1. UNIT 15
WORLD OF WORK

2. Relationship between performance in school subjects and interests and abilities
Gr8 – nine subjects
People enjoy spending time doing things that they are interested in.
If they have an ability or are talented, they probably perform well ( school subjects aswell).
Gr 9 choose you subjects for Gr10-12
4 Compulsory
3 Subjects of choice

3. Very important that you consider you interests and abilities as your choice will determine your path of tertiary study and your career.

4. Self-knowledge : interests, personality , talents, abilities, values.
Self-knowledge Career field
GR University Course
CAREER
Activity 15.1

5. TYPES OF LEARNING ACTIVITIES:
4 CATEGORIES:
Practical learning activities
Theoretical learning activities
Individual learning activities
Group learning activities

6. 1) Practical learning activities
Involve doing something practical with your hands or body in order to learn.
2) Theoretical learning activities
Involves ativities working with ideas and systems of information in order to learn.

7. Practical and theoretical activities have a strong relationship.
Theory you learn at school is in the form of content knowledge and information.
You apply your theoretical knowledge by doing practical activities.
Your understanding of theory it improves by your practical experiences.
Most subjects at school have a mixture of theoretical and practical activities.
Examples p

8. 3) Individual learning activities
On your own in order to learn
2) group learning activities
Work with others in order to learn.
Examples on p. 97 and 98

9. DEMANDS FOR EACH SUBJECT
Thinking is central to the learning.
Thinking and learning skills are your abilities to understand and process information.
Your thinking and learning skills allow you to go through the process of building on or changing what you already know.

10. Thinking and learning skills:
Analytical
Creative
Critical
Independent
Logical
Practical

11. Thinking and learning skills
Analytical thinking :
Looking at how the parts of a whole
relate to one another in order to
understand the situation or
information.
2) Creative thinking :
New and original ideas
to meet a need or solve a
problem.
Good imagination
Think ‘outside the box’

12. Critical thinking : Questioning information and examining it carefully from different points of view and deciding whether or not to accept it.
Critical thinking uses logic to evaluate
behaviour , opinion or
information and
come to an informed
decision.

13. 4) Independent thinking: Being able to think for yourself and come to your own understanding of information or forming your own opinion.

14. Logical thinking:
Using reasoning and a step-by-step approach
to understanding information.
6) Practical thinking:
Being able to think about how a method or
an idea will work in practise.
Examples p

15. THE DECISION-MAKING PROCESS
Choosing a career is one of the biggest decisions you will make in you life so it is important to get it right!

16. DECISION-MAKING STEPS
KNOW YOURSELF
What is your personality? What are your values?
Strengths ? Abilities? Interests? Passion?
FIND OUT ABOUT CAREER CATEGORIES
What are the different career categories?
What are the interests, abilities, thinking and learning skills and school subjects of each category?
MATCH YOURSELF WITH A CAREER CATEGORY
Which career category matches you and your interests, abilities, strengths, passion best?

17. Do act. 15.4