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Eighth Grade

Purpose
Life advice about career choices for your consideration -
What Is Your Purpose In Life, Live in Your Gift, Steve Harvey (4:06)
Why does Steve say people hate waking up?
Can you identify something you do better than others, but with less effort than them?
Don't Follow Your Passion, Follow Opportunity, Mike Rowe (5:19)
What is the skills gap?
How can you bring your passion with you?
One of the purposes of HS is to find something of which you want to be an expert, an interest path, and if you can find more than one path, then you have an opportunity to use your imagination and creativity to cross those paths to make a new path.
What are you becoming an expert at? (what can you teach someone else?)
 
Guidance Activities
  1. Before attempting to complete page 7 of the practice packet, please complete the online Xello (login link) Matchmaker "About Me" activity & save at least 3 careers (click the heart & then select 1 of the 5 faces).
  2. Practice Packet for Academic Planning at Panorama HS (attachment)
    1. HS course awareness (mapping required and electives based on students individual goals & interests)
  3. After practice packet we will use the Xello "Course planner" (8th Grade Graduation Plan & Parent Signature), and share plans to get parent input.
  4. College & Career Ready - Life After High School; A Guide to Career and College Planning
    1. Future Ready Iowa (70 percent of Iowa's workforce with education or training beyond HS by 2025)
    2. Know yourself (Xello activities), Try It Out - learn by doing, Growing Industry Opportunities, HS Courses/GPA/Entrance Exams, Options After HS, Visit Campus & Programs, Scholarships & FAFSA, Senior Resume, Applying, Deciding
    3. More options
      1. Americorps of Iowa - https://www.volunteeriowa.org/individuals/americorps
      2. U.S. Armed Forces - school guidance webpage overviewing Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, & Coast Guard
College Courses during High School
  1. Depending upon the graduation year, 7 to 9 out of 10 of Panorama graduates earn college credit during HS.
  2. The cost of college is made up of several fees, the first one most people think of is the tuition (tuition is the cost of taking a college course).
  3. HS students can take college courses tuition free.
    1. Do you know of any college courses you can take at PHS?
  4. Consider the cost of taking Algebra at college...a skill set needed in other courses that follow in HS, college, and many careers.
    1. DMACC is our college partner, here is their tuition page ($178 per credit for Fall 2022).
    2. Iowa State University is closest state college to PHS, many graduates attend, here is ISU's tuition page ($363 per credit for Winter 2023).
    3. Buena Vista University is one of the many private colleges PHS graduates attend, here is BVU's tuition page ($1,300 per hour).
    4. How many college credits/hours are there for college algebra?
  5. What college course(s) would you like to take during HS?
    1. Where can you look to see college course options?
  6. What are other ways PHS graduates lower their cost of attending college?
    1. Know the names of any local scholarships?
    2. Know any PHS grads who accepted college recruitment scholarships for academics, sports, or fine arts? Know any company programs that cover cost of college?
    3. Know anyone who joined a US military program and used program to cover college costs? 
    4. Know any PHS grads going to college but living at home and working part-time?