Teach Secondary Issue 14.3

Our education system rightly focuses on academic achievement and career guidance, but we’re missing a crucial stepping stone – teaching students how to bridge the gap between having qualifications and securing opportunities. This isn’t just about CVwriting – it’s about understanding your value in the workplace and knowing how to present it. The solution isn’t complex, but will require systematic change. Schools need support in delivering consistent, professional guidance on job applications. Online workshops and resources can help scale this support, ensuring every student has access to quality information – not just those in well- resourced schools or who have well-connected parents. Access to job application skills is a hidden barrier that’s rarely discussed. It’s not enough to tell young people ‘they can be anything’ – they need the practical tools to get their foot in the door. Nor is it sufficient to show themCV templates and tips. If they think they have nothing to write on their CV, those won’t help. But bymaking such skills part of every student’s education, we can level the playing field and ensure that talent and potential – not background or connections – determine their success in the jobmarket. It’s time we recognised that teaching young people how to secure opportunities is just as important as preparing them to excel once they get there. Graeme Jordan is a job application and CV consultant; for more information, visit graemejordan.com TRENDING Our pickof the recent resources and launches teachersmight find useful... UNPACKING THE ‘WHY’ Reframing Behaviour is a new, subscription-based training programme drawing on latest developments within neuroscience to help teachersmanage disruptive behaviour. Key to this is its focus on exploring the origins of such behaviour, and strategies for guiding students out of a ‘fight’, ‘flight’ or ‘freeze’ response. tinyurl.com/ts143-LL3 SPEAKING YOUR LANGUAGE LGfL – The National Grid for Learning has translated the DfE’s statutory Keeping Children Safe in Education (Part 1) guidance into 13 different languages, including Arabic, Bengali, simplified/ traditional Chinese, Gujarati, Polish, Punjabi and Romanian. The translations are all available now for viewing and download fromthe organisation’s website. kcsietranslate.lgfl.net Job application skills Under the radar Got a great learning idea? Email editor@teachsecondary.com or tweet us at @teachsecondary TEACHER WALKTHROUGH ZEPH BENNETT IS A PE TEACHER AND SCHOOLACHIEVEMENT LEADERWITH 25 YEARS’ TEACHING EXPERIENCE; YOU CAN FINDMORE OF HIS EDUCATIONAL ILLUSTRATIONS BY FOLLOWING@ZEPHBENNETT.BSKY.SOCIAL 5 ADAPTIVE TEACHING STRATEGIES ZEPH BENNETT HIGHLIGHTS SOME FURTHER CLASSROOM STRATEGIES FOR SUPPORTING STUDENTS WITH DIFFERING NEEDS 1 ADAPTED EQUIPMENT Altering the length of a badminton racket handle can make hitting the shuttlecock easier – adapt to students’ movement by using different equipment 2 KEYWORDS You can help to prevent common misconceptions and spelling errors by providing a glossary or knowledge organiser containing a series of keywords 3 STARTER SENTENCES Longer questions can be made easier to construct with sentence starters for each paragraph or example within the question 4 CHUNKING Giving students a large piece of text can cause cognitive load issues for some; breaking down text into smaller, more manageable chunks will reduce the burden on their working memory 5 REDUCE THE PACE All students learn at a different pace; knowing when to pause or slow down so students can keep up is the most important adaptive teaching strategy of all 79 teachwire.net/secondary L E A R N I N G L A B