| Copyright (c) 2010 Ianson | | | | own interests as they became older and they would |
| Here is the first in a number of articles that consider | | | | most likely lean towards what they are best at.This |
| the link between child development, career choice | | | | highly progressive approach could be further |
| and the impact on the macro economy. This first | | | | extended in school with a more flexible curriculum and |
| article considers the impact of early years education | | | | earlier attempts to identify potential career paths and |
| on the career choices individuals make.What's the | | | | encourage relevant learning that would support the |
| best job for me? Perhaps this is actually the question | | | | development of knowledge, skills and qualifications of |
| you need to have been asking when you were about | | | | interest to the child at an earlier age. If this proposal |
| 8 years old, or should your parents and teachers | | | | seems a little crazy, try asking school leavers and |
| been trying to encourage your efforts at school | | | | those entering university what career path they |
| towards your future employment. It appears often | | | | would like to follow and what it involves, |
| the link between education and employment is | | | | unfortunately you will find many of them have no |
| forged far too late in our development, would a | | | | idea of what sort of job or career path they wish to |
| short time digging a hole or stacking shelves in a | | | | follow, or what is really involved in doing any |
| supermarket, or even worse several days of | | | | particular job on a day by day basis.Perhaps the |
| enforced daytime television a couple of times a year | | | | stance you should be taking belongs to building |
| from about age 10 help kids understand that the | | | | individuals with a rounded education and a good |
| effort you put in now may well dictate what you | | | | selection of transferable skills that would let them |
| spend virtually all your adult life doing to earn your | | | | move from one occupation to another, thus giving us |
| living. Perhaps this is too radical a notion, but | | | | a highly flexible workforce, perhaps it could be argued |
| something about the way we handle developing | | | | that is really where we are now. This idea is all very |
| young people is seriously wrong, we leave far too | | | | well, but can an advertising executive jump to a new |
| much to chance.If we start from the beginning by | | | | career as a doctor, yes but with some difficulty, and |
| looking at the stimulus we are given as preschool | | | | if you call 7 years of education a jump. The real |
| children by our parents we can often see a bias | | | | problem is the assessment of intelligence and ability |
| based upon the interests of the parents in what we | | | | and an early age is just too haphazard, teachers |
| are given to play with or be entertained by. The child | | | | have a vague appreciation of different children's |
| that is given a ball to play with in the garden and the | | | | intelligence and abilities, but anyone that has gone |
| parents spend time having a kick about or playing | | | | through teacher training which is honest will admit |
| catch will encourage a healthy child that due to | | | | they are hardly experts on intelligence and the |
| association with pleasure will respond well to sport, | | | | potential of children. In fact many individuals will show |
| but will that child become an architect or a musician? | | | | you of a teacher that inspired them and gave them |
| In a perfect world each parent would be provided an | | | | self belief, unfortunately many more will explain of |
| instruction manual and set of equipment to make | | | | teachers that put them down, lowered their self |
| certain every child is positively exposed to every | | | | esteem and set them on a path of low achievement |
| stimulus possible to encourage interest in all types of | | | | and low expectation, thanks Miss! |
| activity, this would enable the child to identify their | | | | |