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A set of careers education lesson plans for key stages 3 and 4

‘An Introduction to Values and Careers’ is a careers education resource from Unboxd for key stages 3 and 4 that focuses on the importance of considering values when choosing a career path. It is designed to help students to identify and explore career choices based on their values and strengths and help them to create a feasible action plan for following up on these choices.

There are five lesson plans included on the following topics, supported by teacher guidance and additional materials:

1. What do I think about my future?
2. What are my values?
3. How can I show my values?
4. What links values to careers?
5. What have I learned?

The resources are available for free once you register on the Unboxd website

The PSHE Association’s Subject Specialist Lucy Marcovitch says

This succinct resource for Key stages 3 to 4 helps students begin to identify their personal strengths and values, and link these to exploring and identifying future career choices. Each of the five structured sessions uses a range of interactive and engaging activities based on clear, measurable and progressive learning outcomes.

The resource gives students a valuable opportunity to identify, but also to challenge, their own values and to consider those of others, and use their self-reflection to consider the kinds of careers that may suit them. Due to its clarity and ease of use, Unboxd would make a valuable addition to a school's planned PSHE education programme of learning.