Toolkits and guidance to support your STEM careers activities
A collection of resources that provide guidance and support for your STEM careers activities.
Skills Builder Toolkit
he Skills Builder Toolkit draws together the best thinking and experience around building essential skills from educators, employers and other skills-building organisations. It turns skills that can often seem hazy into a consistent set of eight transferable skills:
- Listening
- Presenting
- Problem Solving
- Creativity
- Aiming High
- Staying Positive
- Teamwork
- Leadership
Each skill is broken down into teachable, learnable and assessable chunks, putting them into an effective order to support progression throughout primary, secondary and post-16.
Measuring the impact of your STEM career activities
A collection of resource to support measuring the impact of your careers programme and careers activities.
STEM Choices: a Resource Pack
This pack from the Department for Education was developed for careers education and information, advice and guidance (IAG) practitioners to support their work in engaging tutors, subject teachers, personal and careers advisers in the business of STEM careers awareness.
The resources are designed to boost the confidence and readiness of front-line staff to engage with young people and their parents about STEM choices, and to give well-informed and up-to-date information on the current demand and likely trends in relation to STEM opportunities.
Understanding the Gatsby Benchmarks
The Gatsby Benchmarks are a framework of 8 guidelines that define the best careers provision in schools and colleges. The English Careers Strategy is built around them, and they make a great place to start for planning or improving your programme.
This website provides detailed explanations of the 8 benchmarks, along with practical tips and examples of best practice can be found in the Careers and Enterprise Company’s toolkits. There are three versions; a toolkit for schools, for colleges and for Special Educational Needs and Disabilities.
Good Careers Guidance
The Gatsby Benchmarks are a framework of 8 guidelines that define the best careers provision in schools and colleges. The English Careers Strategy is built around them, and they make a great place to start for planning or improving your programme.
This website provides an overview of the 8 benchmarks with guidance, and case studies from schools and colleges implementing them.
My World of Work: Support for Teachers
This website provides tools and support for teachers in Scotland who are linking curriculum learning to careers.
Support for college lecturers in Scotland can be found here.
Give yourself the edge: How to do great employer engagement
This guide is for senior leaders and teachers in schools and colleges who would like to understand more about employer partnership. It looks at how to build a partnership with an employer, different levels of commitment that the partnership can take, how to develop a partnership enabled culture and provides top tips throughout on building your own effective employer partnership.
STEM employability skills
This STEM Learning resource collection aims to support STEM Ambassadors to highlight the top 10 employability skills to young people, with examples of activities and discussions to support young people to develop these skills in either school, college or other settings. The overview of the Top 10 employability skills is available here.
A Teacher's Guide - Linking careers to the STEM curriculum
This guide is aimed at teachers of science, design and technology, computing, engineering and mathematics and those who are passionate about providing STEM career experiences. It offers immediate ideas to try, longer term solutions and resource recommendations.