Today’s Objectives• To read and write about careers and jobs• To start building our own autobiographical text

Overall Objectives • English language communication skills are supported

• Participants find the series of workshops relevant

• Participants are encouraged to ‘take risks’ with language

• Participants’ pre-existing English classroom and education-focused vocabulary are built-upon

WORKSHOP 1 of WEEK 2: JOBS, CAREERS, WORKING

Kate Elliottnewerapedagogy@gmail.comMonday the 29th of July, 2013

Today we will read and write about careers!

Work – can be a verb or nounOccupations – general termCareers – within a field, e.g. EducationJobs – refers to you role

first-person autobiographyreading and comprehension task

A short introduction to me (Kate)

I was born in Melbourne, raised between Melbourne and Hobart, and completed my first degree at the Australian National University in Canberra. Later on, I studied towards my Diploma of Teaching, Master of Teaching, and more recently my Master of Education Policy (International) at The University of Melbourne. I have taught English, Geography and Social Sciences at an elite girls’ grammar school and also at a school with many refugee students. I have also worked briefly in Hungary (2009, 2012) and India (2012) as a guest teacher, and have studied education systems in Berlin, London and Copenhagen (2012). Before becoming a qualified teacher, I was involved in complimentary education at a French-English school in Canberra, worked for four years as an autism therapist, and taught English to three year-olds in Italy and Switzerland (2006). I arrived in UB in May, and I am very happy to be working with you over the next three weeks.

Questions about Kate / this text1. Where did Kate live before university? (closed q.)

2. Where (here meaning ‘in which countries’) has Kate worked?

3. What are Kate’s teaching subjects? (closed q.)

4. Why do you think Kate is working in Mongolia? (open q.)

5. Do you have any questions for Kate after reading about her? (open q.)

about different jobs

Job titles and verbs that help to explain role requirements

What do teachers do?(let’s ‘brainstorm’ some verbs related to teaching!)

heart (feeling)

head (knowing)

bodies (doing)

Job titles

GROUP ONE GROUP TWO GROUP THREEclassroom teacher business owner fruit pickerhead teacher engineer furniture makerprincipal stay-at-home parent architectnurse physiotherapist cartoon animatordoctor beautician singershopkeeper dog trainer musicianpolitician circus performer policeman / police womanfarmer athlete TV show hostastronaut cattle herder music video dancersalesperson veterinarian personal assistantair steward(ess) mayor grounds keeperactor volunteer security guard

*OPTIONAL HOMEWORK*: what is the Mongolian word for each of these jobs?

Reading and responding to the biography of a famous person

(here: Julia Gillard)

Let’s read together about Julia GillardJulia Gillard, former Prime Minister of Australia, was born in Wales in 1961. As a red-haired young ‘lass’, she migrated to Australia with her parents when she was five years old. She performed very well at school, and eventually studied Law and Arts at The University of Melbourne. She focused on her career, and eventually she became a partner at the legal firm, Slater and Gordon. She began her political career in 1996, and in 2006 became deputy head of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). She became the Minister for Education in 2007 and replaced Kevin Rudd (the current Prime Minister) as Prime Minister in 2010, when factions in the ALP led her to challenge Mr Rudd for party leadership. She became Australia’s first female prime minister on September 14, 2010. She was also the first non-married Prime Minister, and she does not have children, though her partner Tim does. On the day of the Mongolian presidential election this year, she was challenged for the leadership by Kevin Rudd – the man whom she had replaced. This was because the majority of key ministers in her party thought that the ALP would not be re-elected with her as the party leader. Gillard has now resigned from politics.

Julia Gillard as a female Prime Minister

As the first female Prime Minister of Australia, Julia Gillard ‘broke the glass ceiling’. For a while, both the Prime Minister and the Queen’s Representative (Quentin Bryce) were female. Gina Rinehart, the richest person in Australia, is also a woman.

But this does not mean that all women feel that they have achieved equality with men yet in Australia. Women doing the same jobs as men generally earn less money. Some say this is because, with children, they are less-able to work extra hours. Others say that it is because women are less likely to ask for pay rises.

Sometimes, women report that they are sexually harassed at work, or are treated badly because of what they look like. Many newspaper articles presented Julia Gillard as having a very big nose and a large bottom. A few protesters who did not like her party’s policies called her a ‘witch’ or ‘bitch’, and one radio presenter said on national radio that her partner, Tim, was ‘gay’.

Towards the end of her term, she was accused of ‘playing the gender card’. This means asking for sympathy because she is a woman. But she did not ask to be treated differently because she is female. She simply wanted to be judged for her politics - not her sex (being female).

Some events during Julia Gillard’s Prime Ministership provided a reminder that it can still be hard for women to work in the traditionally ‘male’ domain of politics.

Questions about the text

Closedi) Was Julia Gillard born in Australia?ii) How many female Prime Ministers has Australia had?iii) What did she study at university?iv) Which political party did she work for until recently?Openiv) Do you think that Gillard was treated differently because she is a woman?v) Why do you think her parents moved to Australia?vi) Do you think that Gillard is a good role-model for young women? Why?

THE END See you all tomorrow!