Educational and Career Planning Educational and Career Planning Educational and Career Planning is a Life-Long Learning Process. Young children learn about jobs and occupations from their parents, families, relatives, and neighbors. School provides children with many opportunities to develop skills, to acquire and to demonstrate their knowledge. As children's experiences grow and expand so does their knowledge ofand choices about careers. Children learn quickly that not every one will be an athlete or a lawyer, even though they may still believe that they will be that one out of 7500 who will be the professional athlete or the high-paid lawyer who always wins the toughest case.
Children go through fascinations and phases like studying dinosaurs or bugs.
All these experiences are part of the life-long learning process. During middle school and high school, these young people question their talents, skills, and dreams. Adolescence typically is a dynamic time of changes and challenges. Here are some resources for parents and adolescents in the career planning process. WisCareers matches students interests with occuptions and the corresponding career pathwaysand the institutions which offer the appropriate education.