Discuss the implications for career guidance at the elementary level
What will be an ideal response?
• Self-concepts begin to form in early childhood.
• An important aspect of career development is to build an understanding of strengths and limitations.
• Elementary school children imitate role models in the home and school.
• Children learn to associate work roles with sexual stereotypes at an early age.
• Community resources provide a rich source of career information, role models, and exposure to a wide range of careers.
• Self-awareness counseling is a major goal of the growth stage in elementary schools.
• Learning to assume responsibility for decisions and actions has major implications for career decisions to be made in the future.
• Understanding the relationships between education and work is a key concept for enhancing career development.
• The concept that all work is important builds an understanding of why parents and others work.
• Learning about occupations and about people who are actually involved in occupations builds an awareness of differences among people and occupations.
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