
Unlocking Future Careers: Skills and Trends Exploration
Explore the evolving landscape of future careers by delving into the importance of skills like digital literacy, creativity, and critical thinking. Understand how career trends have transformed over time and predict future shifts in the job market. Engage students in identifying valuable skills and reflecting on the impact of AI on jobs. Customize student tasks, utilize the Know-how library tool on Unifrog, and track progress effectively to enhance learning outcomes.
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Teachers slide Key lesson information Know-how library Open the student side of your Unifrog account and click these links: Skills: what are they and why do they matter? Is AI a threat to our jobs? Students can also search for these guides using the Know-how library tool. Location Classroom with no student access to internet Recommended time 15 minutes By the end of the session, students should be able to: Identify a skill that s predicted to be valued by future employers Explain at least one example of how careers have changed over time Objectives Tracking progress on Unifrog Add as an Interaction Click Advanced view>Sort by school leaving year>[filter for specific students]>+interaction. 1. Reflect on statements about the future of careers 2. Compare then and now facts about careers and make a prediction about the future 3. Identify how they could develop a skill that s predicted to be highly valued by future employers Main student tasks Track on Charts Click Usage charts>Customise and filter> Know- how library: Favouriting over time . Advanced view>Sort by>Library profiles in Favourites Tracking individual students Keywords Careers, subjects, future, skills Benchmarks and standards Gatsby Benchmarks 2. Learning from career and labour market information Teacher preparation CDI Framework See the big picture PSHE Association Work and career Provide Lined paper, exercise books or laptops to work on. Unifrog sKnow-how library tool (Student side>Know-how library). ISCA C:A1:5; C:A2:3; C:A2:6 Familiarise yourself Skills Digital literacy, creativity, critical thinking, problem solving Students can use this for independent research after the lesson.
The future of careers (3 mins) Read the statements below and finish the sentences next to each one. 65% of students will be employed in careers that don t exist yet. This fact makes me feel Digital literacy is an important skill that will be valuable in lots of future careers. I think digital literacy will be important in my future career because Creativity, problem-solving, and critical thinking are core skills that will be needed across a range of future careers. I think these skills are going to be needed in lots of future careers because
Then and now (10 mins) Career trends have changed significantly in the past and they ll continue to change in the future! Get into pairs Read the then and now statements Discuss and write down the answer to the question Discuss and write down your prediction for the future
Then and now NOW THEN Globally, 13% of full-time employees work remotely and 28% have a hybrid job (spending some days at home and some days in the workplace). Before 2020, working remotely (from home) wasn t very common. Why do you think more people work remotely today compared to in the past?
Then and now NOW What is your prediction for the future and why? Globally, 13% of full-time employees work remotely and 28% have a hybrid job (spending some days at home and some days in the workplace). B C A More people will work remotely Less people will work remotely Things will stay about the same
Finding out more about careers and the future After this lesson, you might like to explore career profiles within the Careers library. Scroll down to Labour Market Information (LMI) and look at the Growth section. You can see how much different careers are predicted to grow in the future.
Preparing for the careers of the future (2 mins) Remember, it s predicted that 65%of you will be employed in a career that doesn t exist yet! Select one of the following skills that future employers might value. Note down an example of how you could develop this skill now. Digital literacy Creativity / innovation Critical thinking Problem solving Could you develop this skill at home? Could you develop this skill at school? Could you develop this skill through a hobby?