Full Description
What do you want to be when you grow up? What a huge question to answer, with so many variables to think about. Yet we ask this of young people from a relatively early age!
Students need to make decisions about options, post-16 pathways and potential career routes within a fast-paced and ever-changing modern world where they may one day work in roles that don't yet exist. It's tricky stuff! This toolkit offers a clear and practical guide to helping students navigate the big topic of careers through high-quality PSHE, moving beyond narrow job titles to explore who they are and the kind of life they hope to lead.
This book provides teachers with easy-to-follow lessons and activities broken down into six key themes:
• My Career Identity - Encouraging students to consider their sense of self, including their skills and qualities
• My Future - Supporting students to consider the type of future they hope for themselves and how they can work towards achieving these goals
• What's Out There? - Exploring the different types of qualifications and training routes available, as well as Labour Market Information
• Pathways - Comparing the different pathways available including traditional and vocational routes
• Breaking Down Barriers - Reflecting on what could be holding them back and setting manageable goals to address these
• My Employability - Evaluating personal employability skills and making links between these and future career goals
Careers education, when broken down into manageable steps is a hugely exciting topic to both teach and be taught. Essential reading for teachers delivering careers education, pastoral staff, and school leaders, this book provides the perfect resource to simplify planning while preparing pupils for a changing future.
Contents
Table of contents
Introduction
· Introducing a career identity
· Encouraging pupils to consider their future
· Getting to grips with what's out there
· The importance of understanding pathways
· Breaking down barriers to careers education and understanding
· Employability skills
· The role of social media and popular culture
· Getting to grips with the Gatsby benchmarks
· The importance of a collaborative PSHE teacher and DSL/pastoral relationship
· More on SEND
· Supporting EAL and NTE learners:
· Using careers education to tackle NEET
· Promotion of lifelong learning
· Understanding available pathways
· Valuing all employment
· Cultivating a positive online brand
· The importance of role models and real models
· Engaging with parents/carers
Key Stage 3 Lessons
· What are skills and qualities?
· What might key stage 4 look like?
· What choices are available to me at KS4?
· Why is it important to be open to different pathways?
· What are personal barriers to careers and how can we begin to overcome them?
· Why is it important to be able to work with others?
Key Stage 4 Lessons
· What do you enjoy?
· What might 21 look like?
· What choices are available to me at post-16?
· How can I develop a positive mindset about different pathways?
· How might stereotypes become barriers?
· What does it mean to be a leader?
Key stage 5 lessons
· What motivates you?
· What might 30 look like?
· What is lifelong learning?
· How can I turn a setback into a success?
· Are career influences always positive?
· What makes me employable?
Key Stage 3 Form Time Sessions
1. Super Hero
2. My Emoji Story
3. Options Speed Dating
4. Two Truths and a Detour
5. Barrier Ladder
6. Back-to-back Drawing
Key Stage 4 Form Time Sessions
1. My Enjoyment Map
2. A Day-in-the-life of 21-Year-Old Me
3. Would you Rather
4. Circles of Control
5. Breaking Down Stereotypes
6. Leadership Trait Auction
Key Stage 5 Form Time Sessions
1. My Why
2. The Dream Job
3. Lifelong Learning Grid
4. Awesome Alphabet
5. The Pressure Debate
6. Desert Island Survival
Appendix
