Teachers

Benchmark 4 - Linking Curriculum Learning to Careers

All teachers should link curriculum learning with careers. For example, STEM subject teachers should highlight the relevance of STEM subjects for a wide range of career pathways.

• By the age of 14, every student should have had the opportunity to learn how the different STEM subjects help people to gain entry to, and be more effective workers within, a wide range of careers.

Young adults who recall four or more encounters with employers while at school are five times less likely to be NEET and earn, on average, 18% more than peers who recall no such activities" 

Dr Anthony Mann, Director of Research and Policy, Education and Employers Taskforce.

Here are a few simple things you can do to promote careers in your classroom:

• Display your card, discuss your journey
• Highlight the key skills they are developing in your subject and how they are relevant to careers in related sectors
• Invite connections from job roles or sectors that are connected to your subject to come in and speak to your students
• Create careers displays in your departments
• Include pathways students can take at age 16 and age 18
• Display websites and promote events such as open days, taster sessions, work experience opportunities etc.

The Careers and Enterprise Hub have developed a range of subject inspiration guides, lesson slides and homework sheets to help you

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