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Group sessions As part of the VT Indigo service, we offer tailored group sessions to students in school on a range of issues to support career decision-making and personal development. Group session topics include (click on an item for more information):
Many of these sessions can be adapted to suit different ages. Wherever appropriate, the sessions will be involving and participative. The list above is an illustration showing the range of topics VT Indigo can offer to groups of students. We also have the resources to develop bespoke courses and sessions that can be mixed and matched to suit specific needs. For more information please contact Guy Sutton: Tel: 01329 229112 Personal interests, personality and relative abilities are key components in educational and career decision making. This session focuses on the first two of these and aims to help the individual to develop an awareness of their own likes, dislikes and preferences. It will raise awareness of how the individual pupil tends to respond in different circumstances and how they are perceived by others. This exercise in self awareness can form a basis for later exploration of appropriate career and educational possibilities. It can also, in an unthreatening way, help the individual to realise areas for personal development. Changes in social and economic conditions have affected the way we work and are likely to continue to do so. This session helps the individual to identify the skills they have, as well as those they are likely to need for the future. It starts the process by building awareness of a bank of transferable skills which will help the individual to change career, working method or change geographical location, perhaps internationally, in the future whether through choice or circumstance. Decisions vary in importance from simply deciding what to do at the weekend to making formative choices about future educational courses or careers. Some decisions are personal and individually taken whilst others necessarily involve the agreement of other people. This session explores the different ways decisions are made in different circumstances, draws out key elements in the making of significant decisions, and applies them to a variety of challenging situations. Change is something which happens to us all. Earlier in life it may involve changing class or school, or moving geographically with parents. Later it may involve moving from school to university, from university into a career, or changing careers or geographical location for a variety of reasons. Some adjust to change more readily than others and some people relish variety. This session looks at key elements of change and helps to provide a supporting rationale for the future. Already pupils will have been faced with the challenge of, for example, mixing leisure time with study. This session aims to help pupils in the skill of time management and applies it in various circumstances. In order to achieve what you want in your study, work or leisure, it helps to set yourself targets. This session looks at the skill of setting realistic targets and what can be learnt from this in a variety of contexts. International higher education Studying in another country can be an extremely rich and rewarding experience. This session looks at the variety of higher education provision internationally – especially (but not only) in English speaking countries. It will look at the different formats in which study abroad can be accessed, the benefits and the disadvantages, and the financial implications of taking up this option. Pupils frequently decide on degree course subjects without considering the careers to which it can lead. For some, this is a sound option whilst, for others, having career targets is a motivational factor or a requirement for a particular career. This session explores the career possibilities from a range of contrasting degree course subjects as well as discussing the value of study for its own sake. For those who do not yet feel able to make a career decision, strategies are included to delay career choice in a positive way whilst building broadly applicable skills through higher education. Also explored will be those careers which can be entered from any degree and the skill sets commonly needed for these. Options other than degree course study It is quite common that even in the most academically successful schools, a few pupils will, for a variety of reasons, prefer to take a different route. This session pays attention to the needs of these pupils, exploring a variety of other routes whether in specialist (perhaps creative) skills, through training, constructive time out or alternative non degree courses, as well as potential employment opportunities. Individual interviews may be an alternative way to serve this group. This session looks at the advantages and disadvantages of taking a year out and shows, impartially, the variety of ways in which the time can be constructively spent. By use of case studies and pupil decision making panels, this session teases out and discusses, for different degree subjects, what a university admissions officer is likely to look for in an application. Who would the pupils choose if faced with the decision? This course is invaluable in helping pupils focus on what is needed in their UCAS or other HE application. Good at sport? Careers and courses to interest you For pupils with a special interest or who are good at sport, an enticing possibility can be a career which is, in some way, related to it. This session explores a range of sport related courses and careers. Frequently, the route to more creative careers in, for example, art and design, dance or drama involves a different route from the norm. This session looks at creative careers, the routes to achieve these and what is likely to be required of the individual if they are to succeed.
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