Learning Area Leaders: Ms Menara / Mr McMahon (Code: CARE09)
You may be interested in this Elective if you enjoy: Learning about real work connections between school and work, developing your job seeker skills and exploring future pathways and possibilities of choice
Major Focus – Work, Industry, Future Trends and Me
A short course in Career Education for the Middle Years
Career Education is life-long and life-wide. This innovative course aims to both inform and empower students to actively manage their own career pathways, by building employability skills and industry knowledge. Designed as a series of sequential studies, capacity is built to: locate, interpret and understand information about the Australian Labour Market and current/future trends; to conduct an industry investigation mapping a job/career of choice from classroom to workplace; to prepare for entry to the workplace with developed jobseeker skills and documentation and to complete training modules in readiness for future work experiences
Students will become more prepared to make informed, objective decisions about their own future pathways and be equipped to confidently apply for part time work with a ready resume, letter of application and feedback from the experience of a mock job interview.
Mock Job Interview
Production of a Personal Jobseeker E-Portfolio
Engagement with present and future labour market trends
Personal budgeting and taxation
Assessment
Media Research Report
Industry Case Study Analysis
Moving out of home Research Report
Role play: Mock Job Interviews
Students will also participate in a variety of Career Immersions designed by the CEAV (Australian Centre for Career Education).
Learning Area Leaders: Mr McMahon (Code: ASEB09)
You may be interested in this Elective if you enjoy: Hands on learning in a range of skills; learning basic Business and Accounting principles, designing and creating products, advertising and promoting point of sale, utilizing business skills for selling, group decision-making for social justice focus.
Major Focus – Creating Enterprises that benefit others in need
Description
Students research social justice issues in their community and focus on creating and running a small business enterprise that raises money for those identified in their findings. Students then prepare their own social enterprise. Their social enterprise plan forms their major assessment in this subject.
This elective involves fundamental enterprise core skills such as creativity, decision-making, leadership, communication, evaluating risk, influencing, negotiating, and budgeting. Students will gain the understanding of the hard work and planning necessary to make a social enterprise a reality and a success. This may be transferrable if they choose to run their own business one day.
This course aims to provide an opportunity for students to understand basic Business principles, to create a product, be that a food, a manufactured item or a service that can be sold at a pop-up social enterprise location on a given day. The money raised is gifted to a worthy organization or cause to be determined; students are required to liaise with the organization to present them with their donation. They also end with a social enterprise plan they can add to their portfolio of work.
Understand basic Business Principles and types of businesses including social enterprise
Research social justice issues in their local community
Design and create products or services that they are willing to sell
Pitch their ideas to their classmates for feedback
Advertise and promote the sale of the items and
Work in small groups to complete the various stages of the enterprise
Students then write a social enterprise report and reflect on the role they played in the social enterprise as well as their learnings from the experience.
This is an applied learning subject. As such, certain elements will be assessed according to competencies, or the ability to demonstrate certain skills.
* Please note that this subject may attract a small levy depending on the small business enterprise chosen*
Assessment
Sustainable consumption report
Product Pitch Presentation: Social Enterprise Business Plan Assessment Task
Reflection