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Imagine you are a teacher of Faye. Faye is a Sec 3 Express student. She is not doing well in her studies and often sleeps in class. She is demoralised and did not know what to do. She seems not motivated in her studies and is also unsure of what to do after her national examinations. She can connect well with children. She likes to spend time with her younger cousins and do activities with them. Her father is a computer engineer and her mother is a full-time housewife. She has an older sister who is studying nursing in polytechnic.

- How would you help Faye to get started and motivated, by addressing the question “Who am I?”

- Using the career wheel and factsheet, what helpful questions can you ask Faye?

- What other resources can Faye tap on?

(Please indicate your group name)

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1. Read through the case study.
2. Discuss: How would you use the ECG advising frame and your superpowers to support Josh in making informed decisions?

To help start the group discussion, you may refer to the basic advising frame template above:

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Josh has just received his results for Sec 5NA mid-year examinations.

His favourite subjects are Mathematics and Physics. He had performed below his expectations and at this rate, he is unlikely to qualify for the science course in the Junior College of his choice. His L1R5 is 23 and his L1R4 is 18. He is at a loss as to where to go as he has not considered other education pathway options and is also unsure of the career options that he is interested in. He is also beginning to feel anxious as his friends are starting to plan for their post-secondary education by applying for Polytechnic EAE.

As a hobby, he attends programming lessons and recently came in second for a coding competition.

•How would you use the ECG advising frame to help Josh to make informed decisions?

•How would you use your superpowers to support Josh in the conversation?
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Below are more guiding questions that can help deepen your discussions too.

•What helpful questions would you ask Josh?

•What resources would you use or refer Josh to?

•What superpowers would you apply?

•What actions would you guide Josh to take?

•How to guide Josh by addressing the 3 ECG questions?

(Please indicate your group name)

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Using personality and interest wheel to guide her

Using online SLS, ECG portal, my skills future

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Use Career Wheel and factsheet,
1) give her some options where she can have more experience to connect to children. (Opportunities)
2)Ask her what's her strength to find out about her interest and build upon her strength.

Resources available:
1) Career wheel
2) Factsheets
3) My skillsfuture portal

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Ask Faye what are her interest, personality & Strength. Does she have any aspirations? Guide her to find out more on related occupation based on her answers.

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- find out her strengths and interest
- guide her to myskillfuture platform
- possible career paths, market trends
- explore alternate interest pathways
- ask seniors, older sis on life in poly
- internship, work attachment, work experience
- hands-on experience
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(1) interests & personality
(2) what are some things that you feel strongly about? How do your friends describe you? What subjects do you like/ dislike?

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- Ask Faye about her Values, Interests and Personality. Ask her about her strengths. Teacher to share observations on her strengths that might be unknown to her. To check the reason for why she did not do well in her studies (is it lack of interest, did not study, etc).

- What are you interests (like to do)?
What do your friends and family members describe you as?
What possible industries do you think you can explore based on your interests and strengths?
Who else have you spoken to about your future?

- Can direct her to SkillsFuture to understand herself better.
Going for Open Houses.
Speaking to ECG counsellors and directing her to her seniors.
Look at the job openings to understand the needs of the industry (job advertisements).

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Questions to ask Faye:
What are your interests?
What are the most important thing you look for in a job that you want to be? E.g Do you prefer to work alone or in a group?
What are your strengths and weaknesses and how these gaps can be addressed?
Give them a personality quiz to see what they are like?
What are some things your family want? E.g. family of educators, engineers.
For Upper Sec, inform them about the labour market situation

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Avoid making decision for the student
Use career wheel to elicit Faye’s career goals and possibly her aspirations. Also encourage her to explore various options as not all students may be inclined to work with young children. Fortunately, Faye has a genuine interest in it.

Fill up career wheel and eliminate those which are less significant and zoom in on the possible choices.

Resources
1. Using microsites to access more information on the various courses available.
2. JAE Booklet

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First stage - Use the career goal wheel. Use the traits they show that we our familiar with, which we observe in them through our interactions

Explore Skillsfuture portal e.g Career landscape, google but be discerning

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Helpful questions:
- What are some of your interests (things you like to do in your free time)?
- What do you think your strengths are? What skills do you possess?

Other resources:
- Do research to shortlist a few courses in ITE/Poly that she might be interested in
- Ask parents/teachers/peers whom she deem can provide useful advice
- MySkillsFuture (RIASEC Code - identify dominant personality types to tag it to related industries)

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Use skills future to find out more about programmer and the programming industry

Explore which polytechnics offer such courses that interest him and he can enter with his L1R4

Qns to ask: Personal values, interests? What plans do you have? How do you get to your goal?

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Ask Josh what are his interest?
Explore his strengths in coding and careers that are in the IT industry.
Try to apply for EAE Poly in a course that he is interested in.
Explore DSA to JC.
Explore careers in environmental science since he is interested in nature.

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1) Advise used for to help josh make informed decisions: Ask him why he wants to join JC first so that we understand what is in his mind. let him share more about his options. (Fact find), may be following family members' footpath.

2) Through the facilitation after understanding him more, we provide skillsfuture (relevance to coding) platform for him to find out more and explore possible options.

3) Share with him on the EAE as he seems unsure about the options available in EAE.

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Explore education & career possibilities
- he is not very far off his target for JC, so he can work harder towards his goal to get less than 20 points. He needs to know why does he want to go to JC, eventually which career does he want to go into.

- he can also look into poly courses which interest him such as computer programming which can be a career option for him too.

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Encourage him to work harder since this is the MYEs. Seems that he is aiming towards JC. Find out why he wants to go to JC and help him see that going into poly is also a viable option (esp w his strengths) "whats your end goal?"

Encourage him to apply for EAE nonetheless and help him to identify his strengths & interests (coding). He can also start referring to poly websites and their available courses + SkillsFuture portal. Help him see that he can open up more options for tertiary education.

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1. Engage the Josh in his hobby/ interests and strengths. Engcourage him to be open-minded on the pathways available and consider various options such as IT related field.

2. Understand career choices on SLS and Skillsfuture

3. Encourage Josh to do better in his academics so he can keep his options open.

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Need to help in figure out how his values, interest,personality and skills
(Help him scaffold, based on his strengths) using the mindmap where the counsellor can show him the different pathways.

Keep an open mind. Could help him navigate the various opportunities through showing the skillsfuture portal, focusing on pursuing his strengths (coding)

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Ask the students some questions to identify their values, interests, personality and skills. E.g are u interested in coding? would you like to pursue this area as your career?
Also, ask him to explain why he didn't do so well for his studies. When he wants to go into the Science stream in JC, why and what subjects would he like to take? Since his score is not so "fantastic", advise him to be more open minded to consider exploring other options for tertiary education e.g studying IT related courses in polytechnic. In addition, since he came in second for a coding competition, he should consider going for EAE.
Ask him to approach anyone he knows who are in the IT related industry so that he can find out more information. Meanwhile, he has to develop a plan with SMART goal so that he can work towards his goal once he has firmed up on what he wants. Look for ECG counsellor for more advice. If possible, can help to link him up with Alumni who are in the IT related industry and able to offer advice to him.

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It is good for him to explore his career possibilities based on his VIPS by using skillsfuture portal.

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1) Ask him about his CCA and interest.  Try to apply EAE.
2) JC is not the only route.
3) Look up Poly courses / JC  that match his grades.
4) Explore the different careers (nature) that he might be interested in.