EDUC7167 Supporting students’ career planning and life skills development [Section 2B, 2024]

Course category2024-25

This course is relevant to school teachers, guidance personnel, and student-teachers who wish to have a role to play in facilitating students’ career planning and life skills development through the medium of subject teaching and co-curricular activities. Topics covered in the course will enhance participants’ understanding of the need to provide effective learning activities that support students’ career planning and life skills development. The content of the course will include: theories of career development; career assessment and self-understanding; career exploration and individual student planning; career decision-making; designing, implementing, and evaluating career planning programs; ethics, roles, and process skills; helping relationships; training and leading groups; information management, job seeking and employability; career interventions for students with special needs or from diverse cultural backgrounds; career planning for exceptionally gifted individuals, career and life planning education policy and application in Hong Kong.