Mapper: Navigating Digital Career Tools

Offered By: Founders4Schools via FutureLearn

Course Description

Overview

Help your students make more informed choices about their future

The job market has changed beyond all recognition over the last decade. On this course, you’ll learn how to better support your students as they make their way into the workplace.

You’ll explore a range of digital career tools available to help save your students’ time and make their transition into work easier, from work experience opportunities to employer engagement.

You’ll learn how to help your students understand the modern job market, and also improve your school or college’s career guidance offering so your students can make well-researched decisions about their future.

This course is designed for teachers in schools seeking professional development in preparing students for the world of work.

This course is relevant for all teachers in schools and further education who’d like to better understand how their students enter employment.

The course will emphasise the rise in demand for STEM but be accessible and appealing to all educators.

Syllabus

Using digital tools to support and inspire students

Welcome to the course
Examine and explore the changing world of work
The importance of providing good career guidance in your school
Reflect and discuss
End of Week 1

Using digital tools to support best practice

Welcome to Week 2
How is the transition to employment changing?
Best practice principles for managing transition
Reflect and discuss
End of Week 2

Using digital tools to explore the world of work

Welcome to Week 3
What are the key digital tools to help support delivery?
What encounters can you plan?
Reflect and discuss
End of Week 3

How can you use digital tools to give students experience of the workplace?

Welcome to Week 4
How can you support students to experience the world of work?
Planning and review
Evaluate, reflect and discuss
End of the course

Taught by

Rosalind Stuart