Career Awareness Month: Tools for Arizona Teachers

Arizona (September 25, 2024) - The Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs has declared September as the official Career Awareness Month for the state of Arizona. In a recent Press Release, Governor Katie declared, "Arizona can be the best place in the country to live, work and raise a family. This starts with making sure our students have access to career awareness and exploration activities to prepare for higher education and career opportunities. Career Awareness Month is an opportunity for Arizona industry, education, and community leaders, along with Arizona families to advance Arizona students’ quality of life and help meet the state’s workforce needs.”

The Edge Factor team is delighted to see the importance of career awareness being recognized by Governor Hobbs and her team in Arizona. “Our team is laser focused on equipping educators and inspiring students with career exploration tools, so we love seeing directives like this, from the top, that align with that mission,” said Larissa Hofman, Vice President of Edge Factor. “There are many pathways to success! We focus on helping students discover careers, build skills and connect to local opportunities, so they are better equipped to make the right choices on their purposeful life journey.”

The tools created by Edge Factor inspire K-12 students to explore, prepare, and connect on their career journey - whether they are in class, at home, or on-the-go. Edge Factor partners with school districts across Arizona to integrate careers into classrooms and events, guide students through personalized interest-assessment career journeys, and help them explore careers while developing industry-specific skills. With the largest known library of career multimedia, Edge Factor delivers thousands of videos, lesson plans for educators, interactive student activities and badges. Every tool uses the power of storytelling and is designed to meet target age groups and learning outcomes. Our award-winning storytellers have produced cinematic career content throughout Arizona communities, sharing career stories and insights from real life people in Arizona companies and schools. This content, along with thousands of career videos, interactive student activities and digital badges, and lesson plans, are being utilized by schools throughout Arizona state with premium Edge Factor memberships.

Tools for Arizona Educators to Celebrate Career Awareness Month

In honor of Career Awareness Month, we are identifying a few top ways for Arizona educators to use Edge Factor’s resources to inspire students and connect them to meaningful careers. Whether you have a free or premium account, here are the top tools we recommend for Arizona educators to share with students and families this month!

1) Login or create your FREE account to share these tools with grade 7-12 students and parents:

• Industry Pathways: Introduce students to different industries that exist in today’s modern world and how they impact our lives.
• Why Care?: Show students why they should care about in-demand careers in the skilled trades, Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs, pathways to success, and more hot career topics!
• Listen to Tunes of the Trades on Spotify: Play hilarious songs about careers and tools, perfect for adding fun career awareness to any and every class!

For K-8 students

2) If you are a K-12 educator and your school has a premium Edge Factor membership, here’s our Top Career Awareness Tools List for you too:

• Pet Factor: What do pets and careers have in common? Show students how the skills used to care for animals equip them with the soft skills needed in various careers.
• Skilled Responders: Inspire your students to explore careers that align with their passions by introducing them to skilled professionals who bring enthusiasm and purpose to their work.

• Navigators: Help students navigate careers as industry leaders share an overview of their careers and talk about the tools, equipment, skills, and processes they use on the job.
  

For High School students:

• NEW: Guide Students on Personalized Journeys: Help students log in to take an interest assessment career quiz that matches their interests to inspiring career media and interactive activities! (Preview the experience for Grade 9 students, Grade 10 students, Grade 11 students, and Grade 12 students)
• Industry Pathways: Introduce students to different industries that exist in today’s modern world and how they impact our lives.
• Career Profiles: Play or assign episodes from our 530+ career profile videos to show students what a “day in the life” looks like in specific careers, spanning every industry.
• Virtual Workplace Experiences: Take your students on a virtual field trip! Choose from 200 episodes that give students a behind-closed-doors walk and tour at a real life company. Download the lesson plan for group discussions or assign the video and interactive student activity for your students to complete.
• Choose from 350+ soft skills videos in series like Employability Skills, Ethics, Soft Skills on the Job.

Edge Factor tour bus in Arizona for a film tour.

Keep in mind, when you log in to Edge Factor, the My Journey page will help you find top recommendations based on your location, what classes and grades you teach and what you care about. It will show you career stories filmed in your community (we have hundreds of tools filmed in Arizona!), new releases, and this month’s career awareness badges for students to earn.

During Career Awareness Month, Arizona educators have the opportunity to easily plug-and-play Edge Factor tools into their classes and inspire students to discover industries and careers. Arizona schools can find more about Edge Factor’s tools by connecting with our team, booking a demo, checking out the Tools for Teachers page and the Arizona Department of Education’s website, or connecting with our awesome state-wide partners: the Arizona Business and Education (ABEC) and Center for the Future of Arizona (CFA).

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