Careers in STEM: Apprenticeships as part of national apprenticeships ‎week Event

Time:: 09:30 - 15:15
Date:: 13 March 2015
Venue:: Highbury College Portsmouth PO6 2SA

For more information regarding this event, please telephone Mathematics and Science Learning Centre on 023 8059 8810 or email mslc@soton.ac.uk .

Event details

STEM subjects offer a wide range of career opportunities - but how do you promote ‎these and motivate students? Using case studies and resources, this course will help ‎develop your understanding and support you in signposting career options and ‎motivate students to pursue STEM subjects or careers.‎ The event is suitable for teachers and teaching assistants, headteachers or other ‎senior leaders, careers advisers, parents or governors and others with an interest in ‎promoting careers in schools. Please pass to colleagues who may be interested in ‎booking a place.‎

Working with Highbury College

Careers-related learning: statutory guidance for schools in England Section 29 of the Education Act 2011 places schools under a duty to secure access to independent careers guidance for their students in school years 9 to 11.

School leaders bear the main responsibility for ensuring that careers guidance is provided in schools and a recent report from Ofsted reported on progress (Going in the right direction? Careers guidance in schools from September 2012 http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/resources/going-right-direction-careers-guidance-schools-september-2012 ). However, teachers of STEM subjects are key influencers in conveying the excitement and potential value of STEM subjects in future careers, be they in STEM careers or other related areas, and so need an awareness of the diversity of routes and how to communicate this to students. This event will enable educators to explore information and guidance about apprenticeships and network with local employers, providers and apprentices to explore communication strategies.

Time	Session	Objectives
9:30	Arrival and refreshments (tea/coffee/pastries)
9:50	Welcome from Highbury College and MSLC
10-10:30	Unconscious bias: how this affects our advice and guidance to students and what we can do about it Prof Averil MacDonald	To raise awareness of role of teachers as key influencers and responsibility for careers information
10:30-11:00	Overview of Apprenticeship Pathways Jackie Page and representatives from local business	To learn about the current routes into employment via apprenticeships, benefits and opportunities
11-11:30	3 x 10-minute talks from current apprentices Background, choices and future intentions	Examples of students following Apprenticeship pathway – real-life experiences
11:30-11:50	Tea/coffee/networking
11:50-12:50	Exhibition in the main hall STEMNET, local employers, Highbury College, HEIs, and others	Opportunity to explore wide range of employers, HEIs, etc. and how they manage apprenticeship schemes
12:50-1:30	Lunch
1:30-3:00	Tours of Highbury College facilities	Opportunities to explore the facilities at Highbury College and how they are used
3-3:15	Plenary and finish	Evaluation – short voting pad survey to assess attitude change/learning from the day and future intentions

Outcomes

You will be able to:

improve your understanding of the range of career options open to students of STEM subjects
explore a range of resources which can support teachers in highlighting STEM career pathways
develop ways of signposting career options in your teaching

To book a place on this course, please go to https://www.sciencelearningcentres.org.uk/consortia/sw/cpd/43b52a5b-8528-4ad7-aadd-c1d7b2e9d6b2/careers-in-stem-apprenticeships-as-part-of-national-apprenticeships-week/ or contact the Mathematics and Science Learning Centre at the details below.

Funding

FREE to attend (£200 supply cover for first 25 bookings by teachers - kindly sponsored by IBM)