Education Now has produced a number of counseling tools and resources that counselors, educators, librarians and youth leaders can use to help student with college and career development. Take a few minute to review all of the products on this page to determine their utility in helping you serve college and career bound students.

Building a Career and College Center

Written by veteran counselor Frank Burtnett, Building a Career and College Center includes dozens of ideas for student activities and services and identifies hundreds of print, media and Internet resources just waiting to be acquired and used. Dr. Burtnett offers a series of "tips" throughout the guide that will make the work of the Center creator or manager easier and more efficient than ever. Unlike any guide to date, it emphasizes the need to create a career and college "culture" and offers strategies for doing just that.

Topics: Following is a list of "nuts and bolts" topics that are included in the guide:

Why a Career & College Center?
Understanding Career and Educational Development and the Role of Information in
Counseling
Stages in the Development and Maintenance of the Career & College Center
Identification and Acquisition of Center Space, Furnishings and Equipment
Identification and Acquisition of Center Resources
Creating a User Friendly and Efficient Environment and Responding to the Needs of
Diverse Users
Evaluating Resources, Activities, Services and the Overall Center Program
Using the Internet and Emerging Technologies
Staffing the Center
Creating and Managing the Center Budget
Publicizing Center Programs, Activities and Services
Involving Students, Parents, Educators and the Community in the Center
Closing Thoughts ~ A Center for the Future: Prospects and Possibilities

Order this valuable guide today and soon you will be taking steps to improve the career and college guidance programs in your school, college or youth serving organization.

Cost: $48, plus $5 shipping and handling. Total: $53

Bridge to College Training Guide

Written by veteran counselor and educator Dr. Frank Burtnett, the Bridge to College Training Guide includes everything the counselor, educator or youth leader needs to conduct classes, workshops or seminar on the high-school to college transition.

The Bridge to College Training Guide is divided into the following four modules:

• Student Awareness of Self
• Learning About Colleges
• Unlocking the Mysteries of the College Admission Process
• College Cost and Financial Aid: What's the Real Bottom Line?

Included in each module, trainers will find:

• Goals: The college guidance objectives of the module.
• Audience: The student or parent population most likely to benefit from the information contained in the module.
• Visual aids and handouts: Materials presenters may reproduce as overhead transparencies and/or handouts for participants.
• Resources needed to enhance presentation: Suggested items that presenters can acquire for distribution to or as "pass around" items for participants.
• Message: The core information---in script form---the presenter will convey to participants.
• Strategies: Teaching techniques and tips that presenters can employ to enhance the message.
• Bibliographies: Print and electronic resources for students and parents.

Everything you require to present student and parent programs is contained in this "user friendly" training guide, organized in a loose-leaf notebook. All the trainer needs to do is compliment the content by describing his/her program and services to participants. Acquire the Bridge to College Training Guide today and soon you will be ready to set dates and begin inviting students to your own college admission and financial aid workshops.

Cost: $75, plus $5 shipping and handling. Total: $80

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