Teachers and counselors create middle school career education resources, career self assessment tests and tools using the National Career Development Guidelines (NCDG). Career knowledge, skills, and decision-making processes formulate the NCDG Guidelines.

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2.  Teachers and counselors create middle
school career education resources, career
self assessment tests and tools using the
National Career Development Guidelines
(NCDG).
 Career knowledge, skills, and decision-
making processes formulate the NCDG
Guidelines.

3.  The NCDG Guidelines framework has
three domains, goals, and indicators of
mastery under each career development
goal.

4. The three NCDG domains are:
 Personal Social Development (PS)
 Educational Achievement and
Lifelong Learning (ED)
 Career Management (CM)

5. The learning competency stages are:
 Knowledge Acquisition (K). Youth and adults at the knowledge
acquisition stage expand knowledge, awareness and
comprehension. They recall, recognize, describe, identify, clarify,
discuss, explain, summarize, query, investigate and compile new
information about the knowledge.
 Application (A). Youth and adults at the application stage apply
acquired knowledge to situations and to self. They seek out ways
to use the knowledge. For example, they demonstrate, employ,
perform, illustrate and solve problems related to the knowledge.
 Reflection (R). Youth and adults at the reflection stage analyze,
synthesize, judge, assess and evaluate knowledge in accord with
their own goals, values and beliefs. They decide whether or not to
integrate the acquired knowledge into their ongoing response to
situations and adjusted their behavior accordingly.

6. An example of the Personal Social Development
Domain is:
 PS1.K2 Identify your abilities, strengths, skills,
and talents.
 PS1.A2 Demonstrate use of your abilities,
strengths, skills, and talents.
 PS1.R2 Assess the impact of your abilities,
strengths, skills, and talents on your career
development.

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