Year 9 Career Development Program

Last week all Year 9 students commenced Stage 1 of their 2017 Career Development Program.

We have adopted a program written by the Career Education Association of Victoria (CEAV) - ‘Year 9 Career Education - Focusing on Careers’. In the front of the student workbook that accompanies the program, there is a message from CEAV to parents that reads:

Our young people must be ready to adjust to new situations, create opportunities and alter their plans. The purpose of this workbook is to encourage them to plan and begin to focus on that journey and develop the skills to make the many career and life decisions along the way.

As parents and carers, you have an important role in supporting your teenager by encouraging them to find their passions, explore their interests and assist them in understanding careers and education information.

We now know that the world of work has changed and continues to do so at a fast pace due to technological advances, artificial intelligence and globalisation amongst other things, meaning your child will face a very different career journey to that of their parents. We need to ensure that by the time our young people leave school they are equipped with the necessary employability and career management skills in order to navigate their career journey with confidence.

Stage 1 of this program covered employability skills recognised as transferrable and important for the future, personal values and how these can affect decisions and choices, then they completed a series of careers quizzes which led to the start of exploring some options aligned to their personalities, skills, interests and values.

From July 17 through to August 4 all Year 9 students will be working in their Learning Manager Groups on Stage 2 of this program - their Pre-Course Counselling Assignment, where they further explore options they may be interested in, courses offered that align with the career choices they like and finally researching which subjects to take at school that are a good match with their tertiary/work pathway. They will all be asked to take this home and have a parent/guardian read over this and sign to say you’ve discussed it with them. Then on August 8, students will attend an individual 15 minute appointment to select their Year 10, 2018 subject choices. We encourage parents to attend this appointment with their child.

Ms Cathy Armstrong

Careers Pathways VET Coordinator