Australian Blueprint of Career Development competencies CAREER COMPETENCIES PHASE II PERFORMANCE INDICATOR AREA A: PERSONAL MANAGEMENT 1. Build and maintain a 1.2 Build a positive 1.2.2 Discover how behaviours positive self-image and understand its and attitudes affect school, work influence on life and work and family situations 1.2.7 Describe your self-image 2. Interact positively 2.2 Develop abilities for 2.2.2 Explore the concepts of and effectively with building positive dependability and honesty others relationships in life (II) towards others Teachers’ notes: Personal attributes Outcome Identify and discuss perceptions of self, including personal attributes. Rationale Students perceive themselves to have certain attributes and quite often do not think of these as relating to jobs. They need to become aware of how they can build on their attributes to gain work. Task description Suggested Years 9 and 10, but could be used with more guidance at Years 7 and 8. 1. Teacher distributes worksheets and explains what the activity is about and emphasises that it is to be completed in an honest manner. Everyone needs to use the same rating scale so that, for example, excellent means the same to everyone. 2. Teacher explains the difference between skills and personal attributes. 3. Students analyse the sheets in terms of the following: a. attributes received the same rating? b. Which attributes do you think you are good at? c. Which attributes were rated as ‘Excellent’? d. Which attributes were rated as Improvement’? Do you want to improve these attributes? ‘Needs If what steps are you going to take to improve them? ‘yes’, e. Identify the types of job opportunities where your good attributes can be used. 3. Students place the completed sheets into their portfolios.
Australian Blueprint of Career Development competencies CAREER COMPETENCIES PHASE II PERFORMANCE INDICATOR AREA A: PERSONAL MANAGEMENT 1. Build and maintain a positive self-image 1.2 Build a positive and understand its influence on life and work 1.2.2 Discover how behaviours and attitudes affect school, work and family situations 1.2.7 Describe your self-image 2. Interact positively and effectively with others 2.2 Develop abilities for building positive relationships in life (II) 2.2.2 Explore the concepts of dependability and honesty towards others Teachers’ notes: Personal attributes Outcome Identify and discuss perceptions of self, including personal attributes. Rationale Students perceive themselves to have certain attributes and quite often do not think of these as relating to jobs. They need to become aware of how they can build on their attributes to gain work. Task description Suggested Years 9 and 10, but could be used with more guidance at Years 7 and 8. 1. Teacher distributes worksheets and explains what the activity is about and emphasises that it is to be completed in an honest manner. Everyone needs to use the same rating scale so that, for example, excellent means the same to everyone. 2. Teacher explains the difference between skills and personal attributes. 3. Students analyse the sheets in terms of the following: a. attributes received the same rating? b. Which attributes do you think you are good at? c. Which attributes were rated as ‘Excellent’? d. Which attributes were rated as ‘Needs Improvement’? Do you want to improve these attributes? If ‘yes’, what steps are you going to take to improve them? e. Identify the types of job opportunities where your good attributes can be used. 3. Students place the completed sheets into their portfolios.
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