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Teacher Resources - for Careers or PSHE
SkillsActive are delighted to provide UK schools with these lesson plans for careers or PSHE at key stage 3. Each activity is designed to take around 20 minutes to complete, making them ideal for teaching during form time, or as part of a careers enrichment day. The activities are straightforward and effective, and have been developed in conjunction with students at four schools in Suffolk. Lessons can also be combined for longer sessions or use on their own for form periods or tutor time.
Introduction and guidance
Six lessons designed for use at key stage 3 careers or PSHE. Each is 20 minutes long - combine for longer sessions or use on their own for form periods or tutor time.
Lesson 1: Professional skills - the handshake
This is the second of three activities based on professional skills. Explain to the students that they will be role-playing a job interview. Working in pairs or threes, ask the students to agree the job that they will be interview for. One student will be the interviewer, one will be the interviewee.
Lesson 2: Professional skills - the interview
This is the second of three activities based on professional skills. Explain to the students that they will be role-playing a job interview. Working in pairs or threes, ask the students to agree the job that they will be interview for. One student will be the interviewer, one will be the interviewee.
Lesson 3: Professional skills - body language
This is the third activity based on professional skills. In this activity students will be studying body language. Select a student who is inadvertently demonstrating strong body language at their desk (leaning back in the chair, away from the desk or twiddling their hair!). Ask them to freeze. Ask the rest of the group to study the student's body language. What is it telling them?
Lesson 4: Establishing goals - the lifewrite
Explain the concept of a “lifewrite” to the students. This is a written statement of where you want to be by the time you are a certain age. You could suggest 16, 18 or 21. The statement has to be written in the present tense, and reflect real aims. For example “I am 16 and am starting an apprenticeship in construction” or “I am 18 and am living in my own house with my own car.” Try writing your own version to use as an example for the class. Tell the group that the goals need to be realistic, but can include pretty much anything. Use the PowerPoint presentation 'Setting Goals' if required.
Lesson 5: Reaching goals - the plan
Remind the students of their “lifewrites” from the previous session. Ask them to select one goal that relates to careers. In this session they will begin to plan realistically how to reach their goal.
Lesson 6: Clarifying goals - career pathways
In the previous session students were given a homework task. They had to do some online research into their chosen career goal taken from their “lifewrite”. Ask a number of students what career goal they had been researching and which website they used. How useful did they find the websites? Did they think the information could be biased at all? What other websites would they use for their careers research?
A list of websites available to research available qualifications, jobs and career paths.
A short presentation to support Lesson 4: Establishing goals - the lifewrite.
