Teaching Notes1 
Learning Outcomes
Introduction
Getting Organised
Outcomes will be evident when students:
- Investigate the varied nature of career paths,
- Collect information on how employment affects peoples lives,
- Manipulate digital technologies to communicate workplace information,
- Compare and contrast narrative descriptions of workplace experiences,
- Simulate real-life work experiences in classroom settings
- Conduct research, and interview community members.
Throughout this unit students create an imaginery "Career Character". As the character grows in personality students build and test their understanding of the nature and purpose of employment.
The imaginery career character grows in complexity as his/her profile is strengthened by the students’ developing understandings of:
The Logical Career Path: which puts peoples’ skills and knowledge to good use.
The Productive Workplace: where people and technologies are combined in productive processes.
The Good Manager: who coordinates activities that are effective, efficient, and equitable.
The Competent Worker: who can plan and organise, use information to communicate ideas, work in teams, and use maths and technology to solve problems.
The Purposeful Outcome: which results in the
production of knowledge or objects that benefit individuals, the community, or the
environment.
The class will need to be divided into eight groups (about four students per group). Each group will investigate, throughout the unit, one of the following 8 career categories:
- Work Around the House
- Community and Health
- Retail and Hospitality
- Office Administration
- Environments
- Leisure and Entertainment
- Transport and Travel
- Research and Development
The other sections of "On The Job" web site (Careers Mall, Detective Game, Fun Activities [online and off-line activities] and Life on the Job) have all been designed to complement and enhance this unit of work.
To begin the unit it’s important that the teacher gets
to know the student’s current understandings about employment.
On the Way to Work:
Younger Students
On the Way to Work: Older Students
