Welcome to Our Career Exploration for High School Students Homeschool Curriculum

Getting Started with Our Career Exploration for High School Students Homeschool Course

Carol Topp’s Career Exploration for high school students homeschool elective course guides the teen through a process they can use to discover what career path or college major to pursue. Career Exploration is not designed to tell the homeschool teen exactly what they will do with the rest of their life, but only a possible direction to take next. Lessons include informative articles, self-inventory worksheets, relevant websites, and inspiring true stories. Together, these tools help the teens explore career possibilities and discover talents and interests they may not realize they possess. These lessons are best taken in sequential order as they progressively build on each other.

Overview

• 8 weeks, 1 day a week
• Includes downloadable lessons and links to additional information
• Grades 7th-12th

Supplies Needed

Corresponding lessons on SchoolhouseTeachers.com

What to Do

Go to Class Lessons and download the lesson plan and Week 1 lesson. Start with the Day 1 reading assignment. Follow the instructions each day on the lesson plan and check them off when completed.

More About Our Career Exploration for High School Students Homeschool Course

Carol Topp welcomes homeschool teens to this eight-week career exploration for high school students course. The goal of career exploration is to learn a process of discovery and research to make a decision on a career path or a college major to pursue. At the end of these homeschool elective lessons, some students may not know what they would like to be “when they grow up,” but they will know what direction to take for the next step in life.

No one knows the future, so don’t expect your teen to have his entire adult life figured out as a high school student. All he needs to do now is try to get an idea of what the next phase of life might hold.

Many adults change careers and hold several different jobs over their working career. The same will probably be true for the present-day teen.

Carol Topp shares that she has had these careers as an adult:

• Industrial engineer
• Cost analyst
• Church treasurer
• Nonprofit consultant
• Bookkeeper
• Accounting software trainer
• Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
• Author
• Public speaker
• High school teacher

See what she means? Lots of careers. She never knew what would be coming next, but she tried to use the skills she was learning in each job for whatever did come next.

Mrs. Topp is an author, accountant, and retired homeschool mother. She homeschooled both of her daughters for fourteen years, all the way through high school. They are now each pursuing the next phase in their lives. She transitioned from being a homeschool mom to being a business owner by using her accounting education and homeschool experience to help homeschool leaders though her website, HomeschoolCPA.com. She also enjoys helping teenagers start microbusinesses through her books and website, MicroBusinessForTeens.com.

Carol Topp developed these career exploration for high school students lessons from a class she taught at her homeschool co-op. Her goal with this course is that homeschool students learn a lot about themselves and begin to think about some possible careers as they progress through the homeschool elective lessons.