Careers

Not all of us have the same interests and not all us of want to have the same job when we're older. We definitely found this out this week, as we've been investigating various professions people have, leading into report writing about a job that interests us at the moment. 

Our question is...
How might our personal qualities and interests influence what we do when we are older?

All of our literacy groups have been reading about people who have different jobs and last week they used what they had learned to undertake some art-based projects (see our USpace galleries).

After discussing our skills, knowledge and interests, we've been browsing professions on the Careers New Zealand website (www.careers.govt.nz). We have each highlighted one or more jobs that interest us and will be choosing one to investigate further to write an information report about. As a class we have identified questions we will need to ask in our research, like 'What do they do?', 'What knowledge and skills do they need?', 'What are the working conditions like?' and 'How do you get into the job?'.

We will be making connections between the skills and attitudes that professionals need in their jobs, and those that we say we value in Room 14. 

Erin had a wander around our classroom yesterday and asked a few of us what careers we are thinking about in the early stages...