4Teachers

Teachers love this site for two reasons;

• careers information and advice for students to surf at their own pace at home as well as at school
• a classroom resource to stimulate interest in subjects right across the curriculum

It’s a great resource for the final year of Key Stages 3, KS4 and onwards.

Peer-to-peer Careers Advice

For students today, the world really is their oyster and there’s no better place to discover the breadth and depth of opportunity than here on Careers4u. It is a great way to explore  what life is really like out there in the workplace. Careers4u.tv also includes a number of interviews featuring professionals working in non-stereotypical roles. Each Careers4u.tv video interview comes with Useful Links to relevant Sector Skills Councils and other organisations.  The website is designed to support teachers and careers professionals and be used in conjunction with other career resources.  ACEG have kindly provided some useful guidelines.

Bringing real life to classroom teaching

Careers4u is a great way of bringing the relevance of what you’re teaching in the classroom to real life.  Use Careers4u.tv to introduce a specific learning topic or simply to introduce students to careers relevant to your subject. Why not open a an ICT lesson with Aman explaining his exciting role as a digital marketing specialist and games designer for Panasonic Or a DT lesson on the properties of materials with this video of Liza talking about snowboard design Or a Geography lesson on urban development with Cleo talking about her role as a planning policy officer

Support Resources for Teachers

We have loads more suggestions for use of individual clips for bringing work-related learning to teaching across the curriculum in the downloadable Teacher’s Notes. For teachers of Maths, English, ICT and Business Studies we especially recommend taking a look at the Teacher’s Notes for the 28 Enjoying Work interviews.

Careers Ideas

A 6-minute video loop designed for use in assemblies and tutorials, during Careers Week for example, can be previewed and downloaded here

Giving career relevance to your subject

If you would like to introduce students to careers relevant to your subject visit the Explore page and click on the categories underas appropriate on the listings under Favourite Subject and Industry Sector headings.  Alternatively teachers of vocational subjects may like to look at clips listed in the vocationally-focussed Looking Ahead DVD series.

Teacher’s Forum

Take a look at the Forum page where Teachers discuss new and different ways of making this site work for them.

Multi-user Licences

Schools and colleges can purchase a licence and use the website directly or through the school intranet site. We work with all leading VLEs. More details here. Schools licences are available at £295 + VAT per school per annum. Contact us for further information

DVDs

Selected Careers4u video clips have been grouped for careers and cross-curricular teaching. Teacher’s Notes can be downloaded for all these clips. We offer the following:

• The CAREERS IN STEM DVD

A single DVD with ten case studies featuring careers where a knowledge of Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics is essential.  £59.50 + VAT   more…

• The LOOKING AHEAD Series

14 DVDs each holding five case studies featuring careers relevant to different lines of vocational learning. Individual DVDs £39.50 + VAT   more…

• The ENJOYING WORK Series

4 DVDs about transferable skill-sets that are relevant to all industry sectors.

Seven clips are included on each DVD.  Individual DVDs £49.50 + VAT   more…

• The Challenging Gender Stereotypes DVD

A single DVD with ten case studies featuring careers where young people of both sexes discuss their careers in roles traditionally undertaken by the opposite sex. £59.50 + VAT more…

Testimonials

Don’t just take our word for it, see what other teachers and parents have to say. And feel free to contact us if you have any ideas or questions. We’d love to hear what you think.