FUTURE TALENTED Spring Term 2019 - Issue 2 | Page 38

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Barclays LifeSkills:
Careers quick-fire activity
Let's talk careers
Aim: To encourage students to have a confident, peer-to-peer careers conversation
and build an understanding of the skills they’ll need to realise their ambitions.
AGE RANGE: 11-16
Introduction
Use this worksheet to create an
origami ‘chatterbox’ and start a
careers conversation with your
students. This activity features
questions for a discussion-based
ice-breaker, links to content to
explore topics further and tips for
your careers strategy. Each question
relates to careers planning so can
you hear straight from the students
what matters to them.
Choosing your chatterbox
You can find a template for your
ch a t t erbox and a s s em bl y
instructions on the following pages.
Either use the version on p40 with
pre-made careers questions, or get
students creating their own with the
blank
template
which
can be found on the Barclays
LifeSkills website.
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 ick a word and spell it
P
out, opening and
closing for each letter
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 ick a number and
P
open and close that
number of times
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Allow five minutes for students
to play in pairs, then explore
each chatterbox question as a
group, using the following
discussion questions. Encourage
students to engage in the
conversation by asking further
discussion questions based on
the responses given. Some
extra learning activities could be
incorporated into this session,
or carried out as a follow-up.
Pick a number again
and answer the
question under
the flap
TOP TIP FOR
SUBJECT TEACHERS
in different areas
The chatterbox can be used
g the careers
of the curriculum to help brin
conversation into any lesson.
Twitter: post
Share your chatterbox on
lls_ed using
photos to @LifeSki
#ChatterboxChallenge
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Activity
TO PLAY:
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What will motivate you in your career
journey? Pay, people, passion?
Discussion question: What’s realistic and how can students strike a
balance? For example, finding a job that supports them financially, but
allows them to work in a field they’re passionate about. Prompt
students to think whether these things might change during different
life stages.
Further learning: Try ‘Money skills lesson one: Recognising your money
personality’ (barclayslifeskills.com/11-14/moneypersonality) to explore
students’ attitudes to money and spending, or the
‘Social action toolkit’ (barclayslifeskills.com/socialactiontoolkit) for
purpose-driven students.