Vocational Notebooks
VOCATIONAL NOTEBOOKS:
Recording Your High School Experience
A COMPREHENSIVE VOCATIONAL APPROACH
We are implementing a vocational approach at Waverly High School that is aimed at assisting students in keeping track of their high school experiences. Each freshmen, sophomore, junior, and senior student will maintain an individual vocational notebook that will serve as a record book of his or her academics, participation, career interests, and college and scholarship pursuits. Starting with the freshmen year, all students will add documents to their individual notebooks during all four of their high school years. We, along with select teachers, will also add course papers, applications, assessment scores, and other documents to the notebooks along the way. Students will walk away with the valuable notebook information when they graduate.
GET INVOLVED
A student’s vocational notebook will begin with a participation section. Participation in clubs, athletics, community programs, and other activities is important and often crucial to students when they become upperclassmen and begin applying for scholarships or membership to certain organizations. Activities, honors, awards, community service, and part-time employment will help students build resumes or portfolios that they can use to show an employer or college recruiter. The student’s lists of participation will also become extremely helpful as he or she completes college and scholarship applications.
ACCESS TO NOTEBOOKS
Notebooks will be available through the high school library. Students may check out their notebooks and add documents and other important information as needed. They may also use their notebooks in class to assist with class assignments and projects. Students are responsible for their individual notebooks just as they are when they have checked out a library book.
A vocational notebook is a useful tool for organizing and recording students’ many accomplishments. We invite parents and guardians to inspect their student’s notebook in the library during parent/teacher conferences.
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Educational Service Unit #6, Milford, Nebraska
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