Whole-school student careers advice resources

How to Prepare For Your Teacher Interview If you’re in Teacher’s College, just graduated or already teaching, it’s a great idea to get a trusted mentor and a group of 3-5 fellow classmates. Next, brainstorm the best teaching interview questions you can think of. Then, brainstorm again for the single best answer to the interview questions. For more information, visit www.TheBusyEducator.com

A comprehensive guide that provides lots of examples and tips for preparing for employment - including CVs, letters, application forms and preparing for that interview. A useful and insightful tool that is also excellent value for money for young people and adults who are preparing to make that step into employment. Including: How to complete an application form. A wide range of CV templates. Important and relevant IT skills needed for employability. Example interview questions, How to prepare for an interview. A variety of letters of application to use for different purposes. Job searching tips. Example personal profiles. Personal skills and qualities. A great resource to use for career’s advice and guidance or for employability workshops. Check out my other resources!

1 hour, fully resourced PSHE / Life Skills lesson which focuses on perseverance, procrastination, what these are, why we do them and how we can apply advice to improve our focus in study and the wider world . The lesson is most suitable for KS4 or KS5 (but has been left editable) and is filled with engaging, well differentiated and fun activities. It is useful for PSHE, Life Skills or Tutor Time. The pack includes a 1 hour / 90 min long PowerPoint, differentiated challenge activities, worksheets, clips and literacy focus tasks. These resources have been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow. You can find many more inexpensive and free PSHE, Citizenship and RE resources at my shop: MORE PSHE RESOURCES

During this lesson, students investigate the role of knowledge of our environment in jobs both now and in the future. Students begin by exploring the need for green jobs (why we need people to have green jobs) and what some current green jobs might be. Students are then asked to imagine some green jobs of the future, what the job descriptions of these jobs would be and how these jobs would help to protect, conserve and care for our environment. This lesson is designed to be taught outside. By spending time outdoors and connecting to nature, students are more likely to care for and conserve nature as adults.

Revision : Revision Board Game / Quiz USE WITH ANY SUBJECT! ADD YOUR OWN QUIZ QUESTIONS OR GET THE PUPILS TO MAKE UP THEIR OWN! This is a really fun revision board game to help quiz your students on their knowledge of the topic at hand! It can be played as a class or in individual groups. If this revision game is played in groups it is recommended that you print the board game slide out on A3 paper and laminate it for longevity. The revision board game resource comes with a selection of blank question cards for you to add your own questions on any topic. Complete with our Interactive Dice and our Random Group Generator Ideal for setting timed tasks during revision sessions. If you have a windows computer the counters on the windows board game resource can be clicked and moved when in presentation mode! If you use a Mac computer this slide can be used interactively out of presentation mode! Also included are two of our fun timers! If you review this resource we will give you another resource of the same value for FREE.<br /> <br /> We hope that you enjoy this resource! We would love your feedback, if you like what you see, please follow us: on Tes <a href=“https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/TeachElite”>TeachElite’s Shop</a> click the’Follow this Author button’ . We will keep you updated on any sales we throw or FREEBIES we upload. <br /> <br /> You can find us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TeachEliteRE<br /> and Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TeachElite/

This presentation focuses on Employability Skills from the ages of 14 - 18. It will cover the folllowing: What is confidence and how we build confidence. 6 steps to help plan your next career steps. What you have to offer and where to make improvements. How to use your strengths to capatailse on your opportunties. Why you are attractive to future employers. It is a 12 page slide show focuses on all these elements and allowing young people to start thinking about their qualities and how it links with the world of work.

1 hour, fully resourced PSHE / RSE lesson which focuses on the end of relationships, break-ups and heart-ache. The lesson is most suitable for KS4 (but has been left editable) and is filled with engaging, well differentiated and fun activities. It is useful for PSHE, RSE or Tutor Time. The pack includes a 1 hour long PowerPoint, differentiated challenge activities, worksheets, clips and literacy focus tasks. These resources have been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow. You can find many more inexpensive and free PSHE, Citizenship and RE resources at my shop: MORE PSHE RESOURCES

Being a Business Leader – Yes, Teachers Can be Great Entrepreneurs If you’re a teacher, this title might have taken you by surprise. Teachers and entrepreneurs? What kind of business can teachers do? Sell their lessons? Well, in fact, yes, and much much more. Actually, you can be a successful businessperson and very easily. As you have taught students, you have gained several skills that will help you open your own startup. For more information, please go to www.TheBusyEducator.com

Students gain an understanding of terminology assocaited with job skills by doing a crossword puzzle, followed by discussion points.

Students gain an understanding of terminology assocaited with job skills by doing a crossword puzzle, followed by discussion points.

A unit of 14 x 1 hour long, fully resourced life skills / PSHE lessons with a focus on independent living, this pack is particularly suited to KS4 and has been prepared to fit the PSHE Associations KS4 topic of ‘Living in the Wider World.’ This could easily be used for KS3 or ASDAN too and everything is editable, so you can always change it to suit your classes if you like. All the lessons have been highly rated and reviewed by Tes users and I have always used these as Head of PSHE / Life Skills too. Variety of different level tasks for MA,LA or Core - Differentiated to 3 levels - Designed to fit Ofsted criteria for’ Good’ or above - Meets all Ofsted ‘Safe Students’ requirements. Many more inexpensive or free resources can be found at my store: EC RESOURCES

A crash course in interview preparation - ideal for all secondary (and primary!) students. Lesson breaks down into 4 activities: A tutorial video and note making Paired work answering example Qs Class discussion of the best answers. Role play in pairs. Taken from the Tutor Activities of Wolsey Academy. Have you check them out yet? Have you tried one of Wolsey Academy’s Learning World’s yet? Our Learning Worlds make for engaging homework and class tasks. Pupils take on the role of a protagonist and adventure through a series of levels and maps. As they do so computer controlled characters pass on course specific information and different scenarios and ‘Wolsey College’ in-game tests build their confidence and skills. Told in a format pupils love they complete a SOW specific task book at home. They then come to class ready to instantly delve deeper into the skills and analysis they need to become effective learners – and ace their exams. Make the most of your class time and try them for free at www.wolseyacademy.com

Macaque monkeys are rewarded to use a computer touch screen. They have to learn about the images that give the reward. Dr Mitchell is interested in the role of the mediodorsal thalamus in learning. She wonders whether one day we will be able to improve our own ability to learn. You can see a 360 online lab tour of the Oxford University primate facility here: http://www.labanimaltour.org/oxford See more films about the use of animals in medical and scientific research here: http://www.understandinganimalresearch.org.uk/resources/video-library/ These clips can be used for careers teaching as well as well as Biology as they feature scientists and technicians at work…

The laboratory monkeys in this film (macaques) are trained to interact with humans so that they can take part in research experiments. The aim is for them to remain calm during their work. Training takes time and starts in the MRC macaque breeding centre before continuing in the Oxford University research facility you see here. Learn more at http://www.labanimaltour.org/oxford See more films about the use of animals in medical and scientific research here: http://www.understandinganimalresearch.org.uk/resources/video-library/ These clips can be used for careers teaching as well as well as Biology as they show scientists and technicians at work. The use of animals in research is also a topic frequently discussed in ethical debates.

A sub-titled clip showing how laboratory rats are kept and cared for. See more films about the use of animals in medical and scientific research here: http://www.understandinganimalresearch.org.uk/resources/video-library/ These clips can be used for careers teaching as well as well as in Science/Biology as they show scientists and technicians at work.

In nature monkeys spend large amounts of time foraging for food. These monkeys are given their food in various ways, including as frozen ice-seed lollies, to occupy them and enrich their lives. See more about the Oxford Primate facility in a 360 online tour here http://www.labanimaltour.org See more films about the use of animals in medical and scientific research here: http://www.understandinganimalresearch.org.uk/resources/video-library/ These clips can be used for careers teaching as they show animal technologists and scientists in their work place.

Zebrafish are the third most used vertebrate in research. This sub-titled film shows some of the aspects of laboratory zebrafish production and maintenance. Zebrafish embryos, unlike mouse embryos for example, develop outside the mother’s body and are transparent throughout the first few days of life. This provides unparallelled opportunities for researchers to scrutinise the fine details of embryonic vertebrate development without first having to resort to invasive procedures or killing the mother. This advantage is enhanced by the fact zebrafish can produce 200-300 fertilised eggs every week.

Dr Sanja Dogramadzi describes research into improving robot-assisted surgery on humans by giving the surgeons operating the robots a ‘sense of touch’ through the robots ‘haptic’ sensors. This research will require the use of animals before it is ready to be used in people. See more about animal research in Bristol using our 360 online tour here: http://www.labanimaltour.org/bristol See more films about the use of animals in medical and scientific research here: http://www.understandinganimalresearch.org.uk/resources/video-library/ These clips can be used for careers teaching as well as well as Biology.

Professor Andrew Parker describes how we see in 3D, what happens in amblyopia or ‘lazy eye’ and how computer game like exercises might ‘re-wire’ the brain connections behind 3D perception. See the monkeys used in the research in a 360 interactive online tour of the Oxford primate labs here: http://www.labanimaltour.org/oxford

The blood brain barrier is essential for good health, but prevents many medicines reaching the brain. How do you get past this biological barrier? This is one of a set of films about the work of Bristol University that can be seen in an online 360 tour here: http://labanimaltour.org/bristol See more films about the use of animals in medical and scientific research here: http://www.understandinganimalresearch.org.uk/resources/video-library/ These clips can be used for careers teaching as well as well as Biology.

A senior technician at the Pirbright Institute explains how pigs are looked after and trained while being used to test a new vaccine against African Swine Fever virus - a deadly disease of pigs and wild boar that has just arrived on the eastern edge of Europe. This is one of a set of films about the work of Pirbright that can be seen in an online 360 tour here: http://labanimaltour.org/pirbright See more films about the use of animals in medical and scientific research here: http://www.understandinganimalresearch.org.uk/resources/video-library/ These clips can be used for careers teaching as well as well as Biology.

By 2025 it is estimated that over 5 million jobs in the UK will be lost to automation and robots. This means that the job market that current school students will be joining will be vastly different from the one we know today. The skills required to compete and thrive in this world will be those that robots and computers find difficult to copy. Soft-skills, like creativity, communication and working with others will become vital for job seekers of the future. Interactive resource in prezi. Contains video and infographic content. Suitable for individuals, groups and parents. Aimed at KS3, KS4 and KS5

Students gain an understanding of terminology associated with bank accounts, earning money and starting work by doing crossword puzzles, followed by discussion points on the puzzle words.

Being a teacher is amazing. You get to learn so many skills and get your voice heard. And that’s not all – if you ever want to change your industry, you can always get priority over the other applicants because of the skills you have acquired over the years as a teacher. It’s true, teachers have it all. Let’s take a look at the benefits of being a teacher.

All the classroom tools you need to manage your classes! From amendable AFL and Dirt Time materials to target setting, behaviour management and rewards, seating plans and laying down your classroom rules. All these classroom tools can be used in any subject and many are particularly useful for Tutor Time too. Loads more classroom tools and whole school materials at my shop: EC RESOURCES

13x fully resourced, highly-rated PSHE lesson packs and units suitable for Year 11. From Revision and Study Skills, Living Independently, Finance and Careers to Body Image, The Dark Web and University Applications - this really is a comprehensive KS4 PSHE lesson bundle. All 13 lessons are complete with at least one hour-long powerpoint, accompanying differentiated worksheets, clip links with questions, plenaries, clear LOs and starters. All are well differentiated to three levels throughout to enable clear evidence of progress for all students. These resources have been highly-rated individually by TES users, follow the same consistent format and are easy to follow. There is zero extra work required, and the whole bundle follows PSHE Association topic recommendations and Ofsted latest SRE/ PSHE Association guidance for Year 11. I use all of these myself as a Head of PSHE and I really hope you find them excellent value. I’ve put literally months of time into this to make these lessons top quality for my own school team. Please leave me a review and I’ll send you any other resource of your choice for free. Many more inexpensive and free resources at my shop - where you can find my bundles for other year groups: EC_Resources Leave me a review and pick any other resource for free :) You can also find us on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ecteachresources/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ec_publishing and our website psheresources.com 20s5

An hour long, fully resourced PSHE lesson which is an introduction to independent living. The lesson focuses on how we need to be financially capable and self-sufficient as well as law abiding before we can move away to Uni to study, or in with friends or on our own to start work. The lesson is filled with engaging, well differentiated and fun activities and is useful for PSHE , ASDAN or Life Skills. The pack includes an hour long PowerPoint, differentiated challenge activities, worksheets, clips and literacy focus tasks. These resources have been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow. All our resources are editable (so easy to adapt for your classes). This lesson could be used for PSHE, Citizenship or Life Skills. You can find many more inexpensive and free PSHE, Citizenship and RE resources at my shop: MORE PSHE RESOURCES

Students gain an understanding of terminology associated with starting work by doing a crossword puzzle, followed by discussion points.

GCSE Technology Careers Posters Subject specific careers and GCSE course information. A3 posters for four different Technology subjects - Design Technology, Creative iMedia, Food Preparation & Nutrition and Computer Science. -Print A3 and use for GCSE options as information for parents and students. For more detail about this resource, visit - www.educationbycreation.com

It’s a challenging job market and applying for community college jobs can be a good idea. Here are some points you need to keep in mind when you apply to a two-year college.

This workbook has been designed as an interactive, thought provoking and interesting guide to life for those disenfranchised students that need that extra motivation and support in school and designed by a school SENCO. It has 14 pages packed full of questions, activities, puzzles and tasks, all designed to make students question, what am I doing this for? It can be used with students who have been removed from mainstream lessons/placed in an isolation room, students that have arrived on a placement from another school, or even just to help students look at what they want their future to be! It has been highly successful in it’s current setting, and works best when a student is working individually, or as part of a group with teacher facilitation, it gives an opportunity for you to learn more about a student, what motivates them, makes them tick, and what you can do to support them where perhaps others are currently failing. Designed as a running document with fun rest breaks in between, student feedback has been overwhelmingly positive! Especially the equipment Maze!

Interview with Professor Matthew Fisher (Imperial College, London) about his research on the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis that causes the often lethal disease, Chytridiomycosis in amphibians. Images of dead frogs and video of living frogs and tadpoles. Download a transcript of the interview here: http://www.understandinganimalresearch.org.uk/files/5914/6348/0796/Matthew_Fisher_interview_Imperial_Fungi_Frogs.pdf UAR interviewed Matthew Fisher of Imperial University London about his work on the fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) currently devastating amphibian species around the world. Matthew and his team have been the first to successfully treat infected frogs and their tadpoles. They ‘cured’ individual midwife toads (Alytes obstetricans) with a dilute solution of a fungicide Itraconazole and after cleaning their habitat in the mountains of Majorca were able to re-introduce the species where they had previously become locally extinct. This is the first time amphibians have been successfully re-introduced following an outbreak of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis. While this method is not an answer to removing the fungus from the wider environment it does make it possible for people to remove threatened species into captivity and maintain them in ‘arks’ until their descendants can be returned to the wild. Read more here: http://www.britannica.com/topic/Bd-The-Amphibian-Plague-2037002 Download a transcript of the interview here: http://www.understandinganimalresearch.org.uk/files/5914/6348/0796/Matthew_Fisher_interview_Imperial_Fungi_Frogs.pdf The killer fungus came from Korea: http://www.understandinganimalresearch.org.uk/news/research-medical-benefits/killer-fungus-comes-from-korea/ References Bosch J, Sanchez-Tomé E, Fernández-Loras A, Oliver JA, Fisher MC, Garner TWJ. (2015) Successful elimination of a lethal wildlife infectious disease in nature. Biology Letters. DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2015.0874 Fisher MC, Henk DA, Briggs C, Brownstein JS, Madoff L, McCraw SL, Gurr S. (2012) Emerging fungal threats to animal, plant and ecosystem health. Nature 484: 186-194

Ferrets catch the flu and exhibit similar symptoms to us so they are used in research to make flu vaccines and to better understand why this disease is so good at making us ill. Here Professor Wendy Barclay of Imperial College London explains their role in her research. The ferrets we see are used to train scientists in how to handle the animals. We could not film the research ferrets because we might have given them a cold! Read more about Ferrets and Flu on our sister website, Animal Research Information: the general role of ferrets in research is discussed here: http://www.animalresearch.info/en/designing-research/research-animals/ferret/ and more information about the influenza virus can be read here: http://www.animalresearch.info/en/medical-advances/diseases-research/influenza/ while the latest advances are recorded here: http://www.animalresearch.info/en/medical-advances/research-the-news/influenza/.

Dr Daan van der Veen is a lecturer in sleep and chronobiology at Surrey University. He has worked with voles (Microtus arvalis) because these animals naturally live in a fast, ultradian rhythm. They feed and socialise for a few hours and then sleep for an hour or so before repeating this cycle three or four times a day. The animals are kept in deep litter so they can burrow, and provided with an exercise wheel in each cage to allow them to use up their restless energy. In chronobiology, an ultradian rhythm is a recurrent period or cycle repeated throughout a 24-hour day. In contrast, circadian rhythms complete one cycle daily, while infradian rhythms such as the human menstrual cycle have periods longer than a day. The Oxford English Dictionary’s definition of Ultradian specifies that it refers to cycles with a period shorter than a day but longer than an hour. The descriptive term ultradian is used in sleep research in reference to the 90–120 minute cycling of the sleep stages during human sleep. Some references to learn more: http://www.pnas.org/content/103/9/3393.abstract http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.3109/07420528.2011.591953 http://www.fasebj.org/content/31/2/743.long And more generally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultradian_rhythm If, on the other hand, you would like to know about circadian rhythms, there is a new Body Clock display at the Science Museum.

50,000 mice all need their cages cleaned, a job for a robot. This clip was filmed in MRC Harwell as part of a 360 laboratory tour. The clip can be seen in context here.

Taking blood from a model rat is one way for animal technologists to train before taking blood from a live animal.

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Laboratory mice are moved into a clean cage every week or so in the MRC Harwell institute. This clip was filmed at MRC Harwell as part of a 360 laboratory tour. You can see it in it’s original context here: http://labanimaltour.org/tours/harwell/#node4

At the MRC Harwell Institute mice can be genetically modified. One method is to inject RNA into the early stage embryo. Here we see the process through the microscope while the technician explains what she is doing. You can see a 360 online tour where this was filmed here: http://labanimaltour.org/

Teaching is the dream profession of many young graduates. It gives them a chance to be heard and share their knowledge with others. It’s a great profession for those who have leadership skills and want to be social. If you have applied to a number of teaching positions and still haven’t become successful, here’s a checklist for you: Consider moving Instead of limiting your job search to your neighboring schools and colleges, send the applications to big schools even if they are far away. If you get selected, you can always move to another city. After all, a job at a premiere college or school will be a great move for your career. Get your paperwork ready Make sure you have your resume, cover letter, and other documents ready. Proofread your resume several times to make sure it does not have any mistakes. Be available on social networks Your presence on social media networks like LinkedIn can help you build connections. If you are connected to administrators from colleges and schools, there are chances that they will prefer you over others when it’s time to hire. Attend job fairs Attend the job fairs held at your alma mater along with those at the neighboring colleges and universities. You have better chances of being selected at your alma mater than the others. Prepare for the interview There are some questions that are asked frequently. For example, “what can you bring to this school” and “how do you plan to influence the students”. Come up with witty and professional answers for these questions. Share vignettes Be open during the interview and share some positive vignettes about your previous experiences. These could include student achievements, classroom management, and unique teaching methodologies that you follow. Follow-up Sometimes the college or school might take extra time in hiring. If you follow up using emails, there are higher chances of you being hired. When you email them, state again that you would love to work with them. Stay positive It’s a tough economy but teaching positions keep opening every now and then in various schools and colleges. Don’t give up hope and you’ll soon bag a great teaching job. That’s it for now Busy Educator. Until next time, Talk to each other, support each other, take care of each other.’ Marjan