[Mo-facs] Opportunities Related to Career Education for Students

[Arendt, Cynthia]

Student Workshops

 

Each year, the Missouri Chamber of Commerce & Industry offers to schools
in Missouri, three, day-long workshops for students.  These nationally
recognized workshops are unique in that each involves local business and
professional leaders as small group facilitators.  These facilitators
bring the programs to life for the students by connecting the real-world
of ethics, finance or entrepreneurship to the table discussions,
activities and simulations.

 

Briefly, the three workshops are:

 

Ethical Decision Making

   Ethical Decision Making in the Workplace and Society is a five- to
six-hour program designed to help high school seniors understand values
and ethics, how they are acquired, and how they are applied in the
workplace. Cosponsored with local chambers of commerce and schools,
students are divided into small groups based on their career choice.
Community leaders serve as consultants for each small group, as students
learn personal and group decision-making skills, develop an ethical code
based on the community's values, and then apply those values and ethics
to real-world situations.

 

Entrepreneurship Project

   This five- to six-hour workshop is designed to give high school
students an opportunity to learn about the American Free Enterprise
System and how it encourages new ideas, products and services.
Cosponsored with local chambers of commerce and schools, students are
divided into small groups with a local business leader serving as their
consultant.  Each group then develops a plan for a new business that
will provide a product or service to meet a community need.
Participants learn team building, problem solving and communication
skills as they develop a radio and newspaper ad for their new product or
service.

 


Financial Fitness for a Lifetime


  This five- to six-hour workshop is designed to give high school
students an opportunity to learn about income, spending, saving and
credit.  Students are divided into small table groups of six.  A table
leader consultant, a local banking or investment professional from the
community, serves as the "real world" guide for the students. Each table
group works through a variety of activities and simulations designed to
teach the value of education, saving, investing and budgeting, and the
responsible use of credit.

 

FBLA, DECA and FACS chapters have hosted one or more of these programs
in their schools as well as hosting regional programs including other
schools.  (District 5 FBLA in southwest Missouri holds a program each
November.)

 

The Missouri Chamber of Commerce Education Foundation does have some
grant money available for specific programs and targeted areas to help
defray the cost of the program. 

 

For more details on hosting one or more of these workshops for your
students, please contact:

 

David Lankford

Missouri Chamber of Commerce & Industry

P.O. Box 1155  428 E. Capitol

Jefferson City, MO 65102

Phone # 573-634-2414

Fax # 573-634-8855

E-mail: dlankford at mochamber.com

 

 

Cynthia K. Arendt, Ph.D.

Director, Family and Consumer Sciences 

Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

PO Box 480

Jefferson City, Mo 65102-0480

Phone 573-522-6542  Fax 573-526-4261

 

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