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Working out what comes next
Can do: Explores real paths — courses, careers, training — and understands what each requires and costs.
Why it matters
Grade 10 choices constrain Grade 11 and 12 options. Exploring now is far cheaper than discovering a missing prerequisite in senior year.
What it looks like when it's wobbly
No idea what they want, treated as a problem, so the conversation is avoided until it's urgent.
⏱️ Two-minute check
"Name two paths that interest you and one thing each would require of you."
Solid looks like: Two real options with actual requirements attached.
The full activity for this topic · 40 minutes
Three Paths, Real Numbers
- 1Pick three genuinely different paths — including one that isn't a four-year degree.
- 2For each: entry requirements, subjects needed, cost, typical earnings, day-to-day reality.
- 3Find one person doing each and read or watch an honest account of the work.
- 4Check whether current subject choices keep each path open.
- 5Identify one thing to try this year — a course, a volunteering slot, a summer job.
If it's too hard
Two paths, requirements only.
If it's too easy
Interview someone in a field of interest with prepared questions.
Say this
"You don't have to decide. You do have to keep the doors open — which subjects do that?"