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1. Find out from Rina which direction does she want and her motivation, ART career through artistic skill sets or to create similar meaningful experience for others through art therapy. The latter will require other skill sets and credentials like counselling / pyschology etc
1a. Need to check with her for her art portfolio, personal statements and her academic results. Requirements will depend on the courses that she will want to take up (See 1b)
1b. She will need to read up on the different courses provided and whether the poly courses will allow her to pursue her preferred courses in Uni. e.g UAS - Uni of the Arts, Singapore

2. Being empathetic and provide a listening ear. Ask her to analyse her strengths and weaknesses. Let her know not to be discourage by the weaknesses but work with her to make mini steps to correct them.

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1. Read through the group's Assigned Scenario.
2. As a group, write your suggestions under the Scenario # column.

To help start the group discussion, you may refer to the  ECG Advising Frame template above and/or ECG Resources on the left column.

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1. Infusing ECG into existing school programmes (e.g., CCA, VIA, ALP)
2. Leveraging partnerships for ECG
3. Connecting classroom learning with future possibilities

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https://go.gov.sg/oecdpisaecg

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Guiding points:
(1) How would you use the ECG Advising Frame to help the student to sense-make?

(2) How would you use your strengths to support student in the conversation?

(3) What helpful questions would you ask this student?

(4) What resources would you use or refer the student to, why?

(5) What actions would you guide this student to take? Why?

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Parents Handbook_Journeying with Our Children - Supporting Their Aspirations

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Parents Handbook_Journeying with Our Children - Supporting Their Aspirations

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Helping Students Understand MySF Career Interests Report

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Helping Students Understand MySF Career Interests Report

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Booking Link: go.gov.sg/ecgahs

Monday + Wednesday
Email: lim_zhong_juinn@moe.edu.sg

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MOE website: go.gov.sg/ecg-resources

OPAL: go.gov.sg/ecg-opal

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What is Education and Career Guidance?

Education and Career Guidance (ECG) helps students develop a sense of purpose in life. By nurturing self-awareness and self-directedness for lifelong learning, ECG helps students develop a growth mindset, adaptability and a resilient attitude to embrace future opportunities and appreciate the value of all occupations.

Goals of ECG

The goals of ECG (Figure 1) are to support students in:

Discovering purpose - Who am I?
Nurture students' self-awareness to support them in discovering how they can meaningfully play a part in their community.

Exploring opportunities - Where do I want to go?
Develop students' self-directedness and confidence to explore and leverage education and career opportunities while respecting the value of all occupations.

Staying relevant - How do I get there?
Build students' adaptability and resilience to embrace the need for lifelong learning.

My SkillsFuture portal

The MySkillsFuture portal is a one-stop portal with information and tools to explore various education and career pathways for all students from Primary 5 to junior colleges and Millennia Institute.

You and your child can use your child's account to explore the student portal, and take the opportunity to begin an ECG conversation:

ECG Counselling

Secondary schools, junior colleges, Millennia Institute and post-secondary education institutions are resourced with ECG Counsellors. They work closely with the respective institutions' ECG teams to guide students to make informed decisions about their education and career plans.

ECG Centre @ MOE

The ECG Centre @ MOE provides ECG counselling services for students during periods such as the release of their GCE N-Level, O-Level and A-Level examination results.

To book an appointment, please contact:

Email: MOE_ECG@moe.gov.sg

Phone: 6831 1420

E-appointment system: https://go.gov.sg/moe-ecg-centre

ECG resources

You can refer to the following resources to learn how to support your child in their education and career journey.

MySkillsFuture - Learn about the key features in the MySkillsFuture Student Portals across the different levels and how your child can use the various portals for education and career planning.

Journeying with Our Children, Supporting Their Aspirations - Pick up tips and advice on ECG and related considerations at key education stages to guide your child.

What's Next - Use this resource to support your child's decision-making process at their key education stages.

The Next Step Forward - See how 54 individuals go through diverse education and career pathways. The inspirational narratives highlight the many options that cater to the students' needs and can help them discover their selected pathways.

Hand in Hand - Journeying Together - See how different stakeholders come together to support students' ECG journeys.

Learn more about supporting your child's social emotional development.

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Overview of Education and Career Guidance

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Education and Career Guidance (ECG) helps students develop a sense of purpose in life. By nurturing self-awareness and self-directedness for lifelong learning, ECG helps students develop a growth mindset, adaptability and a resilient attitude to embrace future opportunities and appreciate the value of all occupations.

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Have a conversation with Jean to get an idea of what she would like to pursue post O-level. Find out what are Jean's interests.

Broaden the options. Talk to Jean's father that JC is not the only option.

Find out the best combination for her: Combined Science and E Mathematics

Need to align parents' and Jean's interests. Parents have to understand that it is best to keep in mind Jean's interests. Parents should manage their expectations.

Speak to the parties separately so that there is no clash.

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1. National UG will have sharing on careers with hometeam/ SAF/ Attachments with hospitals (SJB) --> Teachers to have reflection and debrief attendees.
2. SDP programs where we invite professionals like You Jin, Youyi to share about being author and Newscaster
3. Stretch Week - worksite visit
4. Job shadowing/ Workplace experience --> visiting radio stations
5. Leverage on partners to provide internship

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For existing programmes, we can have an ECG component at the end to have students reflect and think of potential ECG opportunities connected to the vendor.

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1. Let's cultivate an environment of openness and respect where everyone can feel comfortable asking questions and sharing insights. We learn the most when we learn together.

2. To enhance the learning journey, we should incorporate more interactive methods and activities. Hands-on experiences often lead to deeper understanding and retention.

3. Promoting peer interaction during Co-Curricular Activities (CCA) can lead to a stronger sense of community and shared responsibility. What strategies can we employ to encourage this?

4. What if we introduce part-time job opportunities to students? This can provide them real-world experience, financial independence, and can also help them learn and practice work-life balance.

5. We should be encouraging students to plan and lead their own programmes. This fosters leadership and management skills and provides a sense of ownership.

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By tapping on the experience of the trainers/ coaches. They can share their experience with their students. This can be done via school talks.

Sharing by professionals. For example, Art Club can invite professionals to share on different modes of art.

NPCC: bring the cadets to Hometeam Academy for exposure

Creative Arts Programme: Mentorship by local authors

Tap on alumni's experience.

Podcasting ALP: interview professionals from the media industry e.g Steven Chia

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- In CCA, we can broaden students' understanding on a certain industry (through learning journeys/workshops) or having alumni to speak to students.
- LJs - smaller groups will be more beneficial and may allow conversations to folllow.

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1. Infusing current technologies into academic lessons. This will help students be more aware of how current technologies that are affecting the field of work. It can also help them be more aware of the relevance of what they are learning in the classroom.

2. Talk about career opportunities during academic teaching, to help students see the relevance of what they are learning. Show relevant videos from SKillsfuture portal so students are hearing from currrent practitioners.

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During Student-led PTM, students to share what they want beyond CCHM (that is, after they graduate).

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Invite alumni to share

Invite students to share their dreams and aspiration.

Use Skill future portal to know the strengths and skills.

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workplace attachment opportunities

leveraging alumni connections to create internship opportunities

intentionally finding opportunities to "plant the seed" in our everyday lessons.

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1. Attachment opportunities, e.g. Hospital Attachment (SJB), work attachment opportunities with companies/organisations.
2. Sharing by professionals, e.g. engaging parents/alumni/etc to share work experiences and insights with students.
3. Kickstarting discussions by getting students to share aspirations, interests, etc to learn more about what students could be interested in.

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Intentional in selecting teaching examples & LJ

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Infusion of ECG
1. LJ, SDPs
2. Extend discussion from lessons if they involve certain careers less known in depth by students
Partnership
1. Career talks by alumni in various industries
2. Career fair where reps from different industry can answer queries

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1. Help student understand her health situation better.
2. Understand the various law professions - paralegal, different types of law, police officer, corporate law, be a politician (youth wing).
3. Take a gap year - focus on your well being first.
4. Consider alternative education pathways outside of Singapore.

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Allow Jean to clarify her goals and discover her purpose in life. She can be encouraged to explore other options and not limit herself to the JC route. She should consider her strengths and look into opportunities to develop her interest.

This conversation can also be extended to her father. Her father can be made aware of the other subject options in tertiary education and beyond. Her father can be encouraged to look at her talents and inclination.

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Guide her to find out the nature of her desired job, prompt her to think about whether her health conditions permit her to develop in this career path.

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Guide her to find out the nature of her desired job, prompt her to think about whether her health conditions permit her to develop in this career path.

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Meet with Jean and her parents to discuss their concerns and develop a plan tailored to her needs. Understand her learning style and any specific areas where she struggles. Offer extra support, such as additional tutoring or resources, to help her catch up in math and science.

Acknowledge Jean's strengths in the humanities and encourage her to continue excelling in those subjects. Help her recognize that having a strong foundation in humanities can complement her overall education and provide valuable skills for various career paths.

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1. Rather than focusing on her ambitions, focus on the skillset that she has, so that she can understand her strengths better.
2. Connect her to other possibilities like paralegal, police officer.
3. Although her academic results are not ideal at the moment, encourage her that that does not mean that she may not be able to achieve what she wants but she may need to take a different path to reach the same goal.

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Guide her to find out more about the profession and prompt her to think about whether her health conditions allows her to fulfil her dreams. Go thr the questioning structure with her.

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Guide her to find out more about the profession and prompt her to think about whether her health conditions allows her to fulfil her dreams. Go thr the questioning structure with her.

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1. Understand her purpose and intentions of pursuing law --> money? sense of justice? prestige?
2. Find out more on why she feels her academic performance will affects her pursuing law - is it above timeline, not catching up with her peers?
3. Engage her in conversations on her interests and skills that are relevant to possible careers or education courses.

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1. Prioritise her health first, take a break from studies if necessary.
2. Let her understand that there are also other ways to pursue her interests, e.g. DSA, EAE etc and academic results are not everything.
3. Ask her what she finds interesting about reading law. From there, let her explore alternative career pathways.

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- Find out her struggles in her subject, encourage her to seek help by consulting with teachers to increase ownership of her learning.

- Broaden perspectives of post secondary school options. (e.g. polytechnic, JC, SOTA, NAFA, La Salle)

- There are options within the same industry (music). E.g. Marketing, business, events management, etc.