Demonstrating Role Models: Work Experience

Work experience is such a good way for students to experience what a career is like.

They spend two weeks with a company, and if they get a really good placement, then they can have better chances of reaching their career goals in the future.

However, not everyone can get a good work experience placement. And what if the child gets a good placement, but then realises that they wouldn’t like to pursue it?

Our idea is to have a sample work experience placement, all under one roof for a period of 3 days so that students can walk in and out of a variety of different career types and actually see, hear and feel what that job entails.

A demonstration is always  more powerful than a theory. If you are a teacher, you will definitely understand that children learn more when shown what something is, than when they are simply told and explained what something  is.

The best formula is to explain, then demonstrate and then get the student to do it themselves.

We do this in the classroom, why not do with careers education as well?