Name: Linking Curriculum Learning to STEM Careers
Rating: 4.86364 (22 reviews)

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How will you develop your students' career aspirations?

Enhance your role as a STEM (science, technology, engineering or mathematics) subject teacher by linking curriculum learning to careers. Through weekly tasks, you will identify how to adapt your STEM curriculum, bring in real-world contexts, work with STEM professionals and engage your students in careers linked to their classroom learning.

Learn from experienced educators who have adapted their teaching, worked with employers and collaborated with local STEM Ambassadors to create a careers-linked curriculum that both engages and inspires students within the STEM subjects.

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Skip to 0 minutes and 5 seconds GEMMA TAYLOR: As a teacher, you want your students to share your enthusiasm for your subject. Making you subject real and embedding how the curriculum links to future careers will raise your students’ aspirations and help them connect their learning to their career interests.

Skip to 0 minutes and 26 seconds SPEAKER 1: I think there’s a great opportunity for teachers to find themselves enhancing their lessons and helping young people with their future aspirations. It’s not just an add on or something that’s done by one or two specialists down the corridor somewhere. Everybody’s involved in that process.

Skip to 0 minutes and 43 seconds GEMMA TAYLOR: In this course, you will draw upon examples of effective careers learning, discover curriculum-linked careers resources, and hear from teachers who have embedded careers learning in their teaching.

Skip to 0 minutes and 54 seconds SPEAKER 2: It’s not redesigning the whole lesson. It’s just putting a spin on that lesson that you’re learning.

Skip to 0 minutes and 59 seconds SPEAKER 3: The value of getting employers to come in is just one word, experience. I teach what is limited, in terms of other careers and other professions. So get the experience in.

Skip to 1 minute and 10 seconds GEMMA TAYLOR: Over four weeks, you will explore your students’ careers needs, make small changes to your teaching, discover the value of working with employers, and support your students in evidencing their careers learning. Throughout the course, you’ll be building a STEM careers learning journey tailored to your subject, your students, and your school or college.

Skip to 1 minute and 29 seconds SPEAKER 4: We’ve put real purpose and context into learning. It’s created a window into the world of work.

Skip to 1 minute and 35 seconds SPEAKER 5: So if you can actually put it in context, pupils are going to relate to it to a higher standard. They’re more likely to actually remember it and get better GCSE marks.

Skip to 1 minute and 43 seconds SPEAKER 6: Students’ enthusiasm does increase.

Skip to 1 minute and 45 seconds SPEAKER 7: It’s a win-win situation.

Skip to 1 minute and 47 seconds GEMMA TAYLOR: Join us online to engage, inspire, and empower your students with a careers rich curriculum.

Syllabus

Week 1
Careers in your STEM teaching
- The difference you can make as a teacher
  Welcome to the course. To start, we introduce how embedding careers in the STEM curriculum is all about good teaching, then ask you to consider your role in supporting your students' to develop their career aspirations.
- Opportunities within your curriculum
  We’ll be introducing different ways to link the curriculum with STEM careers, but having an idea of a topic or part of the curriculum to work on will give you some focus during the course. Where would you start?
- Supporting your students
  A theme that you’ll encounter throughout the course is being able to tailor your teaching to your students’ needs and interests. What are their current aspirations and how might you broaden their horizons?
Week 2
Embedding career learning into your curriculum
- Small changes, big impact
  Welcome to week 2. This week is about how you can use small changes to planning and teaching to develop career learning in your curriculum.
- Making changes
  We’ve seen some examples, now it’s time to make a small change to a lesson that will support your students’ careers learning.
- Evaluating small changes
  Small changes can make a big difference, but it’s an iterative process that requires review of whether there is a positive impact on student learning. What do you do now to evaluate your small changes?
Week 3
Enhancing your curriculum with employers
- Working with employers
  This week you’ll go beyond small changes, to think about how employers and local industry can support career learning in your curriculum.
- Finding the right employers for your curriculum’s needs
  Now you’ve had an insight into the types of curriculum learning that employers can support, let’s explore how you might approach finding suitable employers to work with.
- Creating successful employer relationships
  With employer contacts established, what can you do to ensure that your employer relationships and engagements are a success?
Week 4
Embedding your career learning approach within your school or college
- Moving beyond the timetable
  Enrichment activities are a great way to provide career learning outside of lessons, providing students with opportunity to develop essential skills and explore their personal interests in STEM subjects and careers.
- Developing a careers learning journey
  Planning different forms of curriculum-linked careers learning, from small changes to embedded employer engagement, involves working with other. To start with, how might you represent the changes you are making?
- Whole school and college strategies
  Teachers should work together to support school and college careers strategies. As we have explored, embedding careers is about good teaching practice, but it doesn't have to mean increased workload.
- Reviewing your professional development
  Review your professional development and plan your next steps to sustain and develop the way you plan for learning.

Who is this accredited by?

The CPD Certification Service:

The CPD Certification Service was established in 1996 and is the leading independent CPD accreditation institution operating across industry sectors to complement the CPD policies of professional and academic bodies.

When would you like to start?

Start straight away and learn at your own pace. If the course hasn’t started yet you’ll see the future date listed below.

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What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

Engage students through linking STEM curriculum learning with careers, providing a real-life understanding of your subject and its relevance in future career paths.
Develop meaningful encounters for students with employers, linked to the teaching of your STEM subject.
Improve your curriculum content by applying a STEM careers learning journey approach.
Evaluate the impact of linking curriculum learning to careers contribute to discussions about careers education in your school or college.

Who is the course for?

This course has been designed for both secondary teachers and further education lecturers, with case studies and specific activities for each sector. This course is for all teachers, to enable you to embed careers learning in your classroom teaching. It is not a careers leadership course, however careers leads may find this course useful to support school and college strategies.

Our focus is on the UK STEM sector, however, we will be presenting the need for skilled work in STEM careers, reference the practise of employers through STEM volunteers, and approaches equally applicable to other countries.

Who will you learn with?

Gemma Taylor (Mentor)

I am the D&T, Engineering and Careers lead for STEM Learning UK. I started my career in industry as an engineer, then moved into teaching secondary D&T and Engineering.

Who developed the course?

National STEM Learning Centre

The National STEM Learning Centre provides world-class professional development activities and resources to support the teaching of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) subjects.

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