Welcome to Week 4. Just 21 days to conference!

Just a reminder of the Lunchtime Byte Pre-conference Warm up Schedule. This week we have Pauline Latta with the Mocksey interview App - https://www.mocksey.com/.

Register to receive the Zoom link below. Please note all sessions will be recorded.

Next Monday 6th November, we have Liv Pennie talking about a whole school career approach to career education.

Also included in this update is information from the Ministry of Education about ensuring students have access to the internet at home. They are reaching students through a number of channels and have asked that we identify any students where this might be an issue. Further information and flyer are below.

I have also highlighted an opportunity for any students interested in Signmaking.

Have a great week.

Ngā mihi

Leigh

Lunchtime Byte Pre-conference Series

Wednesday 25 Oct

 12.30 pm

Financial Literacy Programme - Alex Sorenson 

Banqer

Recording Banqer

 

Thursday 26 Oct 12.30 pm

"Wayfinding" approach to career development with particular reference to refugee and migrant students. Dr Val O’Reilly

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MOE Senior Advisors: Refugee and Migrant Support contact details

Career Wayfinding Programme Power Point slides

Recording - Wayfinding

Friday 3 Nov

12.30 pm

Mocksey - Interview App  Pauline Latta

Mocksey provide resources for young people to practice their interview skills. One of the key features of the App is where students share recorded interviews with a coach and receive individual feedback.

Zoom Registration

Monday 6 Nov 

12.30 pm

BECOME - Junior and Year 11 Career Programme Liv Pennie

2024 will be our 3rd year of partnership with BECOME to support NZ schools in taking a whole school approach to careers ed. This pre-conference warm-up session is for those schools who are interested in looking further into the programme and is an opportunity for senior leaders, careers teams and teaching staff to learn more about what a project based junior -Year 11 careers programme could look like. Liv wiil be at the CATE Conference to work further with schools interested in implementing this in 2024.

Zoom Registration

Tuesday 7 Nov 

12.30 pm

Sorted in Schools Financial Resources    Clare Bailey

Sorted is a financial capability teaching and learning programme that is government funded and free for all secondary schools. It is designed by teachers for teachers and available for both English Medium and Māori Medium Education.

Zoom Registration

Monday 13 Nov 

12.30 pm

Degrees Apprenticeships                               Eve Price

This talk introduces a discussion on Degree Level Apprenticeships (DLAs) in New Zealand's vocational education system. DLAs offer higher-level qualifications, but face unique challenges in New Zealand due to perceptions, funding, and regulatory factors. We will cover the scarcity of DLAs in the country, emphasising the need for collaborative efforts to change perceptions, expand access, and serve priority groups like Māori and Pasifika learners.

Zoom Registration 

Tuesday 14 Nov

12.30 pm

Dr Lynette Reid - Empowering Our Youth: career processes, strategies, and practices that enable successful career transitions – ww.w.epit.org.nz/reports/empowering-our-youth
This report investigates approaches being taken in a selection of secondary schools in South Auckland that serve multicultural and diverse income communities. It offers valuable insights into the strategies employed by career advisors to empower and equip students with the tools necessary for making informed decisions about their post-school pathways.		Zoom Registration 

Thursday 16th November 

8.30 pm

OECD research informing the New Brunswick Career Education Framework - Dr Anthony Mann

Anthony Mann is a Senior Policy Analyst at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).  His team leads the OECD’s work on how schools can best prepare young people for their working lives through programmes of career development.  To find out more about the OECD’s work on career readiness, including the recently launched Observatory on the use of Digital technologies in Career guidance for Youth, visit: https://www.oecd.org/education/career-readiness/.  You can connect with Anthony on linked-in at https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthony-mann-81aaba17/ and sign up for monthly updates from the Career Readiness team by emailing: Career.Readiness@oecd.org.

 

In this presentation, Anthony will share insights from a large international research project which reviewed longitudinal datasets from 10 countries to investigate the relationships between teenage career development and better employment outcomes ten years later.  Identifying a many predictors of better outcomes linked to how students explore, experience and think about potential futures in employment, the presentation will summarise the findings and discuss how they can be drawn upon in design of effective and equitable career guidance systems.  The presentation provides important background to the keynote presentation of Tricia Berry at the CATE conference on Thursday 23rd of November.

Zoom Registration

The Ministry of Education wants all school children to have access to the internet at home, and so they (Manaiakalani Education Trust) are working with the Ministry to arrange free home internet for any household with a school-age child and no current home internet connection.  The Ministry will pay for installation and monthly costs through to 30 June 2024, and we’re working on the solution for beyond (with no obligation on families). 

This is a really significant opportunity to help all our learners have access to the internet from home, to continue their learning when they’re not at school, and to ensure their whānau is connected to digital life. 

Information has been sent out to schools, educators, housing providers and social agencies to ensure that any household who is eligible can benefit from this.  However, the message sometimes gets lost or not picked up by the right person, so they’re letting others within school communities know too, and this may be something that you can also share with the students they work with.

Whānau of school children have the option to contact the MOE directly to get connected (as well as being referred in by schools) as we want to make sure that any household who needs it can take up this opportunity.  The MOE have made it straightforward for whānau to get connected by setting up a team called EDOS that talks to them, arranges installation by the internet service provider and arranges for the Ministry to pay the provider directly.  EDOS also runs a support helpdesk for any questions that the whānau may have.

More information for households is in the brochure (MoE Free Internet Programme 2023) and here: EDOS - Home

 

Please share with your student community.

Sign making is the trade that has it all from the creative design, to creating and making and then installing and applying signage on buildings, shop fronts, corporate branding, race cars, boats and cars.

Not one day is the same, so if you are a multi-tasker, problem solver, hands on creator and maker then this trade is for you. Sign up now to receive a massive discount of over $500 on the Signee programme!

Enrolments and 50% deposit must be made on or before Friday 15 December 2023. Full Payment must be received before programme commences mid-late Jan 2024.

For more information please contact signee@nzsda.org.nz