Community Involvement in Education- 4/22/21

Community Helper/Career Day

Presentation objectives and standards

COMMUNITY addressed?
INVOLVEMENT IN -How we as educators can involve the community in our student’s
EDUCATION S
education by still focusing on:
- State Standards
Teachers of CFLC
By Stephanie Copp - CSTP’s
March 12, 2021

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Let’s Get Started School Centered Model

What was your dream job as an elementary school aged child?

Families

Emergency Churches
Services
Schools

Calaveras
Businesses County

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Community Helper/Career Day

Community Centered Model Community Helper Day

Schools Families ■ A typical Career Day

■ The CFLC spin for 2021
■ Target audience
Community

Business Churches

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Which model Practical Application

•Students will hear presentation
material from people who
Community Engaging
actually do these jobs!
Students

•Letting our community

members come and share in
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Involving
the education of our children.
School community

•This is tied to our state

standards and can be done in
Teaching
Standards a fun way!

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What to expect What to expect continued

■ This year we will have 4 different speakers to
present to the children. All of them will be
■ What will be discussed?
from different medical and emergency
service offices. – How these professionals arrived at their career choice
■ CHP – What they do on a daily basis
■ Fish and Game Warden – How can the students be good community members
■ Nurses from Mark Twain Hospital
■ Angels Fire Department

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What this mean for YOU! Why is this important?

-The ISA posted an article titled
Career Days: Learning for the 21st
■ What to do before before they arrive Century
where they discussed the
■ What to do during the presentations importance of career days.

-Deepen student connection

■ What to do after the presentations
-Real world application

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Community Helper/Career Day

Why is this important? What are some of the most influential

things you did as a child in school?
■ Students were then able practice their interview skills with these
professionals and have small group discussions to hear about their
day to day work lives.
■ The take away was the students were engaged and felt as though it Career
Day
made a lasting impact on them.

Science
Camp

Book
Character Projects
Day

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Now you try!

■ In your opinion, what are some ways we can include the
community in the educational process?
■ What have we done in the past that was successful?
■ What tweaks could we make to current events to create a
greater community turn out?

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