Education and Career Guidance C1 CT Training 11 April 2011

Recall 2010 C1/C2 training 1. Career Portal => ecareers 2. Destinations Workbook

Objectives 1. What is Career Guidance? 2. Career Resources available 3. Civics: Career lessons for C1 4. Support services

Resource Pack  Career Lesson(s)  Evaluation (today’s training)  Career Wheel

Activity (Think-Pair-Share)  Recall the time when you were a year old student / making a career choice … - Who help you in choice of career? - What do you remember that help in choosing a career? - Looking back, what did you wish someone had told you/ you had to make your career choice.

“The best careers advice to give to the young is 'Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay “The best careers advice to give to the young is 'Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it” “The best careers advice to give to the young is 'Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay Katherine Whitehorn

But I am not train to do career guidance …

Role as a CT (PCME)  Knowledge  Skills  Experience ECG Committee - Training - Resources

Support from ECG Committee  Training - Career Guidance Framework - Career Interests  Resources - Career lessons (16 May / 15 Jul)  Support Services

Career Guidance 4-8 Framework

Career Guidance 1. Who am I? 2. Where am I going? 3. How do I get there? 4. Developing a Career/ Education Plan

Career Wheel Career Pathways 2nd ed., Amundson & Poehnell (1996).

Who am I? Interests (Holland’s Code) Values Skills Personality

Sharing of RIASEC profile  Typical Teacher Profile  Surprised at occupations  Wrong career choices?

Interpreting Holland’s Codes  Interests can change  Exploratory (not predictive)  Career Clusters (list of occupations)  Values and Roles not considered  No consideration for development of career choice (i.e. social learning)  Classroom debrief important

Support from ECG Committee  Training - Career Guidance Framework - Career Interests – Holland’s Theory  Resources - Career lessons (16 May / 15 Jul) - Other related Resources  Support Services

Civics Period (C1) Career Lesson 1 Who am I? Explore interests Career Lesson 2 Where am I Going? Career and Education exploration

Civics Period Career Lesson 3 How do I get There? (Part 1) Eportfolio Career Lesson 4 How do I get There? (Part 2) Education and Career Planning Module => ecareers.sg

Making Career Lessons Work – Some preliminaries  Two weeks before CT on 16/5 - Student to create ecareers account - Send soft copy of instruction to students - Sign up for portal training (if necc)  One week before lesson on 16/5 - Ensure all students have access and refer to ECG committee if there are problems - Remind students to bring computers - Load and familarise self with Portal introduction video/ slides/ Lesson plan/ RIASEC slides

Making Career Lessons Work – Some preliminaries  One Day before CT on 16/5 - Ensure slides are loaded into computer for use in class - Ensure total nos of worksheets printed tally with nos of students  Civics on 16/5 - Show up in class - Call IT support / ECG Committee if problem with wireless access/ access

Making Career Lessons Work – Some preliminaries  Two weeks before CT on 15/7 - Remind students to complete the worksheet from previous lesson  One week before lesson on 15/7 - Remind students to bring computers - Load and familarise self with Lesson plan/ Career and Education function in ecareers.sg

Making Career Lessons Work – Some preliminaries  One day before 15/7 - Remind students to bring their worksheet from previous class - Ensure Worksheet 1 and 2 are prepared for lesson  Civics on 15/5 - Show up in class - Call IT support / ECG Committee if problem with wireless access/ access

Support Resources/ Service for Civics  Introduction to ecareers video  Introduction ecareers slides  Introduction to Holland’s RIASEC codes slides  Career Guidance Model  Worksheets for lesson 1 and 2  Training for ECG Portal (4 th May – E306B; 230 – 4 pm)

Career Resources 1. ecareers Assessments (Who am I?) Occupation Database (Where am I going?) Education Database (How to get there?) Eportfolio/ Education and Career Planning Module (Career Decision)

Career Resources 2.Career Compass Search occupations according to industries, occupations and qualifications

Career Resources 3.Brightsparks Scholarships Higher Education Careers Students’ Jobs

Career Resources 4. ONET Search occupations according to industries, occupations and qualifications

Career Resources 5. Career Guide 2011 Overview of key industries Salary, description of jobs Special topics

Events to Note 1.Term 2: Career Talks 2. June TAG 3.Term 3: Scholarships Day 4.Nov TAG

Support Services ECG Wikispace ( CT Training 2011 Career Workshops for students Career Counselling for students (Thurs and Fri; 1400 – 1600 hours)

Albert Tan M. Ed (Counselling Psychology, UBC) Adv. Postgrad Dip in Guidance and Counselling (NTU/ NIE)