Career education has moved towards learning to manage and take responsibility for personal career development before even leaving school. The Career and Enterprise course equips students with the tools to head confidently into an uncertain future. It begins with recognising individual skills and talents, and moves on to using this understanding to find work and keep it. All aspects of work and patterns and economic restructuring are realities of the rapidly changing world of work students will be entering. Learning to deal with constant change through adaptability, enterprise and lifelong learning are vital elements of the course, along with exploration of social, cultural and environmental issues.
Prerequisites:
Nil
Syllabus:
This course is designed for students planning to complete Year 11 and 12, enter the workplace or enrol in a Training WA college during Upper School (not university bound). It is a compulsory course for the Certificate II in Business students and this course is available for all Year 12 students.
Unit 3
This unit is about adopting a proactive approach to securing and maintaining work and it involves self-management, using work search tools and techniques, developing career competencies and accessing learning opportunities. Opportunities are provided for students to further develop the repertoire of career competencies and work search techniques that are directly applicable to securing and maintaining work. Career portfolios are presented in a professional manner and reflect organisation of detailed records of work, training and learning experiences, especially those related to securing and maintaining work.
Unit 4
This unit explores issues associated with career management, workplaces and influences and trends in times of change. Change can be analysed and the information used to inform strategies associated with self-management, career building and personal and professional learning experiences. Work, training and learning experiences provide opportunities to extend students’ knowledge and skills in anticipation of responding to change and maintaining an edge. These experiences are documented in career portfolios, using an increasing range of information technology skills. Exposure to changing scenarios for career development provides opportunities to further develop career competencies and work search techniques, in particular those associated with planning and organisation, making decisions, identifying and solving problems and creativity and innovation.
Assessments:
Investigation: 30%
Production/Performance: 20%
Individual Pathway Plan and Career Portfolio: 20%
Response: 15%
Externally Set Task: 15%
Resources:
BSC Year 12 Career and Enterprise Course Booklet
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