The Be Real Game Facilitator's Kit

The Facilitator's Kit is the main resource and starting point for schools implementing The Be Real Game career and life skills programme for students aged 14 to 16.

About the Be Real Game

In The Be Real Game students learn how a person's career is based on the everyday choices and decisions an individual makes. These choices/decisions begin in childhood and encompass every facet of life, including family, friends, education, recreational activities, lifestyle choices, community involvement and dealing with labour market conditions.

As the students role-play various employment, unemployment and family situations, they explore the importance of transferable skills, self-knowledge, lifelong learning and the primacy of career planning to achieving satisfying, fulfilling lives.They are exposed to dozens of occupational possibilities and are actively encouraged to pursue and realise their dreams. Young people benefit by recognising and appreciating the pathway options open to them and becoming more confident about making decisions that will have an impact on their future lives.

The core activities take 19 to 24 hours of class time to complete. Optional activities provide opportunities to involve other teachers, parents, guardians and people from the local community.

Objectives 

The Be Real Game enables students to:

• discover unique personal skills and talents;
• build, reinforce and maintain a positive self-concept;
• see how school subjects and extracurricular interests are directly related to future life and work roles, and how furthering knowledge and skills opens doors to new opportunities;
• explore financial management and budgeting, and appreciate the link between education and training, income and lifestyle aspects such as time available for family, community and leisure;
• practise a range of teamwork, problem-solving, decision-making and communication skills, and develop effective work habits in multiple life/work roles;
• explore diverse work and community roles and discover what aspects of these roles bring most satisfaction;
• appreciate the links and find a balance between work and broader life roles, including the dynamics of building, living in and contributing to a family and community;
• explore the impact of chance events and learn how it feels to lose a job through no fault of one's own, and how to convert adversity into opportunity;
• develop work search and creation skills, and effective personal marketing and time management skills; and
• make judicious choices regarding school and other aspects of life, feel more in control of decisions, and move positively and with enthusiasm towards their personal future.

 Other features

The Be Real Game:

• includes specific learning outcomes for all sessions;
• includes many optional activities for use at the discretion of teachers;
• is easily localised and linked to community resources and realities;
• links school subjects directly to life and work roles;
• can easily be linked to other existing career development resources;
• can be team taught by several subject teachers;
• lends itself to involvement of peer facilitators; and
• provides "work experience" through three life/work roles for each student.

Click here to download a full-colour programme brochure, which includes a detailed programme summary (PDF 6 pages 459kb).

Click here for information on the Australian pilot of The Be Real Game.