Career Development Skills for CALD Learners

Downloadable resource: $0.00

The development of this resource was supported by the Victorian Government with funds allocated through the Adult, Community and Further Education Board.

Career Development Skills for CALD Learners Kit is a free kit to support the delivery of an integrated career development program to adult EAL students at a pre-intermediate level of English in conjunction with their English language program. The purpose of the program as described in this kit is to build the skills, knowledge and capabilities of students so they can manage their pathways and careers through their employment journey.

The kit has been developed to assist EAL students to

develop language skills, knowledge and capabilities for career development pathway planning
explore future directions through a range of targeted activities
develop short and long term pathways plans to work or further study
identify obstacles to achieving these plans.

It can be used with students in adult ESL/Access Education/VET and foundation skills.

The Career Development Skills for CALD Learners Kit comprises

User guide, incorporating a matrix of suggested classroom activities mapped against the ACSF and the CSWE II; student worksheets; teacher resources and links to reference sources.
Classroom presentations in a PowerPoint file

The resource does not represent a course book or a unit of work. Classroom ideas and activities are presented in a structured order to help scaffold the learning, but they are not a sequence. Teachers and facilitators choose from the suggested activities to suit their class.

Suitable for adult ESL/Access Education/VET and foundation skills

Writers: Lilliana Hajncl and Diana Noor, with AMES Australia Education practitioners.

Download the kit resources from the links below

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