| School to Careers encourages
parents to become involved in their child’s career education. Here are ten things
parents can do: |
| 1. |
Encourage your child to investigate a variety of
careers. Talk about work and your own job. |
| 2. |
Stress to your child that school is their work.
Attendance and performance are important. |
| 3. |
Explore with your child, without being judgmental, his
or her personal talents, strengths, likes and dislikes. |
| 4. |
Help your child experience first hand as many different
work situations as possible. Through your employer, friends, and relatives, get your teen
to take advantage of both formal and informal work exposure programs. Washoe County School
District high schools provide a variety of "work-based learning" programs
including job shadowing and internships. Contact your child’s high school Career
Opportunity Center to learn more about work exposure and other career education programs:
| Contact Name |
Phone Number |
|
Contact Name |
Phone Number |
| Galena HS Ed
Markovich |
(702) 851-5630 |
Reno HS Jane
Houston |
(702) 333-5050 |
| Gerlach HS Debbie
Forster |
(702) 557-2328 |
Sparks HS Kathy
Archuleta |
(702) 535-5550 |
| Glenn Hare Carolyn
Llewellyn |
(702) 333-5380 |
Washoe HS Kevin
Rutherford |
(702) 333-5150 |
| Hug HS Judie
Elliott |
(702) 333-5390 |
Wooster HS Sharon
Cossette |
(702) 333-5100 |
| Incline HS Shelah
Brown |
(702) 832-4226 |
TMCC Phil
Johncock |
(702) 673-7220 |
| McQueen HS Gwen
Brown |
(702) 746-5856 |
UNR Jan Sloan |
(702) 784-4762 |
| Reed HS Toni
Cunning |
(702) 353-5700 |
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| 5. |
Provide as many opportunities as you can for your child
to learn about computers and technology. This knowledge is essential for success in the
workplace. |
| 6. |
Inform yourself of the wide variety of career education
services and activities provided by Washoe County schools. The Career Opportunity Centers
listed above can provide you with this information. |
| 7. |
Talk to your teen about a career as a goal of education.
It’s okay that teens usually don’t know what they want to do for the rest of
their lives. What’s not okay is avoiding thinking about future career goals
altogether. Preparing for a career is part of what education is about. Don’t let your
son or daughter get short-changed. |
| 8. |
Guide your teenager toward acquiring skills. Every
employment opportunity requires people to use both head and hand skills. Encourage your
teen to take courses that give him or her the opportunity to apply skills, like
key-boarding, automotive technology, accounting, graphic design, construction, journalism,
marketing. These are equally important to both college-bound and non-college bound teens. |
| 9. |
Give your teen responsibility, the more the better.
Begin with jobs around the house or for a neighbor or an older relative. Young people need
to learn that we all have to carry our own weight, that we’re all important and that
people rely on us to get things done. |
| 10. |
Suggest that your teen consider career opportunities
that were once considered only for males or only for females. There are often excellent
job opportunities for persons entering non-traditional career fields. It may take extra
commitment to cross gender lines, but there are rewards. |
Washoe
Co. K-16 Council
