Education & Career Guidance

What is Education and Career Guidance (ECG)?

Education and Career Guidance (ECG) helps students develop a sense of purpose in life. By nurturing self-awareness and self-directedness for lifelong learning, ECG helps students develop a growth mindset, adaptability and a resilient attitude to embrace future opportunities and appreciate the value of all occupations.

How can Parents contribute?

1. Contribute as Industry Partners (Sign up here)

2. Contribute by guiding their children by having conversations about their V.I.P.S (Values, Interests, Personalities and Strengths)

Tip #1 Discovering Purpose

Guide your child to make informed decisions and own them.  Help them understand their Values, Interests, Personality, and Skills (VIPS) and the larger industry landscape in a deeper manner through the MySkillsFuture Portal.

Set aside time and space where you can speak with, listen to and understand your child’s thoughts and feelings. Use the following questions to encourage your child to find out more about themselves.

Conversation Starters

• Which industries and occupations are you curious about?

• What is important to you in your future career?

• How do you plan to go about achieving your aspirations?

Tip #2 Exploring Opportunities

Exploring education and career pathways with them

• Encourage your child to find out more about further education pathways and the world of work. Encourage your child to participate in meaningful engagements with different communities, participate in a wide range of experiences such as career workshops, fairs, learning journeys to industries, internships or work experience programmes.

Conversation Starters

• Which educational institutions are you curious to find out more about?

• How will they help you achieve your aspirations?

• What research have you done on the industries or careers you are interested in?

• How do you think you can find out more about the education or career pathways you are interested in?

Tip #3 Staying Relevant

Embrace lifelong learning and develop your child’s future-ready skills

Encourage your child to continuously pursue opportunities for learning. Learning does not occur only in school, but throughout life. Journey with your child through triumphs and challenges in their education and career journey. SkillsFuture Skills Framework is one good resource to understand the various industries and related skills and competencies.

Conversation Starters

• What are the opportunities for continual learning and growth in the education and career pathways you are interested in?

• Industries and careers constantly face changes. How can you prepare yourself to enter into the world of work?

• What are some skills and competencies which would prepare you for the ever- changing future?

How you can encourage your child?

• Reflect with your child, on meaningful experiences, such as transitions, setbacks and achievements.

• Share your personal experiences where mistakes and failures have been opportunities to build your resilience and personal growth.

• Encourage them to document experiences, skills and accomplishments regularly, to help your child chart out their own process of lifelong learning and personal growth.

• Advise your child on how to tap on setbacks as opportunities for further growth and help them identify activities and projects that will help develop future-ready skills.

• This resource has been adapted from MOE “Journeying with Our Children, Supporting Their Aspirations” for Parents of Tampines Secondary School Students.  The full document contains further resources on ECG services and support from primary and secondary schools.

ECG in Tampines Secondary School

In Tampines Secondary School, our school vision is to grow our students to be a Learner, Thinker and Leader. In this VUCA world, some jobs which are relevant today may not exist in future. To overcome the evolving job landscape, we hope to equip our students to be learners with the Growth Mindset who seeks continuous improvement and work towards academic and co-curricular excellence.

We aim to create the learning experiences for students to be able to inspire self-discovery of knowledge. Through our ECG programmes, we hope that students are able to demonstrate initiative and work systematically towards their education and career targets. We would like to cultivate our students to be reflective in connecting their learning with the world around them and relate their learning to the real world. These skills would be useful to the students when they join the future workforce.

ECG Outcomes

• nurture student’s self-awareness and self-directedness for lifelong learning.

• enable students to explore education and career options, by equipping them with accurate and comprehensive information.;

• help students develop a growth mindset and a resilient attitude to embrace future opportunities, and appreciate all occupations across society; and

• create opportunities for students to build positive connections with the community (such as teachers, ECG counsellors, parents, industry partners), to develop an appreciation for different career pathways.

Level Focus

To achieve the outcomes outlined above:

Sec 1 will focus on Education and self-awareness to explore their individual strengths which can be matched to plausible careers,

Sec 2 will focus on Education and career exploration of these strengths and exercise sound reasoning in their Sec 3 Subject choices,

Sec 3 will focus on Education and career planning and

Sec 4/5 on Education and career decision making.

Careers Day for Secondary 4 and 5 Tampinesians

Day X Programme (Day of Career Exploration) for Secondary 2 and 3 Tampinesians

Experience ITE Programme for Secondary 2, 3 and 4 Tampinesians

APLM (Applied Learning Modules) at TPSS for Secondary 3 Tampinesians

Visit to WorldSkills ASEAN ECG Fair at Suntec City for Secondary 2 Tampinesians

Useful Links