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Why WOW is Important…

WOW is a national initiative that builds the skills and beliefs necessary for young people to make successful transitions into life beyond school. Why WOW is Important…. Need Transition to work and/or further study is becoming more difficult for early school leavers

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Why WOW is Important…

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  1. WOW is a national initiative that builds the skills and beliefs necessary for young people to make successful transitions into life beyond school.

  2. Why WOW is Important… Need Transition to work and/or further study is becoming more difficult for early school leavers • One quarter of 20 to 24 year-olds are not in full-time work or full-time study • 16% of teenagers are not fully engaged in either work or study (How Young People Are Faring, 2010) • More Australians leave school at 16 than in most other OECD countries http://www.oecd.org/document/49/0,3746,en_21571361_44315115_42569009_1_1_1_1,00.html)

  3. Why WOW is Important… Need • Smooth transitions most often involve education and training, however there is a growing need to... • Provide new ways of looking at career development to meet young people’s needs • Engage community partners • Use integrated curriculum approaches

  4. Why WOW is Important… Need Students crave more connection with the real world, more independence, and more relevant class content. The Foundation for Young Australians (2010). Report of Business-School Connections Roundtable senior stakeholder and youth consultation.

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  6. What does the standard week look like?

  7. What does the WOW Program achieve? What does the WOW program achieve? • Encourages participants to develop aspirations for their future and what they can achieve • Increases participants’ understanding of their personal strengths • Increases participants’ awareness of different options for work and study • Increases participants ability to set goals, take up new opportunities and cope with setbacks • Increases participants’ individualised understanding of what it takes to lead a successful life and work • Enhances the development of participants’ employability skills • Promotes partnerships across young people, schools and workplaces

  8. Evaluations Process… Surveys • Friday at end of program and 3 – 6 months later • Students, Teachers and Workplace volunteers Interviews • 3 – 6 months later • Most significant change workshop • Studentsand Teachers Case studies • Each year we complete a case study on1 -2 schools wow experience

  9. WOW 2011 Mid-Year Results!STUDENT SURVEYS

  10. THE NSW WOW PILOT… • Facilitation of the WOW pilot weeks • FYA will provide one trained WOW facilitator for each pilot week • Each region to provide the second facilitator (who attended the training) • Workplace coordination of the WOW pilot weeks • FYA will organise and coordinate the Thursday morning “Networking Breakfast” workplace visit which will be in the Sydney/Canberra CBD . • Each Region to organise the 2 Tuesday afternoon “Welcome to my World” sessions, and the 2 Wednesday “Classroom to Boardroom” workplace visits • Venues for each WOW pilot week • Vocational Education in Schools Directorate, regional consultants,partnership brokers and FYA will work together to source a suitable venue for the training and for each of the pilot WOW weeks to take place.

  11. THE NSW WOW PILOT… • Promotion to schools • 3 – 4 NSW Pilot Weeks in term 4 2011/term 1 2012 • Each Region responsible to promoting and confirming schools (FYA to support with promo materials) • FYA will support in the WOW school admin process. • Delivery cost of $150 per student per week (25 students required for each week).

  12. A taste of WOW in Action...Classroom to Boardroom Lunch

  13. What next? • Who does what from here... • Lock in dates for each region’s pilot week ASAP. • Identify and secure appropriate venue ASAP. • Each region responsible for promoting to and confirming schools • 1st September FYA will support in the WOW school admin process once a schools locked in. • Partnership Brokers lock in 4 workplace visits for • their regions by 1st October • School induction sessions held at least 2 weeks before pilot

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