Career TGR.

Coming in 2021...

Career TGR represents a unique opportunity to bridge the divide between youth unemployment and global employment growth areas in the Australian states, territories and regions that are the most in need.  This approach aligns with World Economic Forum (Jobs of Tomorrow), Australian National Career Education Strategy (Future Ready: A student focused National Career Education Strategy), Alice Springs (Mparntwe) Education Declaration, Australian Curriculum, and Australian state and territory curriculum frameworks.
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The opportunity to partner with world leading STEM education and sport for social change organisations such as TGR Foundation who have established, evaluated and proven blended (face to face and online) training and delivery methods and resources that Australian teachers have the opportunity to modify for their regional contexts through a co-design process with these partners is an innovative but proven concept in the USA.
 
This program will use that innovative but proven approach to achieve improved employment outcomes for youth in the areas of most need in Australia, with the opportunity to scale the program for national growth in reach and impact using a commercial model.  This is a unique and engaging approach to linking education and training in Australia to global employment growth areas to improve education, employment and economic conditions as defined by the World Economic Forum and identified by the United National Sustainable Development Goals #4 – Quality Education and #8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth.

Purpose.
​​There are more than 580,000 young people (15-24 year olds) in Australia who are not fully engaged in employment or study (12.2% youth unemployment as at February 2020), while employers struggle to find skilled employees.

Career TGR aims to overcome the disconnect between the education and training sector and the needs of employers.

Program Outputs

Five (5) integrated STEM lessons/units of inquiry, co-designed with teachers from the regions of Australia most affected by youth unemployment, co-designed with TGR Foundation, that are aligned to five (5) of the seven (7) career growth areas identified by WEF’s Jobs for Tomorrow report, The Alice Springs (Mparntwe) Education Declaration, Future Ready: A student focused National Career Education Strategy, the Australian Curriculum and states and territory curriculum frameworks.  The five (5) lessons/units of inquiry will be available (online) and free of charge to all Australian teachers, students, parents and carers on the TGR EDU: Explore website.

Program Outcomes

  • Improved preparedness for Australian teachers in areas most affected by youth unemployment to develop and deliver inquiry based STEM resources that are aligned to global employment growth areas.
  • Improved support for Australian teachers in areas most affected by youth unemployment to develop and deliver inquiry based STEM resources that are aligned to global employment growth areas.
  • Improved student enjoyment, engagement and motivation with inquiry based STEM resources that are aligned to global employment growth areas.
  • Improved student understanding of the relevance and benefit of inquiry based STEM learning for their career and employment prospects.
  • Increased future career confidence in students.
  • Teachers see an observable increase in STEM knowledge and skills.
  • Ultimately a reduction in youth unemployment in the areas where participating teachers and schools are based proven through longitudinal studies (across a ten year period) and a randomised control trial (RCT) - beyond the current scope of the program.

National Reach

  • Fifty (50) schools and more than 15,000 Australian students, their teachers, parents and carers using the program resources and methodology by December 2022.
  • Twenty (20) teachers from Australian schools located in the regions most affect by youth unemployment up-skilled to act as advocates and change agents in leading systemic change in STEM education that aligns student learning (skills and knowledge), global employment growth areas, and global and Australian education and economic policies for education, employment and training.
  • National growth potential (scalable) using methodological replication and commercial sponsorship opportunities.