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Education Preparation

and Career Building

Workshop

P r e s e nte d b y D a r b y & S h a r o n C h e c ke tt s C o r n e r s t o n e P r o f e s s i o n a l D e v e l o p m e n t

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All Progress Comes from Learning! - Do you believe it?

Choose a Career

Select a School

Get Financial Aid

Attain Your Education!

The Power of Education

“Give me a lever long enough and a place to stand and I could lift the world.”

Young Archimedes, a Parable…

As a boy, he climbed the mountain at the head of the valley where he lived. He discovered the usefulness of a walking stick that ultimately served him as a lever…to lift a large stone that had pinned a small boy’s leg…to open a gate to let an old woman’s cows into the pasture…to reach a little girl’s scarf that had blown into the branches of a tree. He discovered the power of leverage. Education is leverage for life’s challenges and opportunities.

Your Income Potential

Education YEAR LIFETIME Less than high school $22,600 $ 904,000 High School Graduate $32,000 $1,280,000 Associates Degree / Trade $40,600 $1,624,000 Bachelors Degree $56,800 $2,272,000

$1,000,000

These numbers were published a few years ago. With the fluctuations in the economy, they are still relevant as an indication of the effect educational leverage can have on one’s income. It is the million dollar effect that college represents!

Prosperity 2020

The economy will turn around. There is a Fast Train coming that will carry you to a prosperous future. The ticket to get on the train is a college education.

What-To?

How-To?

Why-To?

Scratch your head. Rack your brain. Determine the answers to the What-to, the How-to, and the Why-to of your educational strategy. The Why-to is most important of all. Why is that?

Who am I?

Am I important? To whom?

What is unique about me?

What is my personality like?

What are some talents and skills I have?

What is my potential?

What is it possible for me to create?

What Is Your Self-Concept? Are You Self-Directed?

1. Write 3 positive words that describe you.

2. Briefly describe your family.

5. List or draw 2 lifetime accomplishments.

6. List or draw 1-2 of your educational achievements.

4. List or draw 2 of your previous jobs/work projects.

3. List or draw 2 of your hobbies/interests.

7. List some of your personal and family values in the banner.

Your Coat of Arms

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3 4

5 6

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[Turn on your creativity and illustrate the following.]

Educational Goals

Goals

Challenges

Success Traits

Preparations Needed

*The Spirit of Ownership

Hey, handsome little dude, what do you want to be when you grow up?

Umm, whatever.

Actually, I’ve been thinking about being a software

engineer, a sports car buff, and a family man.

• Only goal setters who are goal writers are predictably goal achievers.

• First you set the goal and then you see.

• If you don’t see BIG, you won’t see enough.

• So let it be written, so let it be done.

…This is what I know.

The Greatest Secret of the Ages

Think

Speak

You create your world by how you think and speak about it. And, there are two systems people use: the Owner system and the Victim system. Which one works best?

Owner Victim

Commitment = Feeling Commitment = Decision

Describes life Creates life

I am happy if / when… I am happy.

Get through Get from

Pessimistic Optimistic

Low energy High energy

Discouraged Enthused

V I C T I M O W N E R

Two Systems of Life Which one works?

Commitment! A most magnificent, yet tarnished word…

It Begins in the Home

Concurrent Education

A Culture of Learning: • Talk the talk. • Walk the talk. • Plan ahead.

Freshman Sophomore Junior Senior

Freshman Sophomore Junior Senior High School

College

Friends and

Friends

Consider the effects of your friends on your goals.

Got Mentor?

Someone you can trust who has “gone this way before,” who will listen.

Someone who cares about your future and can offer wisdom and support, but who will not do it for you.

Someone who will encourage you and help you be accountable for your goals.

Choose a Career

Select a School

Get Financial Aid

Attain Your Education!

JOB… It’s not just what you do 8-10 hours a day to earn a living, it’s what you will spend more time doing than anything else. Choose well. Consider the following factors…

1. What is your passion…your source of physical, mental, and spiritual energy? 2. What do you do especially well? 3. What do you want from life? 4. Can you imagine your success?

Please visit these excellent websites…

http://money.usnews.com/money/careers

http://www.careeronestop.org/

S T E M Science

Technology

Engineering

Mathematics

Education

All education is enriching and powerful. However, in the 21st Century, it is easier to get reserved seats in the first-class cabin of the Fast Train to Prosperity with S-T-E-M education.

Salt Lake City Area Colleges & Universities

LDSBC LDS Business College

SLCC Salt Lake Community College

U of U University of Utah

Argosy University Salt Lake City

Western Governors Online University

[Here’s a sampling for one area. Research your own local options.]

Financial Resources

• Personal Savings

• FAFSA (U.S. Dept. of Education)

• Individual Colleges / Universities

• Hispanic Scholarship Fund

• New Century Scholarship Fund

• Scholarship America

• And, Google for Scholarships…

• See: prep4ed.com

Give a man a fish or teach him how to…

Sheer Creativity What’s the most creative thing you’ve ever heard

that someone did to raise money for college?

Ask the financial aid office again and again.

Write the college president.

Ask parents’ employers.

Take CLEP tests.

Work for a company for free to prove yourself.

Create a neighborhood $$ pool for school

Support Groups

YOU !

Your Support Network

Commitment!

Diligence!

Perseverance!

Effective Learning

Our Dual-Hemispheric

Tendencies to Be Downright Interesting

• More Deliberate

• Linear

• Organizer

• Values the Work

• Safeguarding Self

• Asks: What…How?

• Learns: Reading; Applying…

• Neat Notes

• More Spontaneous

• Simultaneous

• Creator

• Values Relationships

• Risk-taking Self

• Asks: Who…Why?

• Learns: Discussing; Experimenting…

• Cool Doodles

L R

Your brain is marvelous. Neither NASA nor Apple can duplicate it. There’s a left hemisphere and a right hemisphere. You’ll be really powerful if you learn to use both.

Percentage of Drivers by Age Group

A. 16-20 yrs 35%

B. 21-40 yrs 20%

C. 41-60 yrs 20%

D. 61-80 yrs 25%

16-20 yrs

21-40 yrs

41-60 yrs

61-80 yrs

These numbers are guesstimates, but that’s not the point. Here’s how the left brain and the right brain represent information.

The Six Skills of Effective Learning

Whole Person Learning: Body – Mind – Heart/Spirit

1. Reading

2. Studying

3. Pondering

4. Remembering

5. Applying

6. Teaching

27 Orchard Lane

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Capture Memory

Short-term Memory

Long-term Memory

Retention and Use Memory

How to Learn

In the “Education Preparation & Career Building” Workshop, we share more about (a) left-brain/right-brain learning, (b) the six skills of learning, and (c) how to really remember stuff.

Overcoming Fear and Resistance “Troubleshooting the Future”

What else could get in the way of my education? What can I do now to prevent these obstacles from blocking my progress?

Intangible Personal Ingredients

What’s your recipe? Success!

Learning is the key to your future

The world needs you!

- Who is depending on you?

- Who is betting on you?

Questions & Answers

What’s Next?

1. Talk with others with similar interests and goals.

2. Check to determine which jobs are most available.

3. Counsel with your mentor. Refine your goals.

4. Go to the Websites!

5. Identify the costs involved. Create a budget.

6. Google. Google. Google.

7. Schools: Go there! Introduce yourself. Make friends.

8. Financial Assistance: Apply. Apply. Apply.

Why is it all worth the effort?

These slides represent key excerpts from the “Education Preparation & Career Building” Workshop.

They serve as a self-study introduction to the full workshop.

For further information, please contact Darby & Sharon Checketts by telephone at 801-253-0895 or by email at: info@prep4ed.com.

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