Mefa college application manager

Academic Skills

College & Career Exploration

  1. Create their MEFA Pathway Account
  2. Learn about the features available in MEFA Pathway to support college and career exploration
  3. Update their Profile Details within MEFA Pathway
  1. Evaluate their current study habits
  2. Learn strategies to improve study skills
  3. Make a plan to improve their study habits for academic and future success
  1. Learn about SMART goals and how to write them
  2. Understand the difference between academic and personal goal
  3. Create strategies to help them achieve their goals
  1. Explore the connection between interests and careers
  2. Connect their favorite school subjects to related careers
  3. Learn how to evaluate careers based on their core interests
  1. Learn about the importance of decisions and the impact they can make
  2. Understand the steps to making responsible decisions
  3. Reflect on how to make the best decisions

Grade 7 Curriculum

Academic Skills,

College & Career Exploration

  1. Learn about the features on a resume
  2. Update their Profile Details within MEFA Pathway
  3. Make connections between their Profile Details and their plans for the future
  1. Learn about SMART goals and how to write them
  2. Connect their career interests to future goals
  3. Create strategies to help them achieve their goals
  1. Exploring careers based on subjects or activities they enjoy
  2. Identify on-the-job tasks related to specific work environments
  3. Identify education level & areas of knowledge needed for potential careers
  4. Identify a career category of interest
  1. Learn about growth mindsets and fixed mindsets
  2. Compare the differences between the two mindsets
  3. Reflect on a time when they succeeded by having a growth mindset
  1. Learn about the characteristics of healthy and unhealthy relationships
  2. Define key aspects of effective communication
  3. Identify communication skills that they can improve upon
  1. Learn about career categories and how they can use them to prepare for a career
  2. Connect their top interests and values to career categories
  3. Evaluate the career categories they’ve researched and choose one career that isthe most appealing
  4. Create an advertisement promoting the career they’ve researched

Social Emotional Learning

  1. Learn about the three learning styles
  2. Identify how they learn and remember information best
  3. Explore how their learning style can help them in school and on the job

Grade 8 Curriculum

Academic Skills

College & Career Exploration

  1. Learn about the features on a resume
  2. Update their Profile Details within MEFA Pathway
  3. Make connections between their Profile Details and their plans for the future
  1. Explore the Discovery Zone activities
  2. Learn about potential careers
  3. Understand the education level and areas of knowledge needed for potential careers
  4. Identify a career category of interest
  1. Discover the skills and education needed to perform a wide range of jobs
  2. Search for careers by keyword or category
  3. Create a balanced career list
  4. Formulate a plan for what they might study in the future
  1. Learn how courses align with graduation requirements and post-high school plans
  2. Learn about CTE programs and determine if they will go to a vocational or technical high school
  3. Learn about MassCore requirements
  4. Review their favorite subjects
  5. Start to develop their course schedule based on graduation requirements and post-high school plans
  1. Explore ways to find jobs
  2. Understand the different strategies to find a job
  3. Research potential employers within their community
  1. Learn about the importance of saving and determine a personal savings plan
  2. Investigatedentify and evaluate money management skills
  3. Create financial goals

Social Emotional Learning

Academic Skills

  1. Investigate courses that align with their favorite subjects, talents, and interests
  2. Identify questions and concerns they have about entering high school
  3. Explore clubs, activities, and other resources to help handle the transition to high school
  1. Learn about the concept of self-advocacy
  2. Identify situations in which they may need to advocate for themselves
  3. Develop strategies to effectively advocate for themselves

Grade 9 Curriculum

  1. Explore visual, auditory, and tactile learning styles
  2. Identify their preferred learning style
  3. Use their learning style to create an academic goal to support high school success
  1. Learn about SMART goals and how to write them
  2. Connect what they’ve learned about SMART goals with their lives
  3. Evaluate the goal that they’ve written in order to determine if it is actually a
    SMART goal
  4. Create a plan of strategies that allows them to take steps that will keep them on target for achieving their goal
  1. Learn about the difference between skills and technology skills
  2. Complete the What are Your Skills assessment
  3. Use their What are Your Skills assessment results to explore careers and identify a career category suited for them
  1. Learn about the typical format and sections necessary for writing a resume
  2. Connect information from their own lives to the sections needed for their resume
  3. Learn why resumes are an important part of postsecondary planning
  4. Create a resume using the Resume Builder within MEFA Pathway
  1. Identify and compare several postsecondary options
  2. Choose a postsecondary option based on their criteria that fits with their interests, experiences, and needs
  3. Develop criteria for analyzing postsecondary options
  4. Discuss criteria needed for making educational decisions
  1. Complete the What are Your Interests and What are Your Values assessments in MEFA Pathway
  2. Discover and learn about the results of their Interests and Values assessments
  3. Use the results of the assessments to explore career categories that are best
    suited for them
  1. Identify past accomplishments
  2. Identify the skills and talents used to achieve each past accomplishment
  3. Identify possible careers that utilize their skills and talents

Academic Skills
College & Career Exploration

Academic Skills
College & Career Exploration

  1. Learn about the different types of work-experience
  2. Explore different ways they can get work experience while still in school
  3. Assess which type of work experience is best suited for their career interests and
    goals
  4. Generate a list of school offerings, including courses or specialized programs, that provide an opportunity to gain work-related experience
  1. Identify their financial values
  2. Discover the importance of establishing a budget
  3. Learn how to create financial goals
  1. Identify what courses must be taken
  2. Create a course plan that meets graduation and MassCore requirements
  3. Add to the course plan throughout high school to stay on track
  4. Explore AP and Dual Enrollment options
  1. Identify college factors to consider
  2. Explore and discover factors that are important
  3. Search for colleges based upon preferences
  4. Save colleges to My College List to research further

Grade 10 Curriculum

Social Emotional Learning
Academic Skills

  1. Learn about SMART goals and how to write them
  2. Connect what they’ve learned about SMART goals with their lives in three areas, academic, personal, and career in order to write one SMART goal for each area
  3. Evaluate the goals that they’ve written in order to determine if they are actually SMART goals
  4. Create a plan of strategies that allows them to take steps that will keep them on target for achieving their goals
  1. Learn about the typical format and sections necessary for writing a resume
  2. Connect information from their own lives to the sections needed for their resume
  3. Evaluate the information that they’ve gathered in order to organize and prioritize what will be included on their resume
  4. Create a resume using the Resume Builder within MEFA Pathway

Academic Skills
College & Career Exploration

Academic Skills
College & Career Exploration

  1. Learn about the two major standardized tests used by colleges during the admissions process
  2. Evaluate which test(s) they plan to take and their preparedness for the test by taking practice tests
  3. Create a plan for preparing for and taking the standardized test
  1. Learn about college fairs, rep visits, and college tours
  2. Utilize MEFA Pathway’s Search Colleges section to create a list of colleges in which they are interested
  3. Take virtual tours and interact with college reps through colleges’ webpages
  4. Learn about the importance of interacting with colleges to show demonstrated interest

Social Emotional Learning
College & Career Exploration

College & Career Exploration

College & Career Exploration
Academic Skills

  1. Learn about the various postsecondary pathways available
  2. Understand the differences between postsecondary programs
  3. Explore career options related to different types of postsecondary programs
  4. Evaluate their desired postsecondary pathway based on their interests,skills,and goals

Social Emotional Learning

  1. Learn about growth mindsets and fixed mindsets
  2. Compare the differences between the two mindsets
  3. Reflect on a time when they succeeded by having a growth mindset

Grade 11 Curriculum

  1. Learn about community service.
  2. Connect their own interests to community service opportunities.
  3. Evaluate and complete any requirements associated with serving at the location of their choice.
  4. Create an entry in the My Profile and My Journal sections on the MEFA Pathway website
  1. Learn about the two major standardized tests used by colleges during the admissions process
  2. Research the standardized tests required by the colleges to which they intend to apply
  3. Evaluate which test(s) they plan to take and their preparedness for the test by taking practice tests
  4. Create a plan for preparing for and taking the standardized test

College & Career Exploration
Financial Literacy

  1. Learn the information that is needed to search for scholarships
  2. Connect their own culture, family background, interests, and activities to available scholarships
  3. Evaluate the scholarship opportunities that exist to help them achieve a post-secondary education
  1. Learn about the different steps of applying to college
  2. Hear other students’ experiences applying to college
  3. Develop an action plan for their senior year
  4. Determine the next steps to plan for their college and career
  1. Learn about letters of recommendation
  2. Evaluate who knows them well and would make good recommenders
  1. Review the Common App essay prompts
  2. Review and reflect on sample essays
  3. Compose a draft essay for college admissions
  1. Identify the colleges they are applying to and research each school’s financial aid requirements
  2. Learn about the FAFSA
  3. Learn how to create an FSA ID prior to completing the FAFSA
  1. Learn how colleges and universities use the EFC to calculate the amount of financial aid a student is eligible to receive
  2. Use information from a sample student to practice calculating an EFC using the EFC Calculator
  3. Evaluate the EFC of the sample student and brainstorm ways the sample student could pay for college
  4. Research information required to complete their own EFC
  1. Identify college factors to consider
  2. Explore and discover factors that are important
  3. Search for colleges based upon preferences
  4. Save colleges to My College List to research further
  1. Learn about factors that influence the labor market
  2. Explore areas of the United States with specific career concentrations
  3. Explore how demands for careers may shape their post-secondary plans
  1. Learn about the cost-saving options of paying for college in Massachusetts
  2. Create a combination of a two-year and four-year college to determine a savings estimate
  3. Summarize their findings and share them with classmates
  1. Investigate careers related to those they have expressed interest in
  2. Learn about the importance of having a back-up plan
  3. Research career paths as a way to identify related careers
  1. Learn about cover letters
  2. Understand the basic structure of a cover letter
  3. Analyze what to include and exclude in a cover letter
  4. Create a cover letter
  1. Learn about SMART goals and how to write them
  2. Connect what they’ve learned about SMART goals with their lives
  3. Evaluate the goal that they’ve written in order to determine if it is actually a SMART goal
  4. Create a plan of strategies that allows them to take steps that will keep them on target for achieving their goal
  1. Learn to define Probable, Target, and Reach Schools
  2. Select colleges that fit into their Probable, Target, and Reach School lists
  3. Review the details of their favorite colleges
  4. Write a journal entry reflecting on their college list