npower What's Your Goal - Teaching Resources

Teaching Resources

Through the power of football, help your students kick off their careers, develop their employability skills and experience what it’s like to apply for a job by using our three lesson plans and resources.

Lesson plans and resources

Lesson Plan One: Enter the What’s Your Goal? competition (PDF)

Use this stand alone plan so your students can enter Competition 1 – Spend an amazing day with a football mentor, by identifying the job role they wish to apply for, assessing their skills and writing a convincing application form.

You are welcome to adapt this lesson plan if you wish your students to enter Competition 2 – Work Experience Placement.

Resource 1: Video clip - summary of 2012's competition winners (YouTube)
Resource 1a: Video clip – What’s Your Goal? 2013 launch video (YouTube)
Resource 2: Choose your position (PDF)
Resource 3: Pack of 11 Job cards (PDF)
Resource 4: Notes and Ideas for My Job Application (PDF)
Resource 5: Strengths and Weaknesses in Job Applications (PDF)
Resource 6: Application form (PDF)
Resource 7: Application certificate (PDF)

Please familiarise yourself with the terms and conditions that apply to the ‘Spend an Amazing Day with a mentor’ competition

Using the students’ work from Lesson Plan 1, use the following lesson plans to further develop their knowledge, skills and understanding of football’s ‘world of work’.

Lesson Plan Two: Football’s more than the Game (PDF)

Investigating The Football League as an organisation and identifying and understanding a selection of job roles and a ‘typical’ working day for these professionals.

Resource 8: The Football League History and Interesting Facts (PDF)
Resource 9: ‘Day in the Life of’ (PDF)
Resource 10: Hour by Hour Job Comparison (PDF)
Resource 11: Investigating Work Roles (PDF)

Lesson Plan Three: Interview skills (PDF)

Experiencing what it’s like to be interviewed for their selected job or to be the interviewer and giving feedback to the candidate on their interview.

Resource 3: Pack of 11 Job cards (PDF)
Resource 12: Interview Skills (PDF)

Curriculum links

These lesson plans link to:

PSHE: Economic Wellbeing & Financial Capability - 1.1 Careers (KS3 and KS4)

Understanding that everyone has a ‘career’.
Developing a sense of personal identity for career progression.
Understanding the qualities, attitudes and skills needed for employability.

OCR GCSE in Applied Business (Single Award) and OCR GCSE in Applied Business (Double Award)

Unit A241 Business in action
3.1.3 Business organisation - how businesses organise themselves
3.1.6 Employers/employees - how they operate in enterprising ways, develop their working relationships and meet their various rights and responsibilities
Unit A243 Working in business
3.3.2 Job roles - key activities and responsibilities
Unit A244 Business and you
3.4.2 The recruitment process
3.4.3 The selection process
3.4.6 Promotion - training, skills, competencies required