Small changes to your teaching

Providing your students with a wide range of career learning experiences will support them to be better informed about their options, and draw links between what they are learning in your classroom and its importance to their future employability. As we move through this week, we will explore some quick ways to incorporate career learning into your schemes of work, providing multiple opportunities over a longer period of time for students increase their careers awareness.

Small changes

We’ve all had that moment when a student asks…“why are we learning this?”Drawing links between lesson content and careers is a strategy for strengthening engagement and promoting positive attitudes towards a subject.In the next few steps we look at three small changes, which draw on readily accessible resources to incorporate careers into your lessons.

1. Using examples of people, jobs and industries.
2. Making explicit links to the skills being used.
3. Contextualising the curriculum.

Choose a topic

By the end of the week you will have begun to incorporate curriculum linked career learning into a section of your scheme of work.

For now, have a look at your scheme of work and choose one topic area that you would like to make small changes to. You may find it useful to choose a topic that is coming up in your teaching, so you can try approaches out during the course whilst supported by mentors and other learners.