Today, there are 105 TAG students from middle and high schools who participated in the program. Eubanks can only smile as she reviews a long list of jobs and occupations chosen by previous mentoring students. The Career Preview Program is open to students, grades 8-10. In most cases, students must complete a formal application and approval process. Besides spending time with a mentor, students prepared journals, conducted a job profile and career interview with their mentor, and presented an oral summary of their experience to CCSD staff, faculty, parents and sometimes with peers at their respective schools.
Students are responsible for locating a mentor participant and logging hours.
They can also volunteer hours for credit. Lesko rates the student s oral presentations as the pinnacle of the program. He s especially attuned to students as they describe learned skills or integrate jargon and language syntax in relating their experiences. It adds a bit of sophistication, he said. The summaries are also a helpful method to assess and measure each individual s experience and program performance.