rightchoice

In the last few years, we have witnessed a growing skepticism about the conventional devices for matching high school and college students to the right majors and careers. More and more, we recognize that students need help in reaching their decisions and in picking the right school. College admissions officers decry the inadequacy of the tools available for their admissions decisions - grades, class rank, SAT results, the ACT test, student essays. They want tools that are more incisive, more definitive, and more responsive to individual differences.

Because so little is available to educators to identify students’ natural abilities and to relate them to their career choices, the Highlands Company has asked two of its most experienced Affiliates to write a book describing the benefits of the Highlands approach.

The book, Highlands: The Right Choice, by Leslie H. Martin and Kathleen T. Danelo, is specifically for students who want to discover or confirm a career direction that will make maximum use of their abilities and respond to their interests and their values. No student wants to spend the four most crucial and formative years of her life only to discover at the end that she's been in the wrong theatre on the wrong night with the wrong script.

Highlands: The Right Choice builds on a student's results on the three Highlands assessments. It relates these results to the choice of school and career. It is carefully organized into ability clusters, road maps, and tips. Ability clusters, measured by the Ability Battery, are groups of abilities found in an individual. The ideal cluster for a professional musician, for example is: Specialist + Introvert + Strong Musical Abilities + Strong Spatial Relations Theory. Fourteen different clusters are described in the Book.

The section on Tips is directed to Parents, Teachers and Administrators. It tells them the meaning and importance of a student’s natural abilities and their impact on the student’s performance. The section on Road Maps describes all the steps to graduation and all the stops along the way. This is a very valuable and insightful guide for every student and every parent.

Highlands: The Right Choice
Revised Second Edition Paperback $15.95 plus $3.50 shipping and handling.

To order your copy, go to the Highlands Store or contact Kim Mumola at The Highlands Company - email kim@highlandsco.com or call 800.373.0083 ext. 307.