Monday, August 23, 1982
Daily Nebraskan
Page 17
Gifted high school students
are offered career guidance
By Marcia Warkentin
Gifted high school students from all
over Nebraska will have help in making
career choices this year at the UNL Gui
dance Laboratory workshop.
Barbara Kerr, assistant professor of
educational psychology and social foun
dations and director of the Guidance
Laboratory, said the workshop will in
clude campus tours, visits to classes,
vocational tests and individual meetings
with career counselors to help students
decide on their careers.
Between two and 10 sophomores,
from 80 Nebraska high schools, chosen
by their principals or guidance counselors,
will be attending the one-day workshop,
to be held every Friday from Sept. 10
through May 13.
"Many gifted students are pretty
neglected by their high school guidance
counselors and even teachers," Ms. Kerr
said. "It is assumed that they don't need
any help making career choices." Kerr said
students with much potential often need
more help because they can't decide among
their many skills.
The lab offered a "pilot project"
workshop from January through May
of last year and juniors and seniors from
Lincoln high schools participated. Kerr
said the students gave highest ratings
to the time they spent with an individ
ual counselor.
"Many of them said that it was the
first time an adult had ever talked to
them seriously about their future,"
she said. The workshop helped raise
career aspirations of manyof the stu
dents, especially the girls, she said.
"They, for instance, would change their
plans from drafting to architecture, or
from teacher to lawyer, or from nurse to
doctor," she said.
Therron Stackley, a senior at Lincoln
Southeast this year, attended the workshop
in April. He said he was impressed with the
openness of the counselor. "It was not
so much of a teacher-student relation
ship," he said. "It was guidance on a
personal, equal basis." He said the work
shop gave- him the freedom to make a
decision about his career.
Stackley said he is interested in several
fields, including writing, art and arch
itecture. Sherry Cain, a freshman at UNL who
attended one of the first workshops, said
the workshop opened up new career
opportunities that she hadn't thought
about before.
"There are jobs out there that you're
not aware of because they're not typical
jobs like doctor or lawyer," she said.
"After taking the test I found I would
be interested in something like being
an announcer on a radio and I never
thought about that sort of thing before."
It is currently funded by UNL Layman
Funds and the state Department of Education-Vocational
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