Fast Track to Success
£freeAbout this course
This workshop is designed to help your students clarify their aspirations for both academic and career progression. Your students will be introduced to the wide range of qualifications and pathways available to them and will discuss the perceived benefits and drawbacks of each. Your students will create a personal progression route-map focused on a specific career pathway. This workshop will inform and excite your students about the choices they can make and help them to make informed decisions about the future.
Rationale
Research conducted by the UK funding bodies in recent years has found that many students do not know enough about higher education to make informed decisions and lack the support they would need to do this (CFE research 2014). Information, advice and guidance (IAG) is an umbrella term for support that helps students make informed choices when it comes to progression within education or making the move into the professional arena . The existing evidence suggests that light-touch IAG can have a positive impact on students’ aspirations/attitudes, and on HE participation (TASO). This workshop is designed to provide information and guidance, helping students to clarify their aspirations for both academic and career progression. Your students will be introduced to the wide range of qualifications and pathways available to them and will discuss the perceived benefits of each. Your students will create a personal route-map focused on a specific education and career pathway. This workshop will inform and excite your students about the choices they can make and help them to make informed decisions about the future.
“The case for guidance having a role in reducing social exclusion is not difficult to make”.
Watts (1999)
Objectives
- To help students gain clarity on their aspirations and ambitions.
- To inform students of the pathways available after GCSEs.
- To help students make informed decisions.
- To help students identify potential obstacles in their progression.
- To enable students to realise more of their inherent potential.
Skills taught and their Benefits
Goal setting is an essential component for growth and development in our students for several reasons: It personalises the learning process based on their needs. It creates intention and motivation that empowers students. It establishes accountability to shift responsibility to students.
Making informed decisions. In an age of abundant information, students must be equipped and prepared to evaluate options, consider consequences, and weigh different factors.
Action planning is an approach which helps to generate and then focus ideas and tasks and then decide what steps you need to take to achieve your goals.
Research skills allow students to find information and use it effectively. Research includes creating a strategy to gather facts and reach conclusions so that students can answer their questions
Identifying barriers is important for students to recognise potential setbacks and obstacles and then make plans to overcome or manage them. It’s also useful for students to understand that everyone in the room is on a different journey that they don’t have to do this all alone.
Outcomes
By the end of the workshop, your students will have:
- Understood pathways available to them after taking their GCSEs.
- Clarified their aspirations and ambitions.
- Set realistic and achievable goals.
- Created an action plan.
- Identified potential obstacles to their progression.
- Been inspired and motivated to reach their full potential.
“80% of students agreed that they were better able to make decisions about their future”.
Survey from 4101 students taking part in MADE Workshops, conducted by NSSW, part of the National Collaborative Outreach Programme.
Statutory Guidance, Curriculum and Frameworks
GATSBY Benchmarks: 3,5,8
NERUPI Framework: Choose, Become, Understand
PSHE Core: Living in the wider world
- Students taking part in Fast Track to Success can take part in all other workshops
- Recommended add-ons: All Power Hours, Parent Workshop, Staff 1hr CPD
Note to parents
The strategies within this course are designed to help your child think positively about the future and to clarify their aspirations in terms of academic and career progression.
It is important to note that each child has individual strengths and preferences and will therefore benefit from a personalised approach to planning. There is no ‘one-size-fits-all’ pathway. When making choices about their subjects or college of choice, some students feel under pressure to follow their friends even though it might not be a course or location that’s suitable for them. We encourage you to talk to your child and discuss their motivation for making certain choices and guide them in making the most informed and beneficial decisions.
We wish you all the best in supporting your child with achieving their full potential. The act of you reading this text, infers that you have your child’s best interests in mind. I’m sure they will benefit massively from your help, support and encouragement.
Best,
Sander de Groot
Head of Training
Syllabus
Week 1 0/5
Useful Expressions
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Week 2 0/4
Diplomatic Language
Tools for Professional Approach - Step 2: It’s not just about learning, it’s about having the confidence to use English in real life and upgrade your business communication skills.
Members
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