Tennessee Career Clusters Guide Fall TDCTE Meeting Nashville,Tennessee November 18, 2009.

Tennessee Career Clusters

Guide

Fall TDCTE Meeting

Nashville,Tennessee

November 18, 2009

© 2009 career communications, inc. 6701 W. 64th Street • Overland Park, KS 66202

Making Connections

Career Choices Today Are Difficult

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Definitions are fluid and changing

Expectations are very high


The Tennessee Career Clusters Guide

Provides a focus for choosing a career

Information = better decision making

Interests and skills matter

Academics apply to the real world

Tennessee-specific information


Career Myths

One career - lasts a lifetime

Money = Happiness

Hot jobs, all that matter

Counselors have the answers

Choosing a career is easy

Success is accidental

There is a perfect job out there for everyone.


Pathway to Your Future: Health Science2010 High School Graduate

Job Title #1: Optician: On-the-job training

Start work in 2010

Starting Salary: $25,319

Job Title #2: Diagnostic Medical Sonographer: Associate Degree

Start work in 2012


Job Title #3: Occupational Therapist: Bachelor’s Degree

Start work in 2014



Bring It All Together

Write a paragraph

Make a T-Chart

Write a letter

Research online

Other


Green Growth Potentialin Tennessee

45,000 new jobs from energy efficiency and renewable energy production

4,200 full-time jobs in wind and 400 in solar components manufacturing by 2015

162 occupations in 5 Tennessee energy sectors: green building, biofuels, wind, solar and geothermal energy

Source: Growing Green: The Potential for Green Job Growth in Tennessee

http://www.state.tn.us/laborwfd/Publications/EmploymentSecurity/GrowingGreenInTN2008.pdf


Resources Needed to Help Students:

Achieve in school

Transition to college or work

Make academics relevant


Tennessee Career Clusters Guide Fall TDCTE Meeting Nashville,Tennessee November 18, 2009.

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