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View all threadsHello NCL Colleagues,
I posted this to to LINCS Career Pathways and several other LINCS groups. Deborah Kennedy saw it and suggested I also send it to you.
Perhaps you can help. For several years I have been looking for simple, easy-to-read, attractive descriptions of career pathways designed to explain what career pathways means for an audience of adult basic skills learners, including immigrants learning English. The ideal would be one-page and it would be accurate, attractive, well-illustrated and with text written in plain language (English and possibly also in other languages). When I have have sent out requests in previous years, no one knew of examples. With WIOA, if anything I believe the need for this kind of graphic, designed for low-skilled adult learners, has grown.
If you know of a description or infographic that meets these criteria, please reply to me with a link to it or email it to me as an attachment.
If you don't know of one, but you are interested in developing one, or are in the process of developing one, please email me to let me know.
If you have access to a small amount of flexible funding, consider sponsoring a contest to design one, and let me know that you are doing that. For example, in 2010 I with very modest resources I tried that. The purpose of the contest was to encourage the creation of graphic images that would communicate to learners the concept of multiple career pathways. The idea was that pathways would begin with basic literacy and English language skills, and continue up through basic education and adult secondary education to higher education, job skills training and/or apprenticeship and work. The infographics of two of the prizewinners are included below.
All the best,
David
David Rosen
djrosen123@gmail.com