Career Development and Transition Support Services Audit and Planning Tool Dr Peter Carey & Bruno Pileggi June 2010

WA Guidelines for Career Development and Transition Support Services Career development in schools needs to: be a “K-12 whole school approach”. It is the responsibility of all teachers - for all students not just the Career Development Practitioner if it is to be sustainable. Parents must be engaged and involved. all teachers have the support of the school’s Leadership Team be part of the school’s ongoing strategic planning and evaluation … Career Development needs to be seen as an important education goal of the school. have adequate resources allocated to provide essential services and information products KEY PRINCIPLES

Eleven (11) essential Career Development Services and programs in schools must include:  Transition Support: Individual Pathway Plans (IPPs), a Transition Portfolio, a Exit Plan  Follow-up Support  Career Development Support  Career Education  Enterprise Education  VET in Schools (VETiS), Workplace learning and Vocational Education  Career Information, Guidance and Counselling  Placement or Referral  Access and Equity- Individual Support Approaches  Monitoring and Tracking  Mentoring WA Guidelines for Career Development and Transition Support Services

An Audit and Planning tool An Audit and Planning tool has been developed to assist schools to implement the 5 key areas of the WA Guidelines and determine ‘where schools are at’ in relation to promoting and creating a career development culture in schools:Audit and Planning tool Whole School Planning, Support & Coordination Embedding the 11 Career Competencies of the Australian Blueprint (ABCD) Program Development & Redesign Effective Implementation of 11 essential career development programs and services Continual Promotion next

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Career Development means many things! In managing ones life students need: to be literate and numerate to feel good about oneself to be a good corporate citizens to be an active participant in the community to be a lifelong learner having an opportunity for psychological success to be resilient Manage Learning to develop learning to learn skills, metacognitive skills … to develop critical thinking skills to develop social and personal skills to navigate the curriculum to achieve WACE- make lifelong career choices to take responsibility for ones learning and career management Managing Work to plan, explore and make decisions about life, learning and work assisted through the participation in IPPs, transition planning and exit plans to develop career management skills Are these not the responsibility of ALL teachers? BackBack

Audit and Planning Tool What is it?  A framework to support schools in the design and implementation of a career development culture  Based on the Blueprint for Career Development (ABCD) and the WA Guidelines for Career Development and Transition Support Services

Audit and Planning Tool – How is it used? Audit Tool- Self assessment against a ‘rubric’ which identifies areas in need of attention Planning Tool- Using templates to identify proposed outcomes, actions and a timeframe

1: Whole School Planning, Support & Coordination  School & Community Support: Acceptance of the Leadership Team - all teachers – for all students - parents involved  Career Development Coordination of program and service delivery and their evaluation by someone?  Staff Professional Development  Sustainability

2. Embedding Career Competencies (ABCD) We need to:  Conduct a needs assessment: staff needs for delivery … are the students needs met?  Conduct an audit: are all the competencies of the ABCD being met? In what learning areas?  Identify connection with other programs – Integrated curriculum

3. Program Development / Redesign Program Delivery:  Individual Pathway Plans  Career Development & Transition Portfolio  Exit Plans  Career Education  Enterprise Education  VETis / Workplace learning  Other Programs; SSEP, mind matters, values education etc.

3. Program Development / Redesign Service Provision:  Career Information, Guidance & Counselling  Transition Support  Placement or Referral  Access & Equity  Monitoring & Tracking  Community, Industry & interagency relationships  Mentoring

4. Effective Implementation  Following through on decisions made  Monitor, Review & Evaluate

5. Continual Promotion  Promote the programs and services through staff, parent evenings etc. e.g. Develop and Implement a career resource centre

Resources Department of Education: Promoting a Career Development Culture in Schools file & Career Education lessons CD Department of Education: IPPs Cross Sectoral WA publication: Career Development and Transition Support Services file Victorian Government: Careers and Transition resource kit Career Keys (QLD): Career and Transition workbooks Careercope (Canada): Career education resource