Teachers TV Skills and Work Week
Careers education How teachers can help students develop sufficient self-awareness and understanding to make an informed career choice, in Developing Self-Understanding and Exploring the Workscape.
Enterprise Education In at the Deep End- A growing number of schools are boosting their careers education by setting up 'proper' businesses. The businesses are registered at Companies House, have boards and provide goods and services on a serious commercial basis. This programme examines a school doing just that, demonstrating how such initiatives work.
Business Champion Work experience is changing and becoming more focussed on developing a student's skills. The new trend of work experience stresses the need for students to understand business fully, rather than have only a taster of a career option. This programme follows a candidate on such a work placement, where they learn about basic business disciplines like punctuality, cooperation with colleagues and even appropriate clothing.
Teaching Key Skills This programme has a strong classroom emphasis, exploring a lesson plan based around the Community Game, similar to popular 'world-building' computer games. Students must construct a fully functional community with housing, employment, welfare and leisure facilities for its population. Using simple props and working in groups, the game teaches simple but fundamental lessons about supply and demand, employment and how businesses must exist within but also serve communities.
WorldSkills Championships Bound for Japan and Going for Gold in Japan follow the 23 young people representing Britain at the WorldSkills Championships in Japan. Watch as they are pitched against the world's best practitioners of vocational skills, from bricklaying to beauty therapy, and aim to improve on the three medals won by Britain two years ago. The programmes document the team's intensive training all the way through to the moment of truth, the medal ceremonies.
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