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Careers lesson plans that cover key stage 3 options through to post 16 opportunities
96 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.
Below are the topics available for this section. Click ‘Go to this section’ to see more lessons
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.
KS4 - Skills for Personal Development
Four activities about personal skills, 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 - Skills for the Workplace
These activities are useful for pre-work experience or as part of work-related learning or careers programmes of study.
KS4 - Research Skills - 3 lessons
Present information on how to research future career possibilities and how to use different research skills.
KS4 - Career Opportunities
Two careers activities designed to help students think about their career choices.
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 - Labour Market Information
These activities help students to understand the bigger picture regarding the labour market and employment trends.
KS4 - Transitions - 4 lessons
KS4 teaching resources which find out what is avaliable to students, and the transition to post 16 education.
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 - 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 Society, Health & Development
These lessons include topics such as the future of the sector, daily scenarios, and roles in healthcare.
Careers Teacher Toolkit
A selection of useful resources including a guide to interviews with students, careers convention materials, students assessment tool and enrichment day resources.
KS4 - Enrichment Day Programme
Complete Enrichment Day Programme in association with SkillsActiveCareers.
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.