iJAG (Iowa Jobs for America's Graduates)

MIS315 and MIS316 | Full-Year Course
Prerequisite: Identification process
ELECTIVE ⬛9 ⬛10 ⬛11 ⬛12
⬜DMACC ⬜NCAA ⬜RAI

Iowa Jobs for America’s Graduates (iJAG) 9-12 is a career exploration and preparation course that provides a hands-on approach to exploring personal strengths and challenges as well as job attainment skills (cover letter, resume, job application, interviewing, etc.) and workplace “survival” skills (interpersonal relations, team work, etc.). Students will work to build strengths in academic areas, time management, and communication.

Individual and team project work will help students come to an understanding of their personality and temperament and the relationship between personal actions and the consequences that follow. Students will make connections to their career interests, abilities, and aptitudes by determining their education and career goals through development of an Individual Career Development Plan.

This full-year, credited course involves individual assignments, team activities/projects, academic remediation support, service learning opportunities, guest speakers, field trips (including some state iJAG events such as the Leadership Development and Career Development conferences in Des Moines), and career exploration through job shadowing. Students will also participate in the iJAG Career Association in various activities focused on Career and Leadership Development, Service Learning, and Civic/ Social Awareness.

iJAG is a multi-year commitment of support including one year of follow-up beyond high school.