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Post-Secondary Choices for Performing and Visual Arts Students
Post-Secondary Options for Students with Special Learning Needs
posted 5.17.12
In response to high demand, is pleased to announce that it will hold an additional session this summer! Students can apply by visiting http://www.campcardiac.org.
This 1-week summer day camp is open to high school students (including 2012 graduates) ages 15 years and older (as of the start of the camp) interested in exploring careers in medicine. Enrollment is limited to 20 students per session, and spots are filled on a first come, first serve basis.
Read how Lake Forest High School alumna credits gap year for new outlook
A small but growing number of high school graduates are opting to spend a year between high school and college to learn more about themselves and the world before furthering their academic education. A substantive gap year is not “taking a year off,” but rather a planned year (or semester) with activities that expand horizons while promoting personal growth and maturation. Gap year participants range from high achieving students who have specific interests in areas such as environmental conservation or volunteerism, to students with learning differences who are burned out on the standard academic process, to students with an intense desire to experience other languages and cultures, to students who already have the maturity to realize that they want to enter college but would like to get a clearer idea of what they want to study. .
The Gap Year
Margaux's Gap Year Story (video)
Adam's Gap Year Story (video)
The annual Open Doors Career Exploration Program will be held on TBA. The purpose of this job shadowing program is to provide students with first-hand, on-the-job experience with professionals in the community and with local volunteer agencies during the two days when freshmen, sophomores and seniors have off from school while juniors will be taking the Prairie State Exams. All freshmen, sophomores, and seniors are encouraged to participate in this unique and valuable program. On-line registration for Open Doors will take place in March. More information will be coming soon. For questions or more information about the Open Doors program, please contact Kathy O’Hara, Student Service/Community Coordinator, at kohara@lfschools.net or 582-7774.
Information
Application
Every year Lake Forest High School has the opportunity to nominate freshman through seniors for tuition-based career and leadership programs that take place at various locations across the country. Tuition can range from $1,400 to $3,000, depending on the program with a limited scholarship program available to students with financial need. Some of these programs include:
National Youth Leadership Forum on Collegiate Success, www.nylf.org/cs
For freshman through juniors.
National Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine, www.nylf.org/med
For freshmen through seniors.
National Youth Leadership Forum on National Security, www.nylf.org/ns
For sophomores through seniors.
National Young Leaders Conference, www.cylc.org/nylc
For sophomores through seniors.
LeadAmerica, www.lead-america.org
For freshmen through seniors.
For more information, or to express an interest in attending one of these programs, please contact Kathy O’Hara, Student Service/Community Coordinator in Room 103C, or 582-7774, or kohara@lfschools.net.
For students, deciding what career to pursue can be an overwhelming
task. Students who have a general or specific idea of the career
they would like to pursue have an easier time choosing a college
major, and getting started right away into the coursework required
for that career. Our desire is to help students explore their strengths
and interests, and to encourage self-awareness in these areas.
We encourage career related internships and summer jobs, and work
with our students to help them through the process of finding a
field of study that fits their unique strengths and interests.
Career exploration opportunities through LFHS:
College/Career
Resource Center
The CRC contains many books and resources on career exploration
such as: The Occupational Outlook Handbook which is based on John
Holland's career theory and can be checked out at the desk.
Campbell Interest and Skills Inventory
This well researched evaluation tool helps students by asking questions
about their strengths and interests. They are scored by comparing
these to the strengths and interests of those who have reported
being happy with their jobs. All Sophomores take this inventory
with their counselor in the spring and receive the results in the
early fall of junior year.
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