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Equal Opportunities
Designed as part of an Adult Employability Skills course. This session was designed to provide students with an awareness of discrimination, equality and equal opportunities to empower them with knowledge of their rights.
This resource would benefit from a powerpoint presentation which could be based on the information in the worksheet.
There are student activities throughout which will be suitable for an array of learners.
Employability Skills Taster
This lesson was delivered as part of a 1 hour tutorial designed to provide students with a taster of what employability skills, what are employers looking for and to encourage them to start considering what skills they already have. Features teacher prompts and student centred activities.
You will need a classroom with computers and internet access for this lesson.
Might work well at the start of the year for a taster of what skills students should expect to develop on whatever courses they are studying. Can be made subject specific.
Job Searching
Lesson Objectives:
To identify the common places to look for jobs.
To identify the less common places to look for jobs.
To be able to provide their own evidence for jobsearch trackers.
Aimed at job searchers/seekers over the age of 16.
Comes with student and teacher handout. Would benefit from a powerpoint presentation to aid in delivery.
Anti-Discriminatory Practice
Research activities and case study to prepare students for assignment on Anti-Discriminatory Practice.
Lesson Objectives:
Explain what is meant by Active Participation
Identifying needs for equality, diversity and equal rights within a care environment
Identify and evaluate the applicability of related laws and regulations
Recap learning
Employment Letter Writing
A handout/worksheet style session designed to remind students of standard and expectations of speculative letter writing/cover letter writing to support their CV when applying for jobs.
Will need a accompanying powerpoint to support delivery.
Cover and Speculative Letters
These worksheets provide students with detailed guidance about how to write effective speculative and cover letters in order to secure future employment.
There are activities incorporated into these worksheets designed to get students to consider their skills and attributes, supporting them in producing unique employment letters to impress prospective organisations.
Coping with Job Rejection
Whole Lesson covering the following via group and independent tasks:
To identify the common reasons why people might not be hired for the job.
To identify what people can do to counteract these reasons.
To identify the worst reasons why people are not hired for jobs.
Student documentation, a basic lesson plan and full PowerPoint have been included to provide you with everything you need to teach a lesson on job rejection.
Multi-Disciplinary Team Work
Students will explore the following in relation to health and social care via a range of activities:
To Explain what is meant by the term ‘multi-disciplinary team’ (MDT)
To Evaluate multi-disciplinary team working within the Health and Social Care context
To Analyse the influence of a health care professional and their professional bodies
Study Skills
A range of resources and lessons originally designed to go towards the Access to HE Study Skills unit. However, these could be ammended for other pre-university courses e.g. A-level.
Activities and guidance sheets include evaluation web pages, a library visit activity focusing on library research skills, time management reflection, CV writing, SWOT analysis production and some interview focused activities.
Career Planning
This tutorial was delivered over two one hour sessions to 16+ students and has links to up to date online resources.
It guides students through the importance of planning their career and enables them to produce an initial careers plan.
Lesson Objectives:
Be able to identify career paths in your sector
Be able to demonstrate your skills
Be able to create a development plan and set goals for your future
Conflict Management
An array of handouts and activities designed to make adult learners consider conflict management with an employability focus.
Learners will work with the Four-Step Process of Conflict Management.
Could be adapted for staff training.
E-Safety
Aimed at Year 7 students, an activity booklet which students can type into which covers a range of e-safety points which will complement any e-safety unit. The pack also includes students prompts, student instructions for producing their own PowerPoint Presentation on E-Safety, unit evaluations and other handy tips. The pack also looks at file management and saving work effectively.
An e-safety quiz PowerPoint has also been included to be used before students learn about e-safety to assess prior knowledge.
This may well be a useful first unit for year 7's.
Interviews
This is is a full lesson with activities which goes over in detail interview preparation, how to prepare for 'killer' questions and interview techniques to name but a few. The PowerPoint lesson resource has detailed notes in the notes field to help with delivery. There is a session plan included which can be adapted to suit your organisations paperwork.
Aims and Objectives:
To identify what an interview is for
To identify some common questions
To know how to deal with a “Killer Question”
To identify why people aren’t successful at interview.
Full information handouts for students as well as a student self evaluation activity on interview skills have been provided also.
Application Form Activity Workbook with Lesson Plan
A comprehensive 9 page workbook on Application Forms and resources which contains activities and information on the following :
1. The Employers Perspective-Student put themselves in the position of the employer and decide who they would want to interview based on application forms
2. Key things to remember when completing application forms-room for student notes
3. Student checklist
4. How employers look through application forms e.g. searching questions
5. Transferable Skills Information
6. Transferable Skills Review Activity
7. Student Reflection/Evaluation
Induction Week/Enrichment
Presentation crammed with icebreakers, team building activities, and activities to introduce students to concepts such as E&;D, employability, policies etc. Some activities designed to enable students to find their way around buildings etc. Therefore, you will need to design a simple clue sheet about your organisation.
Can be adapted to meet your organisations needs. This was taught over a full day but can be divided up across tutorial/form tutor time etc.
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Application Forms and Cover Letters
This bundle contains a detailed activity booklet on everything students need to know about letter writing, as well as handouts and a basic session plan which can be adapted to fit your organisation.
The second resource is a worksheet focused around speculative and cover employment letters which includes student activities.
Finally, there is also a comprehensive activity designed to inform students about where to look for jobs.
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Job Application Process
This bundle includes session plans, lesson resources and handouts to cover:
Interviews
Application Forms
Employment Letter writing
Presentation Skills Workshop.
A two part workshop style lesson based on presentation skills which was delivered across two days. It uses a health context, however, this can be adapted to any other subject area.
The main lesson objectives are:
To recap prior learning.
To identify at least 3 poor presentation skills (starter activity).
To reflect on areas of self-improvement in relation to presentation skills (self-audit).
To utilize a strategy for planning an effective presentation.
To deliver a professional presentation which delivers a clear message.
The powerpoint contains student prompts for a carousel activity which will introduce them to the AMPM technique, and guidance on how to incorporate data into their presentations.
All resources have been included, however you will also need two pieces of flipchart paper to enable students to mindmap 'Medium' and 'Message'. There is also minimal cutting needed for the presenter card sort which has also been included. The worksheet entitled 'audience' has also been included which completes the carousel activity.
English, Maths, Employability and Equality & Diversity skills have been embedded throughout.
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Health and Social Care
An excellent value bundle, saving 69%.
The bundle includes 9 topic areas and hours of activities for students in the following areas:
Anti-discriminatory Practice, Alternative and Complementary health Care, Communication, Community Care, End of Life Care, Ethics, Discriminatory Practices, Multi-Disciplinary Team Work.
Students will develop their ICT, Evluation, Research, Employability, English and Maths skills.