Year 9 Tutor Time Autumn 1

1. Year 9 Tutor TimeAutumn 1 Unit 1 Careers and Aspirations

2. Resource ListThese resources are also itemised on the Teacher Guidance Notes front page for each lesson in the powerpoint. A resource pack will be provided to you before the start of the unit. • Projector • Speakers • Internet • Post-it notes • C1-C25 signs • Job cards x8 • Careers Advice sign (to be displayed in the classroom) • ICT – laptops or iPads • Career Exploration worksheets x30 • Dice and counters x6 sets

4. L1 – Teacher Guidance The aim of this lesson is for students to consider the difference between a job and a career and to start to identify careers that they would like to pursue and plan for how they would get there. They will also be considering the idea of aspirations and assessing their own skills, interests and life priorities. Resources needed: access to the internet from whiteboard, speakers, Diamond 9 cards Starter (10mins) – Students look at the photo segments on the slide and try to identify which jobs are represented. Teacher reveals the different jobs. Ask the class which they would describe as ‘jobs’ and which as ‘careers’. Elicit what the difference is and perhaps that any job could be a career depending on a variety of things. Part 2 (5mins) – Students choose what their dream career might be and write a short paragraph using the sentence starter on the slide. You could also just ask students to think of an answer and then get verbal feedback Part 3 (15mins) – Diamond 9 activity. Talk to students about the fact that their life priorities will have some impact on what they decide to do in the future. Show the example on the slides to explain the task and then hand out the card sorts. Students work in pairs to complete. As they complete they write a reflection on this task using the structure in slide 8. Have slide 8 on the board. Choose some pairs to give feedback on their top and/or bottom priority, giving reasons for their answers. Part 4 (5mins) – Tell students you are going to play a song. They should listen to it and read the lyrics and try to work out what the message of the song is. Get feedback on what students think the message is. Elicit motivation, hard work and aspiration if they don’t come up Part 5 (15mins) – students write a letter/note to their future self, outlining what their dream is and what they have to do to reach that goal. Plenary (10mins) – Ask students to select a key sentence from their letter to share with the class. Choose random students to read the sentence they chose.

5. L1 Aspirations Learning Objectives • Understand the difference between ‘job’ and ‘career’ • Evaluate your life priorities • Assess needs, interests, skills, attitudes and aspirations

6. Play – Which job is that? Pilot Waiter Chef Marine Mechanic What is the difference between a job and a career?

7. Aspirations Setting goals for the future – what is your dream and how can you get there? If you could pick any dream career, what would it be and why? Write a short paragraph explaining your answer. In the future I would like to be…because…

8. What is important to you? Most important Money Being famous Being the boss Least important

9. What is important to you? Most important Having a family Job satisfaction Being famous Least important

10. My top life priority is… This is important to me because… My least important life priority is… This is less important to me because… Extension – start to think about how this fits in with your dream job – do they match up?

11. Listen to the song and read the lyrics. What is the message of the song? Hall of Fame

12. What do the underlined parts suggest? Yeah, you can be the greatestYou can be the bestYou can be the King Kong banging on your chestYou could beat the worldYou could beat the warYou could talk to God, go banging on his doorYou can throw your hands upYou can beat the clockYou can move a mountainYou can break rocksYou can be a masterDon't wait for luckDedicate yourself and you gon' find yourself Standing in the hall of fameAnd the world's gonna know your name 'Cause you burn with the brightest flameAnd the world's gonna know your nameAnd you'll be on the walls of the hall of fameYou can go the distanceYou can run the mileYou can walk straight through hell with a smileYou could be the heroYou could get the goldBreaking all the records they thought never could be brokeYeah, do it for your peopleDo it for your prideHow you ever gonna know if you never even try?

13. Writing a letter to your future self Using everything you know about… • Your life priorities • The need to keep yourself motivated • Having aspiration • Working hard • Following your dreams Write yourself a letter to open when you are 30. Dear… You may remember back in year 9 that you realised that job satisfaction and feeling challenged are the most important life priorities for you. Don’t give up on this. Even if you feel that you have not yet reached where you want to go, keep yourself focused. You can succeed if you work your hardest…

14. Plenary • Choose one sentence from your letter to yourself that you think is the best or has the most important message • The teacher will ask some students to read their selected sentence to the class

15. L2 – Teacher Guidance The aim of this lesson is for students to evaluate range of careers information for reliability and relevance to their own context. They will also understand the usefulness of local labour market information in choosing a career and consider the link between the job market and their chosen profession. Resources needed: post-it notes, signs for the wall with C1-C25 (one number on each piece of paper), job cards x8 Starter (5mins) –Students look at the different sources of information on the slide and rank them according to how useful they think they would be in helping to plan their future career. Get feedback. Part 2 (10mins) – Students look at the list of different career areas and choose which one their dream job would be in. The write their career choice on a post-it and stick it under the number signs that are stuck up around the room (C1-C25). Ask students to stick each post-it one under the other so that it is easy to see results.Look at results and discuss where the most and least post-its are and why Part 3 (10mins) – Show students the graph and point out the particular parts that are highlighted on slide 18. Compare to what the class results showed. Use slide 20 to talk to students about labour market information, what it is and why it is important. Part 4 (20mins) – Change, change, change Activity – Divide the class into 8 groups and give them an occupation type. On each of the following slides a particular change scenario will be given that will affect the local labour market in some way. Students have to work out with their group whether their occupation would increase in availability or decrease and give suggestions about why. The should also consider whether there are any new jobs that might need to be created. Home Learning(5mins) – explain the Home Learning task to students. They need to collect information about jobs in the local area and bring them in to stick on a class poster about the local labour market. Plenary (10mins) – News Flash Summary. Students prepare a headline for a newspaper or 30-60 second news flash that summarises one thing they have learnt this lesson.

16. L2 Sourcing and Using Information Learning Objectives • Evaluate the usefulness of different types of information • Access different sources of careers information • Analyse the link between labour market information and their personal career choice

17. Starter • Look at the different sources of information below. Rank them according to how useful you think they would be to you in planning for your career – 1 is most useful • Careers Advisor • Labour Market information (what kinds of jobs are available) • Careers websites (such as Connexions) • Your parents or carers • Do volunteer work or a part-time job • Newspapers • People who work in the field you are interested in • Your tutor • Library

18. Straw Poll • Look at the following slide that shows a list of the different occupational areas • Next to each occupation there is a code • Look through the list and decide which area your dream career would be in (ask your teacher if you’re not sure) • Write your code on a post it note • Put your post-it note on the wall under the appropriate sign. • Make sure you put one post-it under another so that they form a line underneath each sign

20. Results • Look at the results of your poll • Where are most of the choices? • Look at the graph on the next slide • The purple lines show the % of 13-14 year olds choosing a career in this area • How similar or different were the results of your class? • The green lines show what % of workers will be required for that career up to 2020 • What does that mean for your careers choice?

22. This is called Labour Market Information • Why is it important to consider Labour Market Information when you are making career choices? • Or is it important? • How would you find out the Labour Market Information for Greenwich?

23. Change, Change, Change • Divide class in 8 groups • Each group will be given an occupation type • On each of the following slides a particular change scenario will be given • Students have to work out with their group whether their occupation would increase in availability or decrease • Are there any new jobs that might need to be created?

24. The number of births in the area increase by 20%

25. A new factory is planned for the area, specialising in the creation of electric cars

26. The DLR line is to be extended from Woolwich to Eltham by 2020

27. The World Cup will be hosted by England in 2026

28. A film company is going to use the Greenwich area as the setting for a new blockbuster film

29. Home Learning • Using local sources (e.g. newspapers), the internet and their own knowledge, students collect information about local jobs and careers. • They should bring in newspaper clippings, printed information from the internet, graphs, quotes, interviews with parents etc to contribute to a class poster illustrating the local labour market.

30. Plenary • Students prepare a headline for a newspaper or 30-60 second news flash that summarises one thing they have learnt this lesson

40. Where can I get Careers Advice? • Connexions - http://www.centrallondonconnexions.org.uk/ • They have a lot of career information, plus useful links • Careers Advisor in school • Ms Springer (Humanities office) • The Point • Opening hours: 9am to 5pm • Riverside Centre,Woolwich High Street,Woolwich SE18 6DF020 8921 8224

41. L3 – Teacher Guidance The aim of this lesson is for students to conduct their own career exploration and to appreciate that choosing a career is a serious business that has many different considerations. They will identify a career area that seems right for them and then work on getting to know more about that career choice. They should be able to use knowledge gained in previous lessons to inform this work. Resources needed: student laptops or iPads, career exploration worksheets (if wanted) Starter (10mins) – Quick Quiz – Which Career is Right for Me? Students complete the quiz shown on the slide by choosing the relevant letter. The teacher shows the next slide for students to consider what their answers say about them and the kind of job they might want or be good at. Part 2 (10mins) – Context setting discussion. This can be done by asking students to think of or write responses to each of the questions on the slide and then choosing random students to share their ideas. Or it could be done by grouping the students and allocating one question to each group, have them come up with a response and then feed back to the class. Part 3 (35mins) – Students perform their own career exploration. You can hand out sheet to help them to focus their search or just use the questions on the slide. Students should aim to answer all questions. You may want to choose some particular questions that must be done, but this will depend on your class. Plenary (5mins) – Mystery Guest. Each student uses the occupation that they have been researching. Invite one student at a time to the front of the room. The rest of the class questions them (to strictly ‘yes’, ‘no’ or ‘don’t know’ responses) to work out which occupation they have chosen. Students cannot ask a question or make a guess if they already know which occupation the person chose!

42. L3 Career Exploration Learning Objectives • Identify one or more careers that they think they could pursue • Conduct research on a career option of choice • Consider the major elements of career exploration • Understand that career choice should be about more than pay considerations

43. Which Career is Right for Me?Answer this quick quiz as honestly as you can. Don’t think about your answers too much, go withyour instinct. If you think that none of the answers relate to you, go with the closest one to how you feel.Write down the letter of each answer you choose.

44. What do you answers say about you?

45. What is Career Exploration? • Put your hand up if you know what kind of career you want to pursue Discussion • What is career exploration? Why is it important to begin exploring careers now? • Do you believe there is only one job for any one person? Why or why not? • Do you believe that once you decide on a job, you should stick with it for the rest of your life? Why or why not? • What things are important to you in a job? In other words, what things are you looking for in a job?

46. Career Exploration • You will be spending the rest of this lesson researching a career that you are interested in • There are a range of questions that you will need to answer • You should start by using one of the following sites; • Connexions London (www.centrallondonconnexions.org.uk) - a careers information and advice site. Click on Bitesize Factsheets or Job Information Sheets on the home page • Fast Tomato (http://www.fasttomato.com/) – a careers guidance service to help you to choose a career

47. Use your research to answer the following questions… 1. What career did you choose to explore? Why did you choose this career? 2. What does a person with this job do? 3. What kind of education would you need to have this job? 4. Approximately how much money would you make with this job? 5. How many of these jobs are there in the UK? 6. What is the future for this job? Will it become more or less popular? Why? 7. What are jobs that are similar to this one? 8. What kinds of future development opportunities are there in this job?

48. PlenaryMystery Guest Each student should now have an occupation that they have been researching. Invite one student at a time to the front of the room. The rest of the class questions them (to strictly ‘yes’, ‘no’ or ‘don’t know’ responses) to work out which occupation they have chosen. You cannot ask a question or make a guess if you already know which occupation the person chose!

49. L4 – Teacher Guidance The aim of this lesson is for students to continue their careers exploration work but to take it one step further. They will use the information and skills that they have developed so far to create a futuristic job that doesn’t yet exist. This will help them to understand what is required in preparing themselves for a future that is not always certain. Resources needed: Projector/sound Starter (5mins) – Ask students to imagine what job they might have in 30 years time. It can be a job that they already know of and want or they can make something up (it is 30 years in the future after all!). Part 2 (10mins) – Watch Shift Happens. As students watch they take notes of the different things that have changed over time in terms of technology, population, communication and jobs. This information will help them later in the lesson. Part 3 (10mins) – look at and discuss the future jobs that some people have identified. There are many of these on the internet and you can encourage students to tell the class about some that they have seen or even ones that they can imagine. Part 4 (20mins) – Students create their own 21st Century job, using the information that they have seen about the way the world is changing, the examples they have just seen and what they know about careers from previous lessons or their own knowledge. They could present their job in the way that the examples are presented. Plenary (15mins) – Students present a verbal Job advert to a group of their classmates. Circulate to hear as many of the adverts as possible.

50. L4 A 21st Century Career Learning Objectives • Recognising the value of lifelong learning • Demonstrating critical thinking • Analysing and evaluating academic and career skills needed in occupational areas • Differentiating among personal qualities that are needed for particular careers • Thinking creatively