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What is Career & Life Planning?
Queen’s College Career & Life Planning Education Team
What is Career & life Planning?
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It is an ongoing and lifelong process for personal fulfillment, with different foci at different stages of one’s life.
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CLP is not merely a remedial or advisory service for students when they need to make subject or career choices.
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It helps foster students’ self‐understanding, personal planning, goal setting and reflective thinking.
Objectives
Our objectives: to help students acquire
Attitude
learning experience about work
Skill
leadership, creativity, interviewing skill …
Knowledge
about further education and workplace
Resources required for implementation of Career and Life Planning
Resources required
 Employment of a temporary teacher and a teaching assistant
 Financial support
 Internal and external supporting networks
Financial resource
Use of CLP grant to
employ
Temporary
teacher
Teaching
assistant
Other financial resources:
Morrison Fund and ECA Fund
Visits
Workshops /
Talks
Publications
Use of CLP Grant to employ

a teaching assistant
 Preparing materials (such as PowerPoint, word documents, etc) and
technical support corresponding to activities related to CLP
 Photocopying, printing, photographing, inputting data, filing
 Providing assistance in indoor and outdoor activities such as workplace
visits, talks for students; and
 Other duties assigned by the school such as invigilation and lesson
substitution
 a temporary teacher
to reduce the workload of Careers teachers
CLP Team as coordinator
Internal network
Subject Departments
Function Teams
Class Teachers
Liberal Studies Department
Counseling Team
Junior English Department
Civic
Education
Team
Clubs & Associations
Other Stakeholders
Form
Social Services Club
Old Boys’ Associations
Senior Aviation
Form
Club
Parents‐
teachers’ Associations
Strategies / activities carried out by subject departments, function teams, graduates, Old Boys, PTA, NGOs, outside service providers and local universities
publications
individual counseling Service
project work, interview practice
Strategies / Activities
parents‐teachers’ meetings
job shadowing, internship , mentorship
career visits, talks,
workshops, sharing, career expos
Junior Achievement Company Programme
Responsible teams & strategies / activities
English Language Department
 Workshops on preparing Self‐account & Personal Statement (S. 5 ‐ S. 6)
 Practicing interviewing skills (S. 4 ‐ S. 6)
Responsible teams & strategies / activities
Liberal Studies Department
 Project work related to careers (S. 1)
Responsible teams & strategies / activities
Panel Heads of Subject Departments &
Careers Counsellors
 Sharing session on curriculum, assessment and subject choices (S. 3)
Responsible teams & strategies / activities
Academic Committee
 Parents‐teachers’ Meetings (S. 1, S. 3 & S. 6)
Responsible teams & strategies / activities
Career and Life Planning Team & Careers Counsellors
 Publications: Newsletters & Booklets (S. 3 ‐ S. 6)
Responsible teams & strategies / activities
Career and Life Planning Team  Junior Achievement Company Prgramme (S. 4 ‐ S. 5)
Responsible teams & strategies / activities
Career and Life Planning Team & Class teachers
Individual counselling service on:
 selection of subject electives (S. 3)
 JUPAS application (S. 5 - S. 6)
 prioritization and re-prioritization of programme
choices (S. 6)
Responsible teams & strategies / activities
Civic Education Team
 Talk on studying in Mainland (S. 5 - S. 6)
(Tsing Hua University & Fudan University)
 Talk on studying in Taiwan (S. 5 - S. 6)
Responsible teams & strategies / activities
Counselling Team & Outside Service Providers  ‘Look Inward’ I & II (S. 1 & S. 2)
 ‘Look Outward’ I & II (S. 1 & S. 2)
 ‘Subject choices’ (S. 3)
Responsible teams & strategies / activities
Old Boys’ Association & Parents‐teachers’ Association
 Job Shadowing (S. 4 ‐ S. 6)  Internship (S. 4 ‐ S. 6)
Mentorship Programme (S. 4 ‐ S. 6)  Careers Expo (S. 5)
Responsible Teams & strategies / activities
Graduates
Two sharing sessions on:
 preparation for HKDSE and stress management (S. 6)
 university programmes / university life (S. 5)
Responsible teams & strategies / activities
Rotary Club
 Careers Expo (S. 4)
Responsible teams & strategies / activities
Hok Yau Club
 Talk about local multiple pathways (S. 4)
 Talk about interviewing skills (S. 6)
 Mock Examinations (S. 6)
Responsible teams & strategies / activities
NGOs: St. James Settlement  Career visits (S. 2 & S. 3)
Responsible teams & strategies / activities
Local universities
 Engagement Programmes (S. 2 ‐ S. 6)
 Admission Talks (S. 4 ‐ S. 6)
Responsible teams & strategies / activities
Outside Service Providers: Education USA / Education UK / IDP
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Overseas Study Education Talks (S. 4 ‐ S. 6)
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Overseas Visit: Australia Exchange Tour
(Melbourne High School, University of Sydney, University of Melbourne & Monash University)
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Dr Sutherland (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University) visiting our school to introduce their university programmes and
scholarships
SCHOLARSHIPS
QUEEN’S COLLEGE
Queen’s College Scholarships
Scholarship
Academic
Non -academic
Merits & Financial
needs students
Queen’s College Scholarships
Top ten students in the Each form
Internal
Examination
Academic
First student in each subject
First and second students in each class
10 Progress prizes in each form
Distinction Prize HKDSE
DSE Examination
Senior Morrison, Intermediate Morrison
and Lower intermediate Morrison
Queen’s College Scholarships
Sport
Music, Art and Design
Non Academic
Special talent
Speech, Debating, Translation
Representatives of Hong Kong
(e.g. Mathematics Olympiad, Asian Physics Olympiad,
Odyssey of Mind World Final, HK Cup Diplomatic
Knowledge Contest in China,…)
Queen’s College Scholarships
Head prefect
Contribution to Yellow Dragon
Non-academic Service
Outstanding service in social service
Outstanding conduct & good academic results
Queen’s College Scholarships
Financial
needs
Queen’s College Scholarships
Career & Life Planning:
From the perspective of Student Counsellors
Jeff Tam, Head Career Counsellor
Maximilian Li, Deputy Head Career Counsellor
CLP Team in Queen’s College
 founded in 1984
 student‐based Career Guidance Team  A group of 30 students from S. 4 & S. 5 students (NSS) / S. 4 & S. 6 (CE/AL)
 2014 ‐ 2015 : Careers Guidance Team → Career & Life Planning Education Team
CLP Team in Queen’s College
 Students ‐ as Peer Counsellors
 Collects, updates and disseminates information  further education& Job opportunities
 by various means (Talks, Sharing, Publication, etc.)
 Teachers
 Design teaching materials for class periods conducted at all levels
 Organize various career & life‐planning related activities
Organization
Career Master/ Mistress (Teacher)
Head Career Counsellor
Deputy Head Career Counsellor
Deputy Head Career Counsellor
Team A – Decision (S3)
Deputy Head Career Counsellor
Team B – Newsletters (NSS)
Team C – Divination (S6)
Major Works & Duties (Student Counsellors)
 Regular duties
 Organize talks, sharing & workshops
 Publications on admission information
Regular duties
 Distribution of publications and performing duties at Parents’ Nights (S. 3 & S. 6)
 Reception of representatives from local and overseas institutes (S. 3 & S. 6)
 Counseling services to junior form students such as subject choices (S. 3)
Publications on admission information
F. 3 Subject Choices & Streaming ‐ Decision
 Team A  12 counsellors as editors
 distributed at S3 Parents’ Night
 Subjects Introduction
 Admission Information
 JUPAS introduction
 subject requirements by university faculties
 introduction of variegated pathways
 Sharing by Senior Form  curriculum
 mode of assessment
Students  subject streaming system  subject choice combinations
 tips of effective studying
2014-15 Decision – 118 Pages
2013-14 Decision – 80 Pages
Publications on Admission Information
F. 6 JUPAS Compass & Multiple Pathways ‐ Divination
 Team C
 JUPAS Admission
 12 counsellors as editors
 programme requirements
 distributed at S. 6 Parents' Night
 admission scores
 JUPAS
important dates  local & overseas admission pathways
 QC Graduates’ Statistics
 pathways
 admission scores
2014-15 Divination – 96 Pages
Publications on Admissions, Career & Life Planning Updates / Newsletters  Provides updates on
 DSE curriculum & mode of assessment
(e.g. SBA Amendments & Implementation)
 JUPAS admissions (e.g.: SSSDP in JUPAS)
 Admission requirements & updates
Other Channels for Updates of Admission Information
 Display boards
 Online promotion
Sharing / Talks organized by CLP Team on F. 3 Subject Choices & Streaming
 Life‐Wide Learning Periods
 Sharing by panel heads & student representatives
 subject content & mode of assessment
 subject choice combinations
 Foster S. 3 students on understanding
 subject choices & facts
 experience shared by senior form students on subject combinations
 so as to guide students to consider their subject combinations carefully
Aims of Publications
Coordination
Advisory
Education