The presentation is about career counselling and how we as future teachers want to assist learners in achieving their dream careers. The audience that we targeted was parents, teachers and learners from grade 8 to 12.

1. Career Counselling
METHODOLOGY OF SCHOOL GUIDANCE AND SUPPORT
25 AUGUST 2015

2. Subject choices (grade 8-9)
 1. Why teach on subject choice?
Many of our learners get confused when they get to the high
school level, firstly because the environment has changed and
so are the subjects to learn. They face problems with the many
subjects that they get introduced to and all the new sorts of
things. So that is the PROBLEM. This is why I chose to address this
and assist learners to be better at their own education. Studies
show that learners often chose wrong subjects because of the
following reasons:

3. Reasons why learners choose wrong
subjects:
 1. Peer pressure
 2. Lack of information
 3. Influence they get at home
 4. Influence from the teachers
 5. The school structure (what is available to them)
 AND THAT IS WHY WE HERE TODAY.

4. How do we solve the problem?
 Because there are many spheres involved in the learner’s life, we need to
address those people and give them clearance on how to actually help
the learners. These other spheres are: parents and teachers.
 Teachers responsibility:
Teachers play a vital role in what learners turn to be and what learners aspire
to be in future, this is because teachers spend more time with these learners
(a day to day interaction) and they know them more than parents. They
know their abilities, skills, knowledge level and interest and their motivation.
 So what should teachers do?

5. Continuation …
 Teachers should ensure that learners chose the right subjects that
suits the learners’ capability and skills, they should advice leaners
looking at their end year reports of grade 9. For example if a
learner is not good in natural science and mathematics while in
grade 8 and 9, the teacher can advise the learner to go to the
other streams rather than the science stream.
 Teachers have the influence and can change these learners
because learners do listen to them. So if teachers do this, we can
have a generation that is happy with their school life and their
future careers

6. Subject streams that teachers and
learners should know:
 We have four different streams that teachers and learners should
know about. These all four streams accommodate for different
learners’ ability, interest, values, skills, personality and
understanding.
 The science stream
It includes subjects as: Physical Science, Mathematics, Life sciences,
and Geography.
This stream requires leaners to be good in their natural science,
mathematics and a little part in history while they are still in their grade
8 and 9.

7. Continuation…
 The commerce stream
It includes subjects as: Economics, Accounting, Business Management,
mathematics literacy and or Tourist.
This stream requires learners to be good in their EMS and their mathematics while
they are still in grade 8 and 9.
 The general stream
It includes subjects as History, Geography, Life science, Tourism, Agriculture, and
mathematics or mathematics literacy. Basically this is a mixture of subjects that a
learner thinks they can handle and pass well. It gives the freedom of choice.
This stream does not specifically needs certain master of anything, if you master a
variety of subjects in grade 8 and 9, then you can chose any of your interested
subjects.

8. Continuation…
 The art stream
 Firstly learners need to know that this stream is not catered for in every
school, it is only some of the school that offers it.
 It includes every type of art one would like to do, form visual art to musical
art; it has a variety of subjects depending on what a learner wants to
major on.
 This stream requires learners to be very artistic and creative; if learners
master their arts and culture in grade 8 and 9 then they are the right
candidates for the stream.

9. • Parent’s responsibility:
 Parents play a very important role in the learners’ subject choice,
this is because learners hear from their parents and take orders
from them in most cases. Parents have their own dreams and
wishes for their children, which at most is different from what the
learner can do and want. So we plead with parent to not choose
for learners on what they should be, but support their abilities and
encourage them on what they are good at. For example some
parents want their children to be doctors because they maybe
also doctors, but problem will be if the learner is not good in
science; that way a learner fails in her/his schooling. So we urge
parents to advice and accept learners as they are with their
abilities and skills.

10. What parents must know: Multiple
intelligent by Howard Gardner
 Firstly Howard Gardner speaks about multiple intelligences and how they
are all of vital importance to the world. He says they all contribute to the
world and if we lack one it would not fully function.
 So what are we saying? All learners are different and function in the
different way, so when choosing their subjects, parents should let learners
be what they want to be and add value to the world with their
intelligences.
 Howard Gardner of Harvard has identified seven distinct intelligences. This
theory has emerged from recent cognitive research and "documents the
extent to which students possess different kinds of minds and therefore
learn, remember, perform, and understand in different ways," according to
Gardner (1991).

11. Demonstration

12. Conclusion
 Now what are we saying with all this?
 Let learners be what they want to be and choose what they can be able
to do.
 No peer preasure, no family influence or school problems.
Let us be the light to the
learners!!

13. Introduction
 The broad topic of our group is career counselling. And my sub-topic is
minimum requirements. These minimum requirements I will be talking about
are those that the learners have to take note of in terms of applying to the
universities. As our broad topic is concerned, my target audience is the
grade 10-12 learners. A lot of learners are lost or rather confused when it
comes to going to the universities and applying for a certain course. They
tend to think that anyone can be accepted regardless their matric results

14. Intro Continuation
 As teachers we constantly remind them on how important it is to get good
grade because if one does not have good grades then it becomes a
problem when it comes to applying to the universities as they themselves
have their own way of calculating the APS scores. To give you an
understanding of what it means by APS, I will explain the abbreviation and
give you guys examples of how different universities calculate their APS
scores for one to qualify and apply in that particular university.

15. APS Abbreviation
 A lot of learners tend to ignore the fact that the various universities use the
APS in order for one to be accepted in a particular course. This APS stands
for:
 A – Admission
 P - Points
 S – Scores
 To start with. I will start with NMMU (The Nelson Mandela Metropolitan
University).

16. Nelson Mandela Metropolitan
University
 There are various universities out there that one can go and apply to,
however I will be focusing on one university because of time, and that is
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan university
 Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University is a South African tertiary
education institution with its main administration in the coastal city of Port
Elizabeth
 According to Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, . If one takes more
than 7 subjects, they will have to select the 7 best subjects to calculate the
APS. If one’s APS does not meet the required admission score, but fall with
the testing band, one will automatically referred for testing.

17. Nmmu Minimum Requirements
 This table refers to the minimum entry requirements and explains how well
one need to do in other school subjects to meet the minimum entry
requirements for each type of qualification
Qualification Minimum Entry Requirement
Higher certificate Pass on the NCS
Diploma Pass NCS with, an achievement rating of 3
(40-49)
Bachelor Degree Pass NCS with an achievement rating of 4
(50-59)

18. APS Calculations
 The table and information below explain on how one can calculate their
APS
NCS Level NCS% APS APS%
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
80-100%
70-79%
60-69%
50-59%
40-49%
30-39%
0-29%
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
0
90-100%
80-89%
70-79%
60-69%
50-59%
40-49%
30-39%
0-29%

19. Example
 To enroll for the B.com (Accounting for Chartered Accountants). You need
an Admission point score (APS) of at least 38 as well as 4 subjects from the
designated list and a pass in Mathematics on at least level 5 (60-69).
Matric Subjects NSC% Level APS points
Allocated
English 70% 6 6
African language 80% 7 7
Mathematics
Accounting
Life Orientation
Physical
sciences
Life Sciences
69
55
60
74
81
5
5
5
6
7
5
5
5
6
7

20. Example Continuation
 According to the table above, this student has met the minimum
admission requirements for the B.com (Accountancy for Chartered
Accountants).

21. Conclusion
 These various universities have different ways of calculating their APS.
University of Johannesburg and Witwatersrand to name the few normally
divide the life orientation mark by 2 and take the divided mark. But as
Nmmu is concerned, they do not divide their life orientation by 2. therefore
I urge you boys and girls that when you reach the stage of applying, you
make a brief research about these universities.

22. Reference List
 http://archivedpublicwebsite.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=15182
&subid=15182