What is the ACP?
The Academic Career Plan (ACP) is a working document that students begin at some point during their 7th grade year in their Career Exploratory Class (7th grade music students will meet with a counselor sometime during the 7th grade year to get their ACP started).
This fluid and ever changing document starts to identify how a students’ interests, strengths, and values can support their future career goals. The ACP also lays out a 4 year academic plan that supports the students interests/strengths and career goals.
Refer to the “Counseling” tab of the website to see how the CAMS School Counseling Center delivers Academic and Career Instruction at each grade level. https://cams.bcps.k12.va.us/parents/guidance/counseling
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Ways For Parents To Assist In The Career Development Process:
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Encourage your students to show you their Major Clarity account. This is a program that is introduced to them in the Spring of their 6th grade year. https://majorclarity.com/
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Help your student log all careers they have interest in learning more about. A good place to do this is in the “Journal” section of their Major Clarity Account.
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Make your child aware of the connection between education and careers. Talk about how you apply your own education to your daily work.
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Involve and encourage friends, relatives and acquaintances to talk to your child about skills and values they see in the workplace.
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Plan leisure time activities that explore interests, abilities and skills.
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Allow your child or other students to shadow you for a day at your workplace. (Shadowing is when a student attends work with an adult for a day to learn more about a career in which he/she is interested.)
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Seek other job shadowing opportunities in the community for your student.
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During vacations, work with your child to explore the occupations and careers that are abundant in your community. Review newspapers and attend business and community meetings.
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Career Resources To Help Your Student Explore:
Major Clarity: https://majorclarity.com/
**Student’s log-in with their 1770 account information
Occupational Outlook Handbook: https://www.bls.gov/ooh/
Virginia Career View: https://www.vaview.vt.edu/
BCPS Program of Study: https://www.bcps.k12.va.us/UserFiles/Servers/Server_76767/File/Parents/Resources/Registration%20Guide/BCPS%20Program%20of%20Studies%202020-21%20Final%20Publish%2001.02.20.pdf