Explore Work Experience - Teaching Resources
A guide for teachers using the free Explore Work Experience programme with their students
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Explore Work Experience – for STUDENTS
With the EXPLORE WORK EXPERIENCE programme, students can use a combination of videos and editable worksheets to understand what work experience involves today. The workbooks contain questions, quizzes and activities to help them digest the information in the videos.
Explore Work Experience – for TEACHERS
There are 9 videos and associated workbook activities. Completing the entire virtual programme should take around 60 minutes in total. How you deliver the programme is up to you and your learners, but we have compiled a full guide in doc or pdf format to support you.
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Guidance for teachers
Thank you for taking an interest in this programme.
You can download full guidance for using this Explore Work Experience virtual programme in Word doc or PDF format, as you prefer.
This guide aims to help you understand how to use and get the most from the programme and the supporting resources freely available from Youth Employment UK for all 14-24 year olds across the UK.
Word Doc PDFTeachers… this full-length showreel is for you.
Watch all the video segments in one go.
The entire Virtual Work Experience Guide takes just over 15 minutes to watch. It has been split into 9 viewable segments on the student page for the benefit of learners.
What will your students learn?
Through watching videos and workbook activity, learners will explore a range of topics relating to work experience and today’s world of work.
- Key employment sectors
- Different types of business
- How the world of work has changed
- Key business functions
- Different career roles
- Routes into work
- Skills employers are looking for
- Work experience and volunteering
- Building networks
Editable student workbooks
They will learn about the world of work, the range of amazing careers that exist and the opportunities open to them.
Click on the digital workbook that matches your age. Save it to your device (a PC or laptop works best). Then open it on your device and you’re ready to begin!
