Aspire Generation - Skills for Every Job

Australian curriculum content descriptions:

Year 9 Work Studies:

• Plan and implement strategies and processes to improve their learning and enhance the potential to realise their aspirations and personal wellbeing (ACWSCL005) 
• Describe the nature of work in Australia and the implications for current and future work opportunities (ACWSCL015) 
• Investigate a wide range of occupations, and the skills and personal qualities required in these fields (ACWSCL006) 

Year 10 Work Studies:

• Explain the range of skills and attributes necessary to work effectively in the 21st century (ACWSCL025) 
• Analyse emerging approaches to work and the implications these have for workers to be flexible, proactive and responsive (ACWSCL034) 

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

Relevant parts of Year 9 achievement standards: Students understand the importance and components of self-directed and lifelong learning. They investigate the skills and personal qualities associated with a range of occupations and explain the importance of teamwork and collaboration. 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. 

Relevant parts of Year 10 achievement standards: Students explain the relationship between changing circumstances, learning and 21st century work opportunities and identify the skills needed to manage changes. They analyse emerging 21st century work arrangements and the resultant changing relationships between participants, the opportunities arising and the skills needed for these emerging work arrangements.

Unit of work: Aspire Generation – Work Studies

Time required: 90 mins.

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – facilitate class discussion.

Student Worksheets – one copy per student OR computers/tablets to access the online worksheet. List of Transferable Skills, Time Management Challenge instructions (print enough for each group of three students), device capable of presenting a video to the class, Pyramid reflection print-out (print one per student – optional).

• Collaboration
• Critical thinking
• Social skills

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