Workplays: Work and Career Play Scripts and Activities for Secondary Students - Softcover

Edwards, Hazel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1923116312 ISBN 13: 9781923116313

Publisher: Amba Press, 2024

Synopsis

Workplays provides school to work transition play scripts and activities for secondary school students. This approach provides students with a realistic understanding of a variety of professions, trades and careers, fosters collaboration between subjects and develops essential skills for the workplace world.

This second edition of Hazel Edwards' well-loved and used teacher resource, highlights the practicality of integrating plays and simulated workplace experiences in schools in addition, or in lieu of work placements. Multiple play scripts, activities and discussion points provide for all level of reading skills. The book advocates for the value of incorporating simulated workplace experiences, offering a practical and inclusive skills approach to preparing students for future work.

About this title

About the Author

Educator-author Hazel Edwards has written books for children, teachers and adults. Her best-known publication is the children's picture book classic There's a Hippopotamus on Our Roof Eating Cake (1980), now a series of picture books, classroom play scripts, a musical stage production and a short movie. This book is the latest addition to her series of play scripts and activities for educators, alongside the titles Issues and Grief and Loss in Schools.

Edition details

• Publisher: Amba Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1923116312
• ISBN 13: 9781923116313
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 127