Careers teaching resources that cover key stage 3 options through to post 16 opportunities
116 Resources available for download in this subject
When it comes to preparing careers lessons, where do you start? With over 100 careers teaching resources below you will be spoilt for choice.
Whether it’s for an enrichment day, off-timetable event, through the curriculum or a form time exercise, the worksheets and activities are flexible and varied, so can be selected to meet your needs.
With the ready-to-use lesson plans, you can login, download, print off and use today in all of your KS3 and KS4 Careers classes.
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KS4 Career Opportunities
Two careers activities designed to help students think about their career choices.
KS4 Careers Research Skills
As part of a programme of careers research activities, these lessons help students understand their own personal skills and what employers will expect of them in the real world.
KS4 Customer Service
In this activity students use a game to help them understand the key points of good customer service.
KS4 Health & Safety
These activities are useful for pre-work experience or as part of work-related learning or diploma programmes of study.
KS4 Labour Market Information
These activities help students to understand the bigger picture regarding the labour market and employment trends.
KS4 Society, Health & Development
These lessons include topics such as the future of the sector, daily scenarios, and roles in healthcare.
KS4 Skills
Three activities including functional skills, thinking skills and identifying what skills you have, and which you may need to develop as part of your careers planning.
KS4 Sport and Active Leisure Diploma
These Sport and Active Leisure Diploma activities include topics such as functional skills, customer service skills, careers research and labour market information.
KS3 - Options in Year 9
Make students reflect upon their personal skills and help them find what abilities they have in different options subject areas.
KS3 - Work and wages - 4 lessons
4 lessons introducing the topic of work, wages, the minimum wage, and explores the history of children and work.
KS3 - Professional Skills and Career Planning - 6 form time activities
SkillsActive are delighted to provide UK schools with these lesson plans for careers at key stage 3.
KS3-4 - Financial capability - 1 form time activity
Form time activities are devised by teachers and are designed to fill 20 minutes of teaching time. Ideal for lesson fillers, form periods or tutor time.
KS3-4 - What's the point? - Assembly plan
Why is it important to study subjects such as citizenship and PSHE? This assembly idea highlights the key reasons why they are equally as important as the core subjects.
KS3-4 - Welcome back - Assembly plan
In this assembly, we welcome students back from the summer break and encourage then to think about targets for the coming year.
KS3-4 - Attendance - Assembly plan
Assembly for KS3 or KS4 stressing the importance of good attendance at school.
KS3-4 - Careers interviews with students - Teacher Guidance
Article written by careers expert practioner on making the most of careers interviews with students.
KS4 - Transitions - 4 lessons
KS4 teaching resources which find out what is avaliable to students, and the transition to post 16 education.
KS4 - Careers Research and Action Planning - 4 lessons
These lessons offer a way of helping students understand what is the best way forward in terms of deciding what they want to do when they leave school.
KS4 - Research Skills - 3 lessons
Present information on how to research future career possibilities and how to use different research skills.
KS4 - Gap Years - 4 lessons
A series of lessons that will explore what a gap year means, what people can do and whether it would be something that would interest them.
KS4 - Enrichment Day Programme
Complete Enrichment Day Programme in association with SkillsActiveCareers.
KS4 - Qualifications - 3 form time activities
In this series of three short activities, students take a look at the alternative qualifications and pathways available to them.
KS4 - Careers Convention - Toolkit
KS4 - Careers Convention - Toolkit. A host of materials including a workbook for students, teacher support and even briefing materials for exhibitors.
Careers Education
Giving students the knowledge and skills to develop their personal well-being and financial capability can happen both inside and outside school. Giving them a broad range of careers education will help to explore the opportunities they have once they leave school. The Department for Education has amended the responsibility for careers advice and guidance, meaning schools will be responsible for securing access to impartial careers guidance for pupils in years 9-11. It is anticipated that this will be extended to cover careers education in years 8-13. Further information about the new National Careers Service will be included here as it becomes available
Careers Teaching Resources
With careers worksheets and careers teaching resources covering both key stage 3 and key stage 4, there are plenty of lesson plans to choose from. Created by advanced skills teachers (ASTs), the activities are designed so that they can be delivered as part of a structured programme of study, or as discrete modules for use perhaps in a form time or assembly group.
Careers Topics
Topics include, career opportunities, research skills, customer service, health & safety, labour market information, society health & development, skills, sport & active leisure, options in year 9, work & wages, professional skills & career planning, financial capability, interviews, transitions, qualifications and gap years. There are also enrichment day or careers convention resources, assembly plans and a careers assessment tool. In this careers section, you will also find teaching resources from the Sector Skills Councils, covering specific careers including case studies.
Careers Information Advice & Guidance for Teachers
There are a number of organisations that can help to guide careers teachers. The Association for Careers Education and Guidance is a useful source of information, while Cegnet is the website for professionals working in careers education, information, advice and guidance.
Cross Curricular – Work-related Learning and Enterprise
As part of the provision for Economic wellbeing and financial capability, you may also find useful careers teaching resources in the work-related learning and enterprise sections of this website.