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Career Development
A crucial emphasis in Ohio's future at work is the development of an individual career plan (ICP) by the students before they enter ninth grade. The ICP is a learning process for students that actually begins in kindergarten and continues through the eighth grade, at which time students identify and explore their initial career plans. In their ICP document, eighth-grade students identify the educational plan needed to achieve those goals both at the secondary level and beyond. High school students have additional opportunities to explore and verify their educational and career goals, and to formally review, revise, and add to their ICP document annually.
The high schools years are vital to the ICP process because it is then that students validate or change the tentative career goals they have established. career development activities help them refine their ICP's into working documents that provide meaning to their secondary education and preparation for their postsecondary choices.