Teacher Career Resources
GATSBY BENCHMARKS
Every young person needs good career guidance to make informed decisions about their future. Good career guidance is a necessity for social mobility: those young people without significant social capital or home support to draw upon have the most to gain from a strong career guidance system.
The eight Gatsby Benchmarks of Good Career Guidance are:
1. A stable careers programme
2. Learning from career and labour market information
3. Addressing the needs of each pupil
4. Linking curriculum learning to careers
5. Encounters with employers and employees
6. Experiences of workplaces
7. Encounters with further and higher education
8. Personal guidance
https://www.careersandenterprise.co.uk/careers-leaders/gatsby-benchmarks/
All teachers should link curriculum learning with careers.
The Gatsby Benchmarks state that by the age of 14, every pupil should have had the opportunity to learn how the different STEM subjects help people to gain entry to and be effective workers within a wide range of careers. It is very good practice to extend this to other subjects.
Subject careers information and ways to link your subject to careers can be found here: https://resources.careersandenterprise.co.uk/my-learning-my-future
Other ways to link curriculum learning to careers include:
Create a display board in the class room showing which careers relate to your subject
Display career poster relating to your subject
Show careers videos from industry leaders
Invite a STEM Ambassador into the classroom
Invite a speaker from a local business to talk about how the subject is used in their business
Organise a class trip to a local business
