Table 2 Content of the STEM career maturity program
From: Designing and implementing a STEM career maturity program for prospective counselors
Sessions | Activities | Aims | Objectives | Corresponding dimension |
|---|---|---|---|---|
First session | Introducing and structuring | Ensure group harmony | Collect information about the program and process | - |
Second session | Professional development meeting about STEM | Make them realize conscious orientation towards the choice a STEM profession and collect information about STEM professions | Realize the importance of being able to make STEM career and develop his/her knowledge base on STEM professions | Conscious orientation towards the choice of a STEM profession and collecting information about STEM professions |
Third session | Research about STEM-centered professions | Foster the exploration of a STEM career | Investigate the consistency of his/her preference for a STEM profession in terms of the fields and levels of professions | Consistency of the choice of a STEM profession |
Fourth session | Discover their suitability for STEM professions | Foster the exploration of a STEM career | Evaluate the suitability of the fields of STEM professions for self-concepts | Clarification of the characteristics related to STEM professions |
Fifth session | Directed fantasy | Enhance the plan of a STEM career | Establish connections between the choice of a STEM profession and his/her interests, abilities, and the activities that he/she will be engaged in | Rationality in the preference for a STEM profession |
Sixth session | Evaluation | Evaluate the process of the program | Evaluate the effectiveness of the career maturity program | - |