Module 3: COMMUNITY

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task two

Choose one of the following strategies.

strategy 1

Prepare ahead of time a copy of the list below on a flip chart. Keep it covered so that the class does not see it until the appropriate time. These ideas were given by employers from a department store, a print workshop, an office and an hotel.

strategy 2

Ask the pupils to bring in job advertisements from the newspapers.

strategy 1 and 2

Arrange that they work in small groups on question one of worksheet 3 (page 6) Stepping out - task two. They will find a space on which to write their ideas.

When they have had a full discussion and written down their own ideas, they can, as a whole class, compare their ideas either with the flip chart or job advertisements.

What emerges from this comparison? What have they learnt about
a) themselves
b) the expectations of people in the work place?.

The class should record their findings under questions 2,3, and 4 on worksheet 2.

task three

For this the pupils should be in pairs, everyone with someone who knows her/him well, so that they can help each other. Ask them to look at what they wrote on worksheet 1 (page 3) In the work place.

They should help each other to think out:
• what they would like to be better at.
• one thing in themselves they would like to change while they are out on work experience and how this might happen.
They should write this in box one on worksheet 3 (page 6) – Looking ahead.

follow-up of work experience

For this they should, if possible, be with the same person as they were when they filled in box one page 6. Ask them to read through what they wrote there.

Encourage them to share their experiences in the work place in the light of what they have written and then to write the most valuable things they have learnt about themselves and about the world of work, in box two - Looking back.

It would be worthwhile to draw the whole class together to share what they discovered/learnt particularly about themselves and their own attitudes.