Lesson Plan
Date created: July 2009
Organisation:
By:
Topic:
Option Choices for KS4
Activity:
Target Group: Year 9
Time: I Hour + I Hour lesson for research
KS3 – Making Choices for KS4 (1)
CWW learning outcomes
Range:
3. use a variety of sources for
Skills:
Attitudes and Values:
5 select and interpret information
7. consider own and other peoples
ideas about learning and CWW
Taking responsibility
Self motivation
information about opportunities
8 identify people able to provide
support
9 identify any obstacles to future
plans
10 make decisions for KS4
pathways
Objectives:
Learners able to understand the options available to
them and make realistic decisions
Materials, resources and preparation needed:
KS3 – Making Choices for KS4 (1) ppt
Print off quiz pages from ppt if required
The school programme for their 14-19 Learning
Pathways
www.careerswales.com Year 9 section
Equality & Diversity Development:
Opportunity to discuss and challenge traditional
gender choices
Key/Essential Skills:
Problem solving
IOLP
Delivery
Time
Starter:
Page 2 Use the “Can you guess my job” to start the students thinking about the decisions they
will shortly be making
Page 3 Answer – This can reinforce the different types of work available, full time, part time,
working from home, shift work, voluntary work can be paid or unpaid.
5 mins
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Main:
Page 4 What are the Learning Pathways
Explain that the curriculum changes from KS3 (where all students follow the same subjects) to
KS4 where students have the opportunity to select a range of subjects to personalise their
learning/ pathway. This choice is the learner’s decision but it must be made with
discussion/support from their parents / carers, teachers/tutors and careers adviser.
Each school will have its own version for KS4 pathways and the ppt presentation can be
adapted to fit individual schools pathways programme
www.careerswales.com may provide the basic information
45 mins
Page 5 Customise this page to show the subjects available at your school
Page 6 Making your choice – further information to help decision making
Page 7 –You can print off this page if required
Tick or Highlight the positive reasons for making choices
Page 8 – Answers
Page 9 You can print this page if required
Students need to aware of their strengths / weaknesses/ likes and dislikes before they can start
- to help them think about the suitability of various jobs
Page 10 Students need to be aware of the new jobs that are appearing – therefore they will
need to do some research on a range of jobs
Plenary:
Ask students to write down 3 things they must remember when making their choices and ask for
individuals to respond
Ask students to identify the difference between a subject that is “useful” and a subject that is
“required” for a particular job
The next lesson the students should have time to be able to research some of the jobs that
interest them and find out which subjects may be required
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Evaluation of group-work (please circle):
Good
Satisfactory
Development needed
Comments:
(Opportunity to reflect upon lesson plan/delivery – for your own professional development)
(Where required reference the inclusion of relevant Labour Market information subject based links.
Links to PSE, etc
Other
Opportunity to highlight the local labour market using local examples – e.g. companies/industries in decline.
Credit Crunch 2009 and job losses and redundancies.
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