0304_pk12_ced-career-development.pdf

National Career Development Guidelines The FRAMEWORK The National Career Development Guidelines (NCDG) are a framework for building a comprehensive career development program and for incorporating career development concepts into the classroom. Using the NCDG framework, career development professionals, school administrators or community leaders can create high-quality career development programs that: • Help students acquire skills they’ll need to move successfully to college or a job after high school graduation; • Help students achieve more by linking classroom study to future choices; and • Help adults acquire new skills and move through career transitions. Organization of the Framework The framework is organized into three domains, goals that support those domains, and indicators of mastery under each goal. The indicators are further grouped by learning stage (knowledge acquisition, application, reflection). Domains and Goals The three framework domains are Personal Social Development (PS), Educational Achievement and Lifelong Learning (ED) and Career Management (CM). These describe the three general areas in which students and adults need to master career development skills. Under each domain are a series of goals (eleven in total). The goals describe broad areas of career development competency. Indicators and Learning Stages Under each goal in the framework are indicators of mastery that highlight the knowledge and skills needed to achieve that goal. Each indicator is presented in three learning stages derived from Bloom’s Taxonomy; knowledge acquisition, application and reflection. The stages describe learning competency. They are not tied to an individual’s age or level of education. Knowledge Acquisition (K). Youth and adults at the knowledge acquisition stage expand awareness and build comprehension. They can recall, recognize, describe, iden