Victorian Careers Curriculum
Framework
Leela Darvall
Manager
Careers & Transition
Youth Transitions
Division, DEECD
VISTA Conference
23 May 2011
Victorian Careers
Curriculum Framework
What will be covered
• Context for Career Development
– Targets
• Policy Reform
– Research
• Initiatives
– Victorian CCF
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Curriculum Framework
Context
• Students who do not complete Year 12 or its equivalent
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are more likely to become unemployed
are more likely to stay unemployed
have lower earnings, and
over the course of their lives accumulate less wealth
• Global financial crisis
– Impact on young people; rise in youth unemployment
– Increase in the proportion of 15-19 year-olds out of work
• Victorian Education Performance
– Need for improvement
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Raising the bar –
targets for skilled a workforce
By 2015
– 92.6% of Victorian 20-24 year olds achieving Year 12 or
equivalent (e.g. Cert II)
By 2020
– 90% of Australian 20-24 year olds achieving Year 12 or
equivalent (e.g. Cert III)
– Halving the gap in Year 12 attainment for young Koorie people
– 20% of higher education enrolments from low-SES
communities
By 2025
– 40% of Australian 25-34year olds to hold a qualification at
Bachelor level or higher
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Policy reform
• National Partnership on Youth Attainment and
Transitions (NPYAT) (July 2009 – 31 December
2013)
– Increased participation of young people in education
and training
• Compact with Young Australians
– Participation requirement
– Tightening eligibility for Commonwealth income
support
– Education and training entitlement
– Improved delivery of youth careers, transitions and
support programs
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Research
• Making Career Development Core Business
This Report highlighted quality career development services
were particularly important in Victoria given
• Victoria is moving towards a demand-driven VET and higher
education system
• The post-compulsory qualifications and institutional choices that
young people face are more diverse than in any other state and
territory, and
• The extended young participation guarantee requirements means
that more young people who may previously have left the education
and training systems will need support to pursue their pathways
Making Career Development Core Business (PDF - 1.1Mb)
• On Track
Almost half of early leavers said better careers advice would
have encouraged them to stay at school (2008)
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Support for career development under
NP YAT
• Improved Career Development Services initiatives:
– Regional Career Development Officers
• I EFT employed in all DEECD regions
– Victorian Careers Curriculum Framework
• Launched online in March 2011
– Study Grants for Career Practitioners
• Graduate Certificate in Career Development
– Careers Mentoring Network Initiative
• Managed by the Office for Youth
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Victorian Careers Curriculum Framework
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Explicit online career education program by year level that shows
progression in the stages of career development
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A career education program that meets the career development
needs of young people aged 12 to 19 years
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A framework that can be customised by schools, ACE &TAFE
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A framework that applies to young people in targeted groups ,
Indigenous, ESL, Low SES Communities, Disabilities
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Provides sample Career Action Plans by level
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Links to existing resources for career development activities
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What the Framework aims to do…
Inspire young people to explore who they
are, where they fit and what they want to
achieve in life by building skills for
• Learning and work decision making
• Developing resilience
• Career management
• Networking
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What the Framework Does
Identifies:
•Career Development learning outcomes
•Possible Delivery
•Sample assessment advice and tasks
Suggest:
•Suitable delivery schedule
•Additional support
Provides:
•Sample Career Action Plans
•Links to careers resources
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What’s in the Framework?
3 stages of Career
Development :
1. Self Development
2. Career Exploration
3. Career Management
6 steps to progress career
learning
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6 Steps to Success
• Discover
Year 7
• Explore
Year 8
• Focus
Year 9
• Plan
Year 10
• Decide
Year 11
• Apply
Year 12
• My Career Capabilities
ACE & TAFE
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Delivery of the CCF in VET
Settings
• Senior Secondary Certificates - VCE and VCAL
• VET Certificates eg CGEA, Work Education
• Students Advisory Centres/ Careers Centres
• Should be delivered at stage appropriate for young
person
• Career Action Plans
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Paradigm Shift
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“The new career management paradigm is not about
making the right occupational choice. It is about
equipping young people with the competencies (skills,
knowledge and attitudes) to make the myriad of choices
with which adults are confronted continuously, in all
aspects of their adult lives, lifelong.”
• Professor Tony Watts
– Careerquake
– “… aim of the Carresr Curriculum Framework
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RCDOs Working with TAFE….
• Around the State – examples of RCDOs work with
TAFE
– Careers Curriculum Framework
– Career Development Quality Benchmarks for
good practice
• Regional Briefings on the Careers Curriculum
Framework
– contact RCDO in your area
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Resources to support Careers and
Transitions of young people in TAFE
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Careers and Transitions Resource Kit
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myfuture
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Victorian Careers Curriculum Framework
www.education.vic.gov.au/careersframework
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DEECD resources/information www.education.vic.gov.au
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Youth Transition Division resources/information
www.education.vic.gov.au/sensecyouth/default.htm
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RCDOs (Regional Career Development Officers)
www.education.vic.gov.au/sensecyouth/contacts.htm
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National youth related resources/information
www.deewr.gov.au/Youth/YouthAttainmentandTransitions/Pages/NationalPartner
ship.aspx
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NEXT STEPS
• What next?
• What can you do for young people back in
your organisation in relation to career
development?
• Who will/can you link up with to support your
work?
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LLENs
Koorie
DEECD
Transition
Coordinators
Apprenticeship Support
Officers
Adult and Skills Vic
Community
Education
DEEWR
Community
Parents Welfare
Agencies
MIPS
Career
National
Youth ConnectionsCEAV
development
Disability
practitioners
CoordinationIndependent sector
VCAA
Officers
ITAB
Employer
organisations
VRQA
Regional Career
Development
Officers
CICA
TAFE &UNI
Catholic Sector
Young
people /
students?
CDAA Private
counsellors
Workplace learning
coordinators
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