Aspire Generation - Setting Your Path

Australian curriculum content descriptions:

Year 9 Work Studies:

• Recognise the importance of self-awareness in career and life design (ACWSCL013) 
• Source career information and resources (ACWSCL014) 

Year 10 Work Studies:

• Apply knowledge of self to career decision-making processes (ACWSCL032) 
• Use career decision-making processes to filter career scenarios (ACWSCL033) 

General capabilities: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability

Relevant parts of Year 9 achievement standards: Students explain the relationships between self-awareness and career planning resources. They investigate the changes occurring in work, workplaces and work-related relationships and the factors contributing to the changes. They identify opportunities associated with these changes. Students create career scenarios and identify the skills to manage career transitions.

Relevant parts of Year 10 achievement standards: Students understand the importance of growing self-awareness in improving learning, accessing work opportunities and developing appropriate skills and making more-informed subject and career choices. 

Unit of work: Aspire Generation – Work Studies

Time required: 120 mins (or 2x 60 mins).

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – facilitate class discussion.

Student Worksheets – one copy per student OR computers/tablets to access the online worksheet. Device capable of presenting a video to the class, enough laptops/tablets for one per student or in pairs, research guide (print enough for one guide per student). A3 paper (optional), printer (optional), glue (optional), Blu-Tack.

This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:

• Communication
• Critical thinking
• Creativity
• Social skills
• Initiative
• Digital literacy

This lesson supports La Trobe University’s Aspire Generation initiative, which empowers students to drive change through community engagement, volunteerism and leadership opportunities.