Career Management: Subject Choice in Year 9

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Age Range: KS3

Updated from: Year 9 Option Choice. This comprehensive pack helps students to assess their own abilities realistically, looks at the implications of subject choices, aids decision-making and gives a broad introduction to careers issues.

The pack is divided into eight sections: Rules for discussion; The student; The world of work; School focus; Compulsory subjects; Matching; Making option choices; Decision-making and ways forward.

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Size: 135 Pages
ISBN: 987 1 86025 442 0
Code: CMS9
Popularity rank: 382

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Contents List

LESSON

RULES FOR DISCUSSION - Activity pages to establish ways of working that are suitable when considering careers topics.

9 MOVING FORWARD
11 THE WHOLE TRUTH?
13 RECORD IT!
15 PICTURE THIS...
17 MESSAGE RECEIVED...

THE STUDENT - Establishing the personality, interests and beliefs of the students, which provide the foundation for future option choices.

21 RECOGNISE YOURSELF?
23 WHO AM I?
25 WHOSE JOB IS IT ANYWAY?
27 THAT'S YOUR JOB, MUM!
29 JOBS FOR THE BOYS
31 THE ONE AND ONLY...
33 POSITIVE SELF-ESTEEM
35 THEN AND NOW
37 SKILLS IN SCHOOL
39 YOUR LEARNING STYLE
41 THEY'VE GOT IT MADE!
43 THIS IS WHO I AM
45 WHAT CAN I OFFER?

THE WORLD OF WORK - Activity pages covering the context of the world of work, availability, alternatives and training, within which all career decisions should be taken.

49 JOB FAMILIES
51 SCHOOL WORK
53 BEHIND THE SCENES
55 A CAREERS LIBRARY VISIT
57 WHERE ARE THE JOBS?
59 WHERE NEXT?
61 DIRECTIONS
63 SURFING THE 'JOB NET'
65 LOOK OUT!
67 HEALTH AND SAFETY

SCHOOL FOCUS - Students find out what subjects their school has to offer and how it affects their choice.

71 SUBJECT GROUPS
73 A SUBJECT RECORD
75 QUALIFICATIONS
77 SUBJECT NEEDS
79 SUBJECT DEMANDS

COMPULSORY SUBJECTS - Focusing firmly on the National Curriculum demands and how this limits option choice.

83 IT'S COMPULSORY
85 SO WHAT WILL I HAVE TO DO?
87 NO OPTION A PROBLEM!

MATCHING - Linking together subject availability and personal interests and needs.

91 PERSONAL QUALITIES
93 MATCHING
95 QUALITIES, ATTITUDES AND SKILLS
97 WHAT ARE YOUR SKILLS AND ABILITIES?
99 QUALITIES AND WORK
101 WHICH FACE FITS?
103 WORK EXPERIENCE: STEP 1
105 WORK EXPERIENCE: STEP 2
107 HELP WANTED
109 WORKING TOWARDS A WORK VISIT
111 LOOKING BACK ON THE WORK VISIT

MAKING OPTION CHOICES - The process of making option choices and the people involved.

115 WHO'S INVOLVED?
117 WHO ARE YOUR INFLUENCES?
119 CAREERS ADVISORS
121 IN THE HOT SEAT
123 SELL YOURSELF

DECISION MAKING and WAYS FORWARD - Looking at the consequences of decisions once they have been made.

127 MAKE A DECISION
129 A TIME TO DECIDE
131 DECISIONS IN TIME
133 SNAKES AND LADDERS
135 AN EVALUATION
137 THE WAY WE WERE
139 OPTIONS ACTION PLAN
141 FUTURE OPTIONS