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Creating a whole school approach to career guidance. Workshop in Lillehammer 01/05/2019 Tristram Hooley. About the workshop. The workshop will look at how it is possible to build a whole school approach to career guidance in Norwegian schools.
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Creating a whole school approach to career guidance Workshop in Lillehammer 01/05/2019 Tristram Hooley
About the workshop The workshop will look at how it is possible to build a whole school approach to career guidance in Norwegian schools. It will draw on The Careers Leader Handbook as well as on other research. The workshop will be led by Tristram Hooley. Available from https://trotman.co.uk/our-books/careers-leader-handbook/
The CLH companion site https://www.trotman.co.uk/CLH/
Learning outcomes By the end of the workshop participants will be able to: • set out the key rationales for including career guidance within the school curriculum; • identify a range of approaches to delivering a whole school approach to career guidance; • define the roles that teachers, guidance counsellors, school leaders and others should play in a whole school approach to career guidance; and • enact a variety of strategies to drive change within the school.
Career is the individual’s journey through life, learning and work
Defining career guidance “Career guidance supports individuals and groups to discover more about work, leisure and learning and to consider their place in the world and plan for their futures… Career guidance can take a wide range of forms and draws on diverse theoretical traditions. But at its heart it is a purposeful learning opportunity which supports individuals and groups to consider and reconsider work, leisure and learning in the light of new information and experiences and to take both individual and collective action as a result of this.”
Introductions • Who are you? • Your role? • How close is your school to having a ‘whole school approach’ to career guidance? • What question do you want answered?
Career guidance is both part of an effectively functioning education and employment system; and a safeguard against ineffective and imperfect systems.
For individuals career guidance can provide… • A way to explore your future • Clarity of purpose • Understanding about how current actions link to future aspirations • Motivation to work on educational work (even when it is difficult) • Access to resources that may not be available through the family • Support with transitions
Learning as a social process • Vygotsky argues that learning is a social process. • It takes place through interactions with others. • Students learn from their peers as well as teachers. • Encouraging interaction, discussion and sharing supports learning.
Career is also a social process • Other people (social capital) provide us with resources that we can use both to learn and to enact our career. • The learners who you are working with might be supporting each other in their career long after you have stopped working with them. • Forming peer communities can support both career learning and career enactment. • Career education is a place that this can happen.
The school is both the context and the community for career learning
Good career guidance • Summarises existing evidence and frames good practice as eight benchmarks. • Presents it in a way that can be understood by policy makers and acted on by school leaders. • Has achieved wide support amongst policy makers and practitioners alike. p.14
What does a careers leader do? Careers leaders are responsible and accountable for the delivery of the school’s or college’s programme of career guidance Careers leadership involves: • planning, implementing and quality assuring a careers programme for the school or college • managing the delivery of career guidance • networking with external partners • co-ordinating the contributions of school or college staff p.127
Guidance in Finnish schools • One-to-one guidance counselling from trained professionals. • Careers lessons • Work experience in a structured programme • Opportunities to meet employers • Discussion of careers in subject based lessons • Individual learning plans • All teachers are responsible • Co-ordination by the guidance counsellor
Successful careers leadership • Clarity of role, made public • Authority and power (position) • Time and administrative support • Expertise and access to training/CPD p.139
Getting the team of colleagues on board • Explain what you are trying to do, and why • Lead by example • Celebrate and publicise success • Make it easy for them • Make sure SLT back you up • Ask for feedback and use their ideas p.142
Leading upwards • Advise SLT on policy, strategy and resources • Present proposals for developing the programme • Regular reviews with SLT link • Report on successes as well as areas needing improvement • Identify a link governor • Report to governors • Consider going for accreditation • Quality in Careers Standard • matrix p.143
Enhancing careers education through subject teaching • helping students understand the relevance and application of subject knowledge and skills in the workplace • helping students understand the progression routes and employment opportunities in the subject area • teaching planned elements of the careers education scheme of work, e.g. • targeted CVs in Norwegian • changes in local economy in humanities • digital career management skills in IT • helping students develop skills for independent learning p.69
How you can help other teachers • Curriculum and structure • Lesson plans • Resources • Advice and mentoring • Observations • Co-teaching
Linking subject teaching to careers Discussion • What strategies have you employed to engage with subject teachers and course leaders?
Whose CPD are you responsible for? Colleagues that you line manage • other members of the careers leadership team • careers adviser • careers administrator Colleagues whose contributions you ‘project manage’ • tutors • PSHE and careers teachers, personal development tutors • subject teachers and course lecturers • SENCO/head of learner support, head of sixth, librarian • link governor, senior leader i/c careers p.212
