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26 July 2026

Stage-Specific Tasks and Support for Career Adaptability During the Transition from Junior to Senior High School

Chenxi Wang1 ,  Luoluo Yuan2*
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1 College of Education, Hannam University, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
2 Department of Laboratory Medicine, General Hospital of the Eastern Theater Command, People’s Liberation Army, Nanjing 210000, Jiangsu, China
LNE 2026 , 4(7), 196–201; https://doi.org/10.26689/LNE.v4i7.15965
© 2026 by the Author. Licensee: Bio-Byword Scientific Publishing Pty Ltd, Australia. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )
Abstract

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.

Keywords
Transition from junior to senior high school
Career adaptability
Career education
Support network
Classroom lesson
Funding
Stage-Specific Tasks and Support for Career Adaptability During the Junior–Senior High School Transition Period
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