills employers want and be able to integrate them into your teaching and guidance activities.  By using the WorkKeys skills and targets for instruction, you can get ideas for building these foundational skills into your existing curriculum.

Don't want to re-invent the wheel?  Alaska Career Ready provides a free online curriculum (WIN) that is targeted towards foundational skill-building. The lessons are focused on learning how to use foundational skills in the workplace. Beginning in 2010-2011, sixth and eighth-graders will be required to take placement tests contained in WIN.  The entire curriculum is available right now, however, at no charge to ALL public school students!

• WorkKeys Information for Educators
• WIN Information for Educators

For more information about the Alaska Career Program--training schedule, the skills, teaching strategies, placement tests and lessons, job profiles, K-8 career activity lessons, the education regulations, or the WorkKeys assessments--please use the menu links at the left, or contact the Department of Education and Early Development, Marcia Olson, phone 907-465-8704 or email marcia.olson@alaska.gov.

Career Information Resources

Below are links to a variety of helpful career information and guidance resources you may use with your students.

• Using your WorkKeys Scores - what do the scores mean?  Look at the WorkKeys skills needed for hundreds of occupations - and sample wages for those occupations.
• Career Clusters - an overview of the 16 Clusters
• Free, quick, and easy Interest Survey based on the 16 Career Clusters
• Career Clusters and sample occupations in each cluster
• University of Alaska System - Career Pathways (find out what's available in Alaska!)
• 4-year High School Plan Template - helps figure out what classes to take in high school and beyond
• AKCIS - Alaska Career Information System - a free online career exploration tool with Alaska-specific occupational and educational information.  If you have not used AKCIS, contact:  C.J. Allison, Alaska Commission on Postsecondary Education, (907) 269-7974 or christiane.allison@alaska.gov.
• Alaska Department of Labor & Workforce Development Career Center - a wealth of up-to-date information about jobs, wages, and training in Alaska
• WIN Careers - a free website with many useful links to other career information resources.  You can also search for jobs with specific WorkKeys skill requirements.  (Login with wincareers for the username and akak for the password.)
• Career Voyages- yet another FREE website with awesome career information.  Links for students and parents.
• "Want a Great Career?" poster
  
  

  Click on the image of the poster above to view or download the entire poster as a one-page PDF document.