CAREER EDUCATION YEARS 7 - 10

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CAREER EDUCATIONYEARS 7 - 10

• Peter McKenzie

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Belmont High School

• Large 7 12 school, about 1080 students.
• Large regional city of Geelong.
• Typically about 50 students go to University,
  25 TAFE and 25 Apprenticeships, Traineeships
  and Employment.
• On Track data 2004 1 seeking work.

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WHY ?Career Education at 7 10?
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Years 10, 11 and 12 students developing pathways

• Years Ten, Eleven and Twelve students can access
• VCE (year 10 students can accelerate)
• VCAL (BCAL at Year Ten)
• SBNAs
• VET
• Year 10 students can exercise choice in subject
  selection.
• Students can access part-time employment at 15.

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Issues facing schools and students

• Government Schools Strategic Plans Pathways
  Transitions.
• Accountability On Track, VCE scores, retention
  rates.
• Students are being asked to perform their best
  and need to.
• Students need to do well to compete against other
  students for employment or further training.
• Students need a purpose for being at school.
  Disengaged students often lack goals and
  direction.
• Apprenticeships in skills shortage areas but
  connection between student and employment not
  being made.
• University drop out rates high.
• University may not an appropriate pathway.
• Many students not knowing what they want to do as
  a career.

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It was becoming clear that Career Education at
Year Ten was too late. Many decisions needed to
be made during Year Nine. Students are lacking in
self awareness and awareness of career
opportunities.
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HOW TO INTEGRATE?
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CAREER EDUCATIONYEARS 7 - 10

• DEST initiatives CAA, the Blueprint, ReCap,
  Myfuture, JPP (YPP), ATCs.
• LLEN priorities.
• Essential Learnings.
• Career Educators in Schools.
• MIPs
• Need to bring these activities together to make
  kids the winners.

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Essential Learnings

• Discipline Based Learning Strand - Humanities
  Economics
• Level 5 (years 7 8) Building breadth and depth.
  
• Students explore the work in order to develop
  the ability to make informed decisions about
  their future and training needs, and employment.
• Level 6 (years 9 10) Developing Pathways.
• Students examine vocational pathways and
  education and training requirements, considering
  possible work and career options. They develop
  skills and strategies for transition to
  employment and further education and training,
  including job seeking, job application and
  interview skills.

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Employability Skills

• Physical, Personal and Social Learning Strand
  Interpersonal Development Working in Teams,
  Building Social Relationships.
• Interdisciplinary Learning
• Communication, ICT, Thinking (problem
  solving), analyzing and evaluating.
• Assessment against generic competencies.

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Australian Blueprint for Career Development (the
Blueprint)

• The Blueprint provides guidelines for helping to
  integrate career development learning into the
  schools curriculum. It provides an extensive
  list of competencies that can underpin student
  learning of career education.

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Australian Blueprint for Career Development (the
Blueprint)

• Three key areas
• Area A Personal Management
• Area B Learning and Work Exploration
• Area C Career Building

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Australian Blueprint for Career Development (the
Blueprint)

• Eleven main career competencies
• Area A-Personal Management
• Build and maintain a positive self concept
• Interact positively and effectively with others
• Change and grow throughout life
• Area B-Learning and Work Exploration
• Participate in lifelong learning supportive of
  career goals
• Locate and effectively use career information
• Understand the relationship between work, society
  and the economy
• Area C-Career Building
• Secure/create and maintain work
• Make career enhancing decisions
• Maintain balanced life and work roles
• Understand the changing nature of life and work
  roles
• Understand, engage in and manage the career
  building process

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Australian Blueprint for Career Development (the
Blueprint)

• Within each career competency, performance
  indicators at four learning stages
• Stage one Acquire
• Stage two Apply
• Stage three Personalise
• Stage four Act

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Australian Blueprint for Career Development (the
Blueprint)

• Four Phases
• Phase I K-Primary school
• Phase II Middle-school
• Phase III Students in senior/post-compulsory
  school
• Phase IV - Adults

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Career Planning
Students need to develop awareness of self.
Students need To develop awareness of Careers
and Occupations.
Career Planning is a lifelong journey. Students
today may work in occupations that dont exist
today. Students will probably change careers a
number of times.
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A model for Belmont High School
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Years Seven and Eight

• Real Game for all students at Year Seven.
• Personalized Learning Plans students are
  working with fewer teachers assisting students to
  develop self awareness strengths, weaknesses,
  abilities, interests.
• E-portfolios.
• Integration of Career Education activities into
  curriculum increase awareness of occupations
  and world of work, manage change, make wise
  decisions.
• Need to make learning relevant and with purpose.
  Applied Learning, Enterprise education.

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Year Nine

• Develop activities to seek and maintain work.
• Job applications, mock interviews.
• Locate, interpret, evaluate and use career
  information.
• Changing nature of work.
• Develop links with community and relationship to
  work.
• Vocational testing.
• Develop knowledge of pathways.
• Employability skills.
• Continue integration of career education into
  curriculum.
• Start MIPs plan.

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Year Ten

• Work experience.
• SWL
• Work place visits.
• Many students have part-time employment.
• Many students have started a pathway VET, SBNA,
  BCAL, acceleration into VCE.
• Individual assistance and counseling.
• Career days involving employers and agencies and
  tertiary institutions.
• MIPs.

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WHO WILL DELIVER CAREER EDUCATION ?
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Schools

• All classroom teachers become teachers of Career
  Education.
• House Leaders and Assistants as MIPs team,
  mentoring, advocacy.
• School Welfare Workers assist in retaining
  students at school MIPs role.
• My role
• Develop Partnerships and be a liaison person with
  external agencies, employers and Tertiary
  Institutions.
• Assist teachers in integration of career
  education activities into curriculum in the
  context of the essential learnings.
• Assist teachers to engage organisations to assist
  in Career Education.
• Individual counseling, at risk, year ten, eleven
  and twelve students.
• Manage MIPs. Tracking students.
• Develop and coordinate VET and SBNAs.
• Assist students in developing pathways.
• A resource for staff and students.
• Work closely with VCAL Coordinator.
• Teach VCAL WRS.

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External Organizations

• Industry develop student awareness of careers.
• YPP assist students most at risk
• In time may be able to use industry to work in
  curriculum e.g. Industry lead Science activities.
• Use of broad range of external agencies to
  present to students e.g. Group Training
  Companies, Job Network Agencies.
• Break down the barriers between Schools,
  University, TAFE, ACE, Industry, Community, etc.
  Schools need to operate not in isolation from the
  rest of the world. Need to get students outside
  school into community and workplaces and get
  industry and community into schools.

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Thank YouQuestions ?