Career Education from good to great

PPTA Issues and Organising Seminar

3 March 2012

Youth disadvantage

• New Zealand Institute» More ladders, fewer snakes

• Young Foundation» The way to work

• United Nations

• NZCER» Competent learners

A complex set of transitions

Young Foundation 2011

• ‘Labour market, organisational forms and employment structures and patterns have shifted, requiring a new type of workforce with new types of skills to adapt to new technologies, new competitors, new economic realities and the rapid pace of change’

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More engaged in education and work, through having a deeper

knowledge about themselves.

What might careers offer?

• Dialogue between learner and teacher

• Motivational

• Opportunity to see relevance of school studies

• Student-teacher partnerships

“The lifelong process of managing learning, work, leisure and

transitions in order to move towards a personally determined and

evolving future.”

[Canadian] National Steering Committee

for Career Development Guidelines and Standards, 2004

From advice to competency

Career Education Benchmarks

Self review toolBest practice guideNot just the careers teamkey student competencies

How do they fit?

Key structure

What students need

Students:

• have a strong awareness of self, their identity, language and culture, how they relate to others and their potential for development

• can identify the many future possibilities and opportunities available to them in life, learning and work.

• understand the consequences of their choices and decisions and the impact they have on themselves and others

• are able to make flexible life, learning and work plans. They have the capabilities to seek and secure opportunities and are adaptable and responsive to change.

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Career Development Plan

2020

• Sense making

• Novel and adaptive thinking

• Social intelligence

• New media literacy

• Computational thinking

• Cognitive load management

• Cross cultural competency

• Design mindset

• Virtual collaboration

2020 - Jobs in decline

1. Word processors/typists

2. Data entry keyboard operators

3. Miscellaneous Agricultural workers

4. Cooks - fast food

5. Postal service clerks

6. Switch board operators / answering services

7. Mail carriers

8. Sewing machine operators

9. Mail sorters

10. Farmers ranchers, agricultural managers

Source: US Department of Labour

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