Roadmap to Career education benchmarks – secondary
Outcome dimension
S: Student career management competencies
Students need support to develop their capability to self-manage their life and learning and successfully transition from school to further learning and work. Culturally responsive, effective career education programmes and
services focus on developing students’ career literacy and capabilities so they are resilient, confident, connected and actively involved in lifelong learning. This will enable them to follow the pathway they choose, through
which they might realise their potential and be effective contributors to our economy and society.
S1 Developing self-awareness
S2 Exploring opportunities
S3 Reviewing options and making choices
S4 Planning, managing change and transitions
S1.1 Self-knowledge
S2.1 Opportunity awareness
S3.1 Making life, learning and work decisions
S4.1 Life, learning and work plans
S1.2 Developing capabilities
S2.2 Life, learning and work realities
S3.2 Creating opportunities
S4.2 Acting to secure future education, training and/or work
S1.3 Changing and growing
S2.3 Accessing and using information
S3.3 Identifying the next step
S4.3 Managing change and transition
Input dimensions
L: Leadership
Active and committed leaders visibly support a whole-school approach to the development of career management competencies through future-focused career development programmes and services that ensure students
transition effectively through secondary school.
L1 School-wide career education plan
L2 Roles and responsibilities
L3 Provision of resources and support
L4.Approaches to career development
L1.1 Key school documents
L2.1 Senior Leadership Team support
L3.1 Allocation and use of career education time
L4.1 School structures
L1.2 Career development vision
L2.2 Career development lead team
L3.2 Career development funding allocation
L4.2 Use of specialist agencies
L1.3 Career development policy
L2.3 Career development specialist
L3.3 Career development facilities
L4.3 Student portfolios
L1.4 Whole-school approach
L2.4 Career development staff
L3.4 Whole-school professional learning and development
L1.5 Career education plan
P: Programmes and Services
Career development programmes and services focusing on coherent, connected and contextualised learning are regularly reviewed, evaluated and improved, using school-wide processes that promote the development of
student career management competencies as well as effective transitions.
P1 Whole-school approach to developing student career
management competencies
P2 Documentation and planning
P3 Information systems and resources
P1.1 Documentation of the school-wide integration of career
development
P2.1 Planning and review
P3.1 Career development information
P2.2 Response to current trends
and new opportunities
P3.2 Access to career development information and technology
P1.2 Student career management competency development
P1.3 Career learning and development
P3.3 Information and data management systems
P3.4 Portfolio of student career management competencies
P1.4 Learning pathways
P1.5 Teaching and learning
T: Transitions
Students have opportunities to develop career management competencies in many different settings. These experiences engage students with the wider school community and help build attributes such as the resilience
needed to help them navigate their secondary schooling and life beyond it.
T1 Effective transition processes
T2 Successful student transitions
T3 Family, school and community engagement
T1.1 Transition to secondary school
T2.1 Personalised learning
T3.1 Whānau, aiga and family participation
T1.2 Transitioning through secondary school
T2.2 Students’ programmes
T3.2 School community engagement
T1.3 Transitioning beyond secondary school
T3.3 Networks and partnerships
T3.4 Encounters with the community
Careers New Zealand
© Crown 2014
Roadmap to Career education benchmarks – secondary
Careers New Zealand
© Crown 2014