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Here you will find a range of career development programs, PowerPoint presentations and tools other users of the Blueprint have developed and generously shared with others.

Tools include career development plans, mapping tools used to identify areas of strength and weakness in pre-existing programs, needs assessment tools, a performance review template and product coding tools.

A career and lifelong learning skills program for primary schools | Developing career management competencies in Victorian High Schools | PowerPoint Presentations | Other tools

A Career and Life-long Learning Skills Program for Primary Schools

This career development program takes a whole of school approach to the promotion of career development in schools:

The Primary School Life-Long Learning Skills program includes an introduction to the program and outlines the four 'curriculum areas' the program covers that you can download here (Introduction.pdf)

• Feeling Positive

  These activities are designed to facilitate self awareness and and an understanding of self concept. Just click on the heading to download the activity:

  • Uncovering feelings
    How do you discriminate between different intensities of feelings?
  • Choosing happiness
    What choices are available to us when our emotions are involved?
  • Identifying feelings
    How do our feelings affect our friendships and relationships with others?
  • Personal self-management
    What do we need to know about ourselves?
  • Understanding assumptions
    How can assumptions affect our feelings and behaviour?
  • What did you say?
    How do I get along with others?

• Acting Sensibly

  These activities are about managing emotions effectively and maintaining self-control:

  • Overcoming obstacles to study
    How can I overcome obstacles when trying to complete daily chores and responsibilities?
  • Understanding choice making
    Developing awareness of the choice making we do every day
  • Setting priorities: how important is school?
    How important is school to me?

• Give Yourself

  Five activities about empathy and handling relationships:

  • My home team advantage
    How can I make and maintain enjoyable, healthy and safe relationships?
  • Developing self acceptance/examining self-measurement
    How can self-talk and self worth impact upon how I feel about myself?
  • Resolving conflict
    How can I resolve conflict successfully?
  • Community involvement plans
    Developing an awareness and understanding of social and civic responsibility
  • Reflecting on community involvement
    What did I learn about myself through community involvement?

• Thinking Wisely

  Activities designed to facilitate skill building and organisational skills:

  • Set goals and plan for action
    What am I like now, at the beginning of my new school year?
  • Primary portfolio development
    The what, why and how of career portfolios
  • Decision-making wheel
    How can I be a successful decision maker?
  • Learning styles
    What is my learning style?

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Developing Career Management Competencies in Victorian High Schools

This resource package was developed as part of a national project grant to trial elements of the Australian Blueprint for Career Development. The package provides a career development program that can assist in the delivery of career education for Year 9 and 10 students in Victorian secondary schools.

An overview of the program is available to download here (VELS Activities Overview).

Each activity has been mapped against the Blueprint framework and two key initiatives of the Victorian State Government, the Victorian Essential Learning Standards and the Managed Individual Pathways (MIPs) Best Practice Framework.

If you wish to use any of these materials, please be aware that they may need to be modified to reflect your client/student's context. As the overview of this package states:

The student's activity sheets and teachers' notes are a guide only to delivering the career competencies. It is anticipated that teachers may wish to amend, add to and change these activities according to their circumstances.

• Area A: Personal Management

  • Assisting students to identify their strengths and weaknesses
  • Using positive self-talk to develop self-confidence
  • Identifying factors that influence career decisions
  • Identifying and presenting positive perceptions of self
  • Identifying and discussing perceptions of self
  • Identifying personal skills

• Area B: Learning and Work Exploration

  • Identifying and investigating areas of interest for possible work placement
  • Reporting on experiences in the workplace and writing letters of thanks
  • What is work?
  • The impact of technological change on employment and our way of life
  • Identifying useful businesses, industries and resources in the local community
  • Identifying current generic skills that are transferable to the workplace
  • Investigating options that can lead to career pathways in senior school

• Area C: Career Building

  • Preparing a resume
  • Preparing a personal portfolio
  • Investigating and comparing changes that have occurred in the nature of work
  • Identifying the effect of changing work patterns on leisure time
  • Preparing for an interview
  • Participating in an interview
  • Investigating how work patterns develop in unexpected directions
  • Identifying changes in the world of work, including entrepreneurial skills
  • Producing a career action plan

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Examples of PowerPoint Presentations

Other users of the Blueprint have also developed PowerPoint presentations, you may find these useful when developing your own:

• A sample PowerPoint presentation for year 10 students (Download)
• This presentation was created by a resource developer and describes how trial funding was used to map resources (Download)
• This presentation was created by a career practitioner in a high school and describes the range of career development activities that are used with young people ( Download >)

There are no notes attached to these presentations, so you will need to develop these yourself.

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Other Tools

The following sample tools will hopefully provide you with some inspiration and ideas on how you might adapt or create your own tools when implementing the Blueprint in your particular workplace or school setting.

Sample Career Planning Tools

These examples of Career Planning Tools illustrate the different approaches that can be taken when working with diverse client groups:

• The Moving On Career Development Plan was developed for adults with acquired brain injury (ABI) (Download)
• My Individual Pathway Plan was developed for high school students (Download)

A Career Portfolio

This career portfolio was designed for high school students and is structured around the Blueprint competency framework (Download)

Sample Mapping Tools

These mapping tools illustrate how previous Blueprint users have gone about identifying areas of strength and weakness in pre-existing programs by mapping them against the Blueprint competencies:

• Mapping an alternative learning options program (Download)
• Mapping a Job Ready program (Download)
• Mapping a career development program designed for Indigenous high school students (Download)
• Mapping Victorian Essential Learning Standards (VELS) and Managed Individual Pathways (Download)

The following mapping tools are blank, you may be able to use these as the basis of your own mapping exercise:

• This tool can be used by teachers in specific learning areas to identify opportunities to develop career management competencies (Download)
• This mapping tool can be used to map current practice within your school/organisation against the Blueprint competencies (Download)

Sample Needs Assessment Tools

Needs assessments have been carried out with several client groups, here are three:

• Student needs assessment (Download)
• Parent needs assessment (Download)
• Adult needs assessment (Download)

Performance Review Template

The following template was developed as part of a performance review process within a government department and was used for assessing an employee's performance against a planned Blueprint roadmap. (Download)

Sample Product Coding Tools

The following examples of product coding tools were used to code career development resources against the Blueprint competency framework:

• Guiding Circles Book 1- product coding matrix (Download)
• Chase your dreams (teaching resource) - product coding matrix (Download)

This is a joint initiative of the Federal, State and Territory Governments.

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