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Year 9 Careers: Destination My Future (Code: CARE09)
Learning Area Leader: Ms Menara
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
Description
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
· conduct an industry investigation mapping a job/career of choice from classroom to workplace
· prepare for entry to the workplace with developed jobseeker skills and documentation
· 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 online Career Immersions designed by the CEAV (Australian Centre for Career Education).
Students may engage in an Enterprise Incursion Day with an external provider.
Year 9 Commerce: Business – Life, Work and Money (Code: BUSI09)
Learning Area Leader: Ms Burley
You may be interested in this Elective if you enjoy: Understanding wealth creation, budgeting and the contemporary economic issues that affect Australian consumers and businesses or wish to pursue these subjects in the Senior Years: Business Management, Economics, Accounting
Major Focus – Consumer and Financial Issues
Description
This unit of work will enable students to understand consumer and financial issues in life. They will undertake tasks which develop their skills in money management, making informed financial decisions and protecting themselves as a consumer.
· Role playing
· Case studies based on contemporary issues
· Researching & evaluating financial products
· Managing an ASX Share market Portfolio
Assessment
· Introductory Economic concepts (test)
· How to Budget and Buy a car (case study)
· Consumer Protection (case study)
Year 9: Applied Learning – Social Enterprise (Code: ASEM09)
Learning Area Leaders: Ms Burley
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.
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 plan.
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.
Assessment
· Sustainable consumption report
· Product Pitch Presentation: Social Enterprise Business Plan Assessment Task
· Reflection
Please note that this subject may attract a small levy depending on the small business enterprise chosen.
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