Maybe You Should Fly a Jet, Maybe You Should Be a Vet. Dr Suess emphasized nontraditional occupations more than 40 years ago! …but so much has changed. This interactive session details the results of a comparative study on the motivational influences of nontraditional career seekers in Wisconsin. Topics for this session include the impacts of stereotypes on career choice, real and perceived barriers to entering a nontraditional occupation, and what can schools do to incentivize youth into nontraditional gender programs and vocations. Also, this session seeks to understand what impacts nontraditional gender roles have today on secondary students.
The target audiences for this presentation are secondary and post-secondary teachers, administrators, school counselors, career guidance personnel, and other post-secondary and career advocates curious about motivational factors and passionate about understanding the challenges students face today with career choice.
This interactive session will allow participants to discuss their current practices in incentivizing students into nontraditional programs and vocations. This session will also allow participants to analyze their current practices and identify strategies to engage students interested in nontraditional pathways.
Attendees will be given advanced graphic organizers to triangulate strategies and identify institutional barriers to engaging students interested in nontraditional pathways. Attendees will also be provided with an infographic detailing the results of the study.
After this session, you will be able to:- Discuss occupational gender stereotypes.
- Describe some of the barriers to students entering nontraditional programs and vocations, and
- Develop strategies to incentivize students into nontraditional gender programs and vocations.
