Levittown BOE Hosts Student Career Exploration Presenters

LEVITTOWN, NY. — The Jan. 7 Levittown Board of Education meeting transformed into a career fair last week, as Levittown elementary schoolers took to the front of the room to tell the board what they would like to be when they grow up.

Each student had a backdrop for their presentation: A library, a police department, a hospital, something to help illustrate their dream. In their presentation, the students from each of the district’s five elementary schools told the board about what they learned in the district’s Career Exploration program, which gets elementary students in Levittown thinking about what their career could look like from an early age.

“Career Exploration at the elementary level is not about choosing a job,” Director of
Elementary Education Michelle Kelly said. “It’s about building awareness, helping students
understand that learning has purpose and that their interests can grow into future
Opportunities.”

According to district representatives, that awareness is built through interactions with professionals in a wide swath of fields and lessons that connect the concepts they learn in the classroom to the work they could do professionally one day.

At the Jan. 7 meeting, district representatives said the board saw a video presentation that showed students checking a teddy bear’s pulse, studying rocks as a geologist would, counting money as if they were bank tellers, and assembling structures, mimicking the work of a carpenter.