Stage-Specific Tasks and Support for Career Adaptability During the Transition from Junior to Senior High School
The transition from junior to senior high school brings changes in the learning environment, social roles, and future educational choices into a single period. Students therefore need to move beyond general career awareness toward stage-specific tasks they can undertake. From an educational psychology perspective, this article develops a framework spanning three successive stages: the end of Grade 9, the summer before and entry into senior high school, and the beginning of Grade 10. These stages emphasize, respectively, goal activation and self-assessment, orientation to the new environment and information exploration, and preparation for choices and action-based feedback. Support from families, homeroom and school psychology teachers, subject teachers, and peers is integrated into the progression of tasks. A 45-minute classroom lesson and a post-lesson action sheet are then proposed to connect task identification, access to support, action commitments, and feedback-based revision. The analysis suggests that career education during this transition should align time points, student tasks, support providers, and classroom activities, allowing career adaptability to develop through a sequence of actions that students can understand, attempt, and revise.
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