Student Workshops
Designed to prepare high-school students to feel ready to meet the world that awaits them outside the school gates with curiosity and confidence.
The Future of Work
Help students prepare for the future of work with impactful workshops that serve as a guiding compass towards a purposeful and fulfilling life.
Careers Education Workshops
What is Careers Education?
Careers Education enhances students’ knowledge, skills, and attitudes about the future of work through school learning experiences.
With a structured program, students gain the tools and strategies to help them make informed decisions about their senior school pathways, subject choices, post-secondary education, training, and career options.
Careers Education is vital to ensuring students are prepared and feel confident in their decision-making abilities when they leave school to join our ever-changing world of work.
(Adapted from The Australian Blueprint for Career Development)
Years 5 and 6
Dream Big
In this workshop, students are immersed in experiential learning activities that help them identify strengths, build self-awareness, and explore their well-being in relation to their careers pathway.
Through storytelling and imaginative exercises, students will explore their dreams and aspirations.
This workshop covers the following:
Identify Strengths
Unpack 21st-Century Learning Skills
Goal Setting
Understanding the future of work
Years 7 and 8
Understanding Strengths and Aspirations
In this workshop, students are invited to explore their personal strengths and understand how these can impact and influence their current and future aspirations.
They will gain knowledge about the future of work and realise the importance of knowing themselves to live a life they find purposeful and fulfilling.
This workshop covers the following:
21st-Century Skills
Strength Exploration
Curiosity and Identifying Passions
Understanding the changing world of work
Years 9 and 10
Resume Writing and Interview Skills
In this interactive workshop, students will gain confidence in essential 21st-century skills to begin preparation for the future of work.
They will be provided with practical tools and strategies to write resumes, prepare for job interviews and consider the skills they wish to build on in their senior year of school.
This workshop covers the following:
Resume format
Preparing for interviews
Applying strengths and skills
Public speaking and communication tips and tricks
Years 11 and 12
Become Career Ready
Every career counsellor has repeatedly heard the “I don’t know” response from students when asked about their options following graduation.
This session empowers students to take control of their lives, deepening their understanding and connection to themselves and preparing them to make decisions and take ownership of their choices after school.
This workshop covers the following:
The future of work
Being comfortable with the uncomfortable
Values identification
Redefining interests and skills
Goal setting and finding purpose
Bespoke Workshops
Responding to Your Student’s Needs
Through consultation, Youth Engagement Project will work with your school career’s office, year-level coordinators, or student teams to develop a bespoke 90-minute, half or full-day workshop.
A bespoke workshop can cover a range of topics to best suit the needs of your students and your school community.
We are now taking bookings for Term 3 and Term 4, 2024 and are beginning to take bookings for Term 1 and 2, 2025.
Please note that our workshop times are tailored to suit the needs of your school, students and timetable blocking.
In an ideal world, these sessions are run as either 90-minute or half-day workshops, but as teachers, we understand the importance of flexibility and will do our best to meet your requirements.
Public Speaking and Oral Presentation Workshops
Help your students prepare for their oral presentation.
As educators, we are expected to stand and speak in front of our students and colleagues in our day-to-day roles.
For our students, this assessment task can be one of the most daunting and stressful experiences of their high school journey.
75% of people have a fear of public speaking.
If you do the maths, this means that in your class of 25 students, approximately 19 of them (18.75 to be exact) may find the idea of speaking in front of their peers deeply uncomfortable.
Our public speaking and oral presentation workshops are designed to support students to embrace this discomfort, know how to prepare and practice and feel confident and certain in their delivery.
Public Speaking and Oral Presentation Workshops for High School Students
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Our public speaking and oral presentation workshops are hands-on and interactive. They require students to step out of their comfort zones and embrace their growth zones. Students will practice the soft and hard presenting skills taught throughout the workshop.
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Many hard and soft skills will be taught throughout the workshop, including:
- Effective audience engagement tips and tricks
- How to control body, voice and breath
- Using the space and hand gestures purposefully and effectively
- How to build trust and connection with the audience
- Management of nerves and self-regulation during presentations
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Our Youth Engagement Project facilitators and trainers have over 12 years of experience in public speaking, and, as a bonus, they're also experienced teachers. This means you can trust them to know how to meet the needs of your students, and feel confident they will deliver outcomes that support your lessons.
