LC Work Experience Guidance Counsellors Resourses - Flipbook - Page 4
Suggested activities
Suggested activities
Before you start…
Students must have started or completed a module
of work experience and have completed some or
all of the activities from the Languages
Connect Work Experience activity pack.
http://bit.ly/TYWorkExperienceActivityPack
Students are advised to bring this activity pack
and any documents relating to their work experience
to class, as they will be using them.
This may also include their
work experience reports
completed in your school.
Activity 1
Suggested times
Description
25/30 min
1) Explain to the students that they will look at how their work experience
and language learning have helped them develop their own set of key
skills.
Learning Outcome:
Students will evaluate
their work experience
in terms of the
development of a
personal skill set.
Resources available
There is a list of skills at
the end of each activity
in the Languages Connect
Work experience activity
pack.
Students identify
skills used, describe how
these were developed
and explore ways to
further develop
these skills.
Document A:
Tarsia puzzle:
understanding skills P.7
Document B:
Identifying key skills P.8
Document C:
Looking at my skills P.9
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Students should have their Languages Connect Work Experience activity
pack during the class.
2) To begin, students will develop an understanding of what skills are.
Document A (located on page 7 of this resource) is a tarsia puzzle which
will help students to develop this understanding.
3) Now, students try to identify key skills present in language learning
which they would have come across during their work experience. In
Document B (located on page 8 of this resource), students can work
individually or in pairs.
They read the statements and match them with the identified skills.
This will help the students recognise that learning/using language
helps develop a wide range of skills. (This can be reinforced by
displaying the skills poster on your guidance board.)
4) Students will then move to looking at the development of their own
personal skills. In Document C (located on pages 9-11 of this resource),
students will reflect on the skills they used and developed during their
work experience.
Students should work individually on Section A.
In Section B, students work in pairs to develop a personal plan to
develop more key skills. Their plan can be reviewed over the year and
help them to choose activities which will help them master a new key
skill.
