Power Practices

Power Practices: Explore Careers and Create Your Own Pathway For all students 14 and over. Power Practices is an engaging career readiness curriculum designed for anyone who wants more clarity about their own career direction. Students are guided through a step-by-step process of a career to explore based upon their strengths and interests. Power Practices are supportive to teens and young adults with learning disabilities, ADHD, and ASD. Themes Relating to Job Effectiveness include: Adaptation-Making choices and taking action to handle change for growth. Collaboration- Working with others in shared interests or a goal. Self-empowerment- Understanding your strengths and challenges, with a belief in yourself. Finding voice to live your life and making positive choices in setting goals. Self-expression-Understanding your true-self feelings, thoughts, or ideas of your personality, and exhibiting your own style through verbal communication, writing, art, music, or dance.
 Self-satisfaction-Experiencing contentment and pleasure in learning, participating in work tasks, or creating art. Finding your experiences rewarding. Self-advocacy-Participating in your own well being. Speaking up for yourself or having someone speak up on your behalf. Self-awareness Being alert about your physical needs, emotions, participation and comprehension on tasks, interactions with others, and desires. Jackie Marquette Ph.D is the founder and president of the Marquette Index, LLC, a company dedicated to bringing innovative and unique solution based career tools and leadership to organizations and students and adults with challenges including ASD. www.marquettestrengthsindex.com