Navigating the Future: A Guide to College Board Toolkit Resources
The College Board Toolkit offers a suite of resources designed to support counselors and students in navigating the complex journey of college and career planning. These tools provide valuable information and practical assistance, empowering students to make informed decisions about their future.
Counselor Support and Guidance
The College Board recognizes the crucial role counselors play in guiding students toward post-secondary success. The toolkit provides resources specifically tailored for counselors, offering timely information and practical tools to facilitate effective advising.
- College and Scholarship Planning: The toolkit provides important and timely information about a counselor's role in the college advising process, focusing on college and scholarship planning and how BigFuture can help.
- AP Guidance: The toolkit provides important and timely information about a counselor's role in the college advising process, focusing on topics in AP.
- Worksheets Designed by Counselors: This resource also includes worksheets designed for counselors by counselors to help you navigate those conversations as your student goes on their own journey to a bigger future.
- Supporting the Student Journey: These resources are designed to help counselors navigate conversations with students as they embark on their individual journeys towards higher education and career paths.
BigFuture: A Comprehensive Planning Tool
BigFuture.org and BigFuture School are tools that will help your students make informed choices about life after high school and enhances their understanding of their career and postsecondary education options. This guide helps you determine which tool to use with your students and when. BigFuture is a central component of the College Board Toolkit, offering a comprehensive platform for students to explore colleges, careers, and financial aid options.
- College Search Tool: Counselors and students can work on this time-saving planning worksheet so that they can review and select available filters for researching colleges. Students can use BigFuture's College Search tool to explore potential colleges based on their individual preferences and criteria.
- Informed Choices: BigFuture.org and BigFuture School are tools that will help your students make informed choices about life after high school and enhances their understanding of their career and postsecondary education options.
- Strategic Tool Selection: This guide helps you determine which tool to use with your students and when.
Career Insights Snapshot: Connecting Skills to Careers
Career Insights Snapshot is a new feature on student’s SAT Suite score report. Every career has a set of measurable skills. College Board and HumRRO mapped the skills of 1,000 careers to the math, reading and writing skills measured on a PSAT or SAT Suite of Assessments. Use this video to show your students an overview of Career Insights Snapshot and how it connects their SAT Suite scores to the math, reading, and writing skills of growing careers in their state. The Career Insights Snapshot is a valuable tool that connects students' academic skills to potential career paths.
- Skills Mapping: Every career has a set of measurable skills. College Board and HumRRO mapped the skills of 1,000 careers to the math, reading and writing skills measured on a PSAT or SAT Suite of Assessments.
- Score Report Integration: Career Insights Snapshot is a new feature on student’s SAT Suite score report.
- Career Exploration: Use this video to show your students an overview of Career Insights Snapshot and how it connects their SAT Suite scores to the math, reading, and writing skills of growing careers in their state.
Test Day Toolkit: Streamlining Test Administration
The Test Day Toolkit provides resources and tools to streamline the administration of College Board assessments.
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- Staff Management: Go to the Test Day Toolkit Staff page and click Add Staff to open the new staff form. Choose an option from the Add Staff dropdown menu. As part of 2-step verification, we send staff a code that expires after 3 minutes. Mobile numbers make first-time access easier, but are not required for 2-step verification. Optional: Give a colleague the coordinator role so they can help you manage staff and rooms.
- Room Management: To add rooms in Test Day Toolkit, click Add Rooms and enter a name and seating capacity for each room. To edit a room in Test Day Toolkit, click a room name on the room list. You can edit the name and seating capacity, assign staff, and delete the room.
- Accommodations: If any students have accommodations that require testing over multiple days, add a separate room in Test Day Toolkit for each day of testing, even if you plan to use the same space. To give each room a unique name, add the month and day after the room name. If necessary, add the time, too, using letters and numbers only. For example, create rooms called "Cafeteria Oct 6 AM" and "Cafeteria Oct 6 PM" if you’re using the cafeteria to test one group in the morning and another group in the afternoon.
- Student Seating: Use other filter and sort options-such as grade and accommodation group type-to list only students who belong in the same room. To seat different testing groups in the same room, skip this step and simply instruct students to sit in the selected room. The toolkit will create a room roster on test day when students enter the room code their proctor gives them.
- Proctor Assignments: Proctors can be assigned to only 1 room at a time per test administration.
- Ticket Printing: On the Print Tickets tab, select a print option.
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