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Interpersonal Development and Personal Learning Resources
To open students’ eyes to the opportunities in the TAFE system, teachers could organise guest lecturers from the sector, visits from ex-students, or texts describing successful transition stories. Role models from the same cultural background could be identified. Academic success shouldn’t always be emphasised, but rather success in life and society.TEACHER: Keep tabs on success stories - kids that have gone on to do TAFE courses, kids that have gone to TAFE to do VCE… Those success stories need to be kept and brought back into the system, to hear from one of their own that they’ve done it this way, they’ve followed this path. “This is my story. I made it!”
TEACHER: It’s a change for them to see someone coming in who speaks their language, someone in authority. They’re able to present very balanced views. I think a lot more of that needs to happen…
TEACHER: It’s also good when the speakers aren’t much older than the students. Role models with similar backgrounds. They can come in and say “this is what you can aspire to if you want to.” “This is what life is all about in Australia”, rather than coming from someone like a teacher.