Sonlight's College and Career Planning Kit

This program is designed for middle school/high school students and parents.

Practical tools to help you and your teens make the most of their high school years and discover their niche in life.

Tailored just for homeschoolers, these materials challenge students to carefully consider who God created them to be. Besides learning tips on how to get into the college of their choice, students can discover their unique abilities and the way God has crafted them to serve others.

Let Sonlight walk you through every step as you document your students' work, identify their gifts and abilities, and give them tools to explore the whole world of career choices with this college career planning package. These resources will even steer your students through their college search and keep their school-shopping organized.

To see a sample of the Career Planning Guide, please click here.

Why give Sonlight's College and Career Planning Kit a try?

• Watch your students blossom as they identify their talents and gifts
• Enjoy less frustration and greater ability to help your children reach their goals
• Gain confidence in how best to present your homeschool achievements to college admissions counselors
• Learn what colleges want to see in your students' record of high school work
• Save time and money! Streamline the college application process and discover secrets to make higher education lighter on your pocketbook
• Enjoy helping your children discover their gifts as they prepare for their vocation

Don't miss those big scholarship deadlines! Sonlight's College and Career Planning Kit directs your attention to key steps in a college preparatory program that could save you thousands of dollars. With the handy organizational tools provided, you won't have to hunt for hours for a missing application or a lost address.

Your College and Career Planning Kit includes all these helpful resources...

Finding the Career that Fits You by Larry Burkett and Lee Ellis

This workbook is designed to uncover your students' unique gifts and talents. Your students will explore work preferences and career options, and learn the biblical basis for work in this college preparatory program. They will find starting points to learn about various careers, and begin to build goals toward a life vocation. Through insightful self-evaluations, your students will uncover their strengths and learn more about their personality, gifts, work preferences, learning styles and values.

Homeschoolers' College Admissions Handbook

This resource helps your students maximize their high school experience and stand out from the crowd in college admissions. The author offers priceless tips tailored to homeschoolers on how to make their way through high school and into the college of their choice, including how to...

• create a transcript and portfolio
• apply for financial aid
• explain home education to admissions officers in a positive light
• shop for schools wisely
• write a distinctive essay that gets noticed

Even if your teenager's future plans do not include college, any student can benefit from the valuable tidbits Cohen offers on how to make the most of their high school experience and examine their occupational outlook. She engages in frank discussion of alternatives to college and shares encouraging testimonials from homeschooled high school graduates who succeed in a variety of ways.

Career Planning Guide by Kelly Lutman

A veteran homeschool mom, Lutman launched her own homeschoolers to higher education and promising careers. Now she draws on her vast experience to help you get there, too.

Her purpose is to give you a starting point for the college and career jounrey with basic tools and information to help you navigate uncharted territory.

You'll benefit from her insider tips, lingo, and helpful resource links. This 15-page piece is a simple roadmap for the entire kit.

In this career path book, our seasoned Sonlight Curriculum Consultant and Advisor breaks down the career planning process into manageable steps. She asks key self-discovery questions related to each chapter in Finding the Career that Fits You and Homeschoolers' College Admissions Handbook. This guide encourages your students to develop goals and mark their progress.

Sonlight's College and Career Planning Kit walks students through steps to know their strengths, present themselves well, make smart goals and plan for a life of purpose. Ready-to-use work sheets help students keep their career preparation/college search process organized and provides a glossary of key definitions and resources to learn more.

Use Sonlight's College and Career Planning Kit as a 9-week or full semester course for your older student, or as an ongoing tool to make the transition through high school and beyond the best possible experience.

• College & Career Planning Sample.pdf | 135.70 KB