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Title: Embedding careers education within our geography teaching


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Embedding careers education within our geography
teaching
  • Kate Amis
  • k.amis_at_rgs.org

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Why do it?
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1.OFSTED A Outcomes how well are pupils
doing, taking account of any variation?
  • The extent to which pupils develop their
    knowledge and understanding of the world of work
    and develop skills and personal qualities which
    will serve them well in education, training,
    employment and their future lives
  • The extent to which pupils understand their
    future options and develop aspirationsand
    understand how to achieve them

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2. Making it real
  • Geography is not just something we learn about ,
    it is something that people do

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3. The value of planning and target setting
  • Dreams are just unmade plans ??
  • Using ladders to plan backwards from a recognised
    goal, through a series of planned targets to an
    end result.

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Making plans
Looking at my future from here
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Your Career as a Ladder
My career choice
My university or training
Course choices 16 Work experience choices
Course choices 14
Here and now choices
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Three stages to robust progression
  • Research
  • Planning
  • Target setting

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4. Improve quality and quantity of options cohort
at GCSE and A Level
  • Understanding What you can do with it is the
    most important factor in why young people take
    (or dont take ) geography beyond 14
  • Discuss

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How to do it
  • Get an ambassador in !
  • Careers clips at start of new topic
  • http//www.geographyteachingtoday.org.uk/ambassado
    rs/ambassadors-online/physical-systems/
  • Career cards and Careers brochures
  • Going places events
  • Role play activity Hot air balloons
  • Company brochures
  • Online job pages
  • University courses and research projects
  • Venn diagrams
  • Geography team names
  • Skills auditing

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Discuss
  • There is no such thing as a geography job
    there are jobs that geographers do

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Skills audit for geographers
  • Academic
  • Literate scientists
  • Numerate social scientists
  • Synthesisers
  • Extended writers
  • Field researchers
  • Analytical
  • Proactive
  • Hands on

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Sources of information
  • The ambassadors section of Geography Teaching
    Today
  • Study geography section of the RGS website
  • GPWG brochures and DVD, Michael Palin letter and
    loan of careers displays _at_ no charge direct from
    RGS education dept
  • Careers pull out from geographical magazine
    September of each year
  • New GA careers resources
  • Uni geog dept web sections on employability
  • Prospects careers site
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