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I love this photo of @daniel_mcdonagh’s students. It’s replicated all over the country in #DEC classrooms. Brickwork, joinery, HVAC and electrical trades to civil/structural eng, construction/project mgmt, architecture, arch tech, land/quantity surveying, BIM tech, site engineer. https://twitter.com/paulcarder/status/1322220626225078273
14 different jobs, 25 different students. Their careers advice came from the curriculum which had them not only explore different roles but take them on, supplemented by chats with the many professional visitors who came into the classroom and a teacher who wanted to learn too.
These students now go back into schools to help the next generation learn. A very small number of universities and professional bodies help our students decide which way to go. Their websites, ironically, are often not very ‘child-friendly’ to inspire a career from a young age...
And in terms of outreach, teachers don’t know what they don’t know, so they don’t know who to ask for. The curriculum has never been so narrow, and teachers under so much pressure, there’s little time or opportunity to find out for themselves.
Careers and skills for that matter have always been separated from curriculum and knowledge. Why study physics? Maths? A language? Start with WHY, give young people and teachers the chance to explore, and the what and how will come. A great lesson for all of us, eh @simonsinek?!
