Sunday, February 26, 2012

1st Career Cafe

I hosted my 1st Career Cafe on Friday, and it was a huge success! Thanks so much to Danielle at School Counselor Blog for sharing the idea of career cafes.  I know many of her readers have implemented this creative career initiative.  You can't tell from the pictures, but I had about 30 5th grade students come.


The man that came was extremely interesting.  He served in the Air Force for 4 years and then worked for 35 years with Aviation Week & Space Technology, the world's leading aerospace news magazine.  He spent 6 years working in Switzerland and France and manned bureaus in Washington DC, Geneva, Paris, Los Angeles, and New York City.  He served as Editor in Chief and Editorial Director of the Aviation Week group of magazines in McGraw Hill's New York World Headquarters for the last 10 years of his career.  He was able to talk to the students about being in the Air Force, learning to fly when he was 15, and both writing for and being in charge of a major magazine.  He also told amazing stories of all the planes he flew while researching them for the magazine.  His favorite flight was flying the U2.  He told the kids that it went so high he was able to see the curvature of the earth, the last layer of atmosphere, and the black of space from the plane.  He also had a picture of him and President Bush shaking hands.  The 5th graders were so impressed and they asked numerous questions.  It was awesome!  I highly suggest starting a career cafe program at your school if you haven't already.  You can read more about my career cafes here. How has Career Cafe worked for you? Who has come to speak?  Leave a comment and share.

6 comments:

  1. I, too, have implemented career cafe in our school! I include 5th-12th grade and the kids love it! Sometimes they bring in their tray/lunch bag and sometimes not, but they always love it! I'm so glad I read Danielle's blog and found this! I do two a month and have them scheduled w/speaker and date through April!

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  2. This sounds fantastic! I'm just wondering how you do it? Do you have one person from the community come in to talk about their career while the kids are eating lunch? How often do you have the career cafe?

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    1. Hey Lauren,
      Thanks for stopping by Counseling Corner! Career Cafe was Danielle's idea over at School Counselor blog. You can find out way more information by reading her post: http://www.schcounselor.com/2011/03/career-cafe.html and my 1st post on career cafe here:http://counselingcorner-allison.blogspot.com/2011/11/career-cafe.html. If you have any other questions just let me know!

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  3. Hi Allison! I am so glad your Career Cafe went well and students loved it! I am so excited that you are implementing Career Cafe in your school! :) If you have any questions or need any additional information please do not hesitate to contact me!

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    1. Thanks for the wonderful idea Danielle! It's been a huge hit at my school with 5th grade.

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  4. Career cafe was an excellent idea for counseling career, I Was really happy to read about this as I got some beneficial ideas in it. I need to read more about this career cafe activities to know latest updates and will appreciate if you update them here time to time.

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