Making Effective Use of ICAP Templates

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1 Making Effective Use of ICAP Templates Save yourself some time and effort! Using one of our pre-defined Individual Career and Academic Plan (ICAP) templates will save you a lot of time and in no way reduces your creativity or ability to customize. Follow these simple steps to begin: 1. Review the three templates. Which one or combination (you can assign ICAPs by grade or to groups of students so they actually can have more than one) is most consistent with how you would like to approach ICAP with your students? a. By-Grade Sample This template has a page for each grades 6 th through 12 th. Sections within each page are titled Discover Your Path, Design Your Plan, Define Your Future b. By-Topic Sample This template has a page each for important topics in career and postsecondary planning c. Postsecondary Options Sample This template illustrates how an ICAP may be set up to help students explore a single, complex topic. Each page discusses a different aspect of the topic, in this case, alternative postsecondary options Following is a table that outlines structural characteristics of the three templates. Template Pages Sections # of Activities By-Grade Sample By-Topic Sample Comments 6 th Discover, Design, Define 8 Duplicate and rename this set once 7 th Discover, Design, Define 7 for all grades or twice; to use as one middle school and one high school 8 th Discover, Design, Define 9 ICAP. Sections are designed so that 0 th Discover, Design, Define 9 students are working on a section 10 th Discover, Design, Define 8 during each of 3 seasons pertinent to career, college and financial 11 Discover, Design, Define 11 aid/literacy exploration, planning and 12th Discover, Design, Define 12 goal setting/decision making. Ideal if your school can resource ICAP completion during consecutive grades. Money Budget, Income, Money 5 Duplicate and rename this set to use Management, Your Budget across grades for deeper Career My Interest, My Skills, My Career, 13 understanding of various topics. Career Outlook Sections are designed to help Scholarships Financial Aid Overview, 5 students with overall concepts in the Scholarships I & II, Profile first couple of activities on each page 4-year College Major, Programs & 9 with additional exploration and college Majors, Essay, Letter of synthesis of ideas building on the Recommendation, College basic concepts. This ICAP provides a Admissions Tool, Practice practical application within each area. Applications For example, students complete a After HS Interest Profiler, Programs & 8 budget, complete applications and Options Majors, After High School, Apply use calculators. Subject area teachers

2 Postsecondary options sample Financial Aid Resume Explore Options Certificates 2-Year 4-Year Apprentice ships Military Employment Aid Overview, Programs & Majors, Postsecondary Schools, SLOPE Calculator Resume I & II, Workplace Behavior, Resume Builder The Future Me, Why Choose a Career, Which Career is Right for You, Love your Career, Options During and After High School, Goals Money & Lifestyle What is a Certificate Program?, Where Can I Earn a Certificate?, What Can I Study? What Jobs can I Get?, What are the Benefits, Continuing to a 4- Year Degree What Kind of College Fits You?, Am I Smart Enough to go to College?, How You can Afford to go to College, Invest in Your Own Future, Scholarships are for Everyone What is an Apprenticeship?, What Careers have Apprenticeships?, What is Learning on the Job Like? Different Service, Expectations & Demands, Is the Military Right for You?, Military Careers, Are you Eligible to Join, Educational Benefits and More Thinking about Getting a Job?, Tools for Getting a Job, Are you an Entrepreneur?, 7 could implement one page of the appropriate topic s activities into their curriculum and track 6 achievement of their student group of that page Duplicate and rename this set to use with a specific grade or set of students to help them understand all of the various options to pursue after high school. Could be used in conjunction with a By-Grade style ICAP since activities students have already completed will show complete in any other ICAP. 2. Ensure that you have discussed how ICAP will be implemented in your school. Do you have the time and staff resources to work with each grade of students, perhaps during an advisement period? Is it more likely that classroom teachers would do a page of the activities during a class? How ICAP will be implemented may dictate which ICAP template you choose. 3. Review the activities and sections of each page in each template. Sometimes this is easier to do first by looking at the ICAP from a student s perspective. Be sure to open any student worksheets associated with the activities as well as instructional text.

3 To look at an ICAP template from the student perspective, use the shadow account as follows: a. Go into the Professional Center, Administration tab. Click on Define, edit and assign Individual Career and Academic Plans in the Edit ICAPs section. b. Click on Assign to grades/roles under any ICAP template name. c. Temporarily assign the ICAP template you want to explore first to the 12 th grade and click the SAVE button. In the example above, we have started with the By- Grade Sample.

4 d. Click on the College In Colorado logo at the top left of the page to return to the home page. Then click on the CIC.org logo in the right column to open the 12 th grade student shadow account. e. The student account will open to the home page of a 12 th grade student. Click on the Your Portfolio tab and then the ICAP template name to explore the ICAP template. Click on the grade tabs at the top to explore the activities for each grade.

5 f. Follow the instructions above, c, d. and e, to explore each template of interest from the student perspective. g. When you have reviewed all the templates of interest, be sure to reset the 12 th grade ICAP assignment to none assigned so that your students don t see the ICAP yet. 4. Once you decide which template to use, go to the Professional Center and log into your Administrators account. (If you do not have an account that shows the Administration tab when you log in and you are the person who is supposed to be setting up ICAP for your school, contact Twyla.Esquibel@cic.state.co.us for your school s administrator code (AC) and create an account with that code. Or, if there is another individual who has AC access at your school, talk with them.) 5. Navigate Administration > Define, edit and assign Individual Career and Academic Plans. Click the duplicate button next to the ICAP template you wish to use in this example, we are duplicating the By Grade Sample template. 6. Scroll towards the bottom of the page. You will see a copy of the template you just duplicated. 7. Click on the underlined Copy title and then click the pencil next to the name.

6 8. Rename and save the copy of the template. You are now ready to do whatever you wish to your ICAP. 9. Reorder and/or remove activates, worksheets, sections or pages that you don t wish to use. Add activities, documents, instructional text into existing sections. Be sure to contact your Outreach and Access Coordinator for more information regarding training on setting up and using CollegeInColorado.org for ICAP! Find your Coordinator at Outreach_and_Resources.aspx