Empowering Student Employment: A Path to Co-Creation

Empowering Student Employment: A Path to Co-Creation

Learning Objective

At the end of the lesson, you will be able to develop and enhance student employment initiatives that foster students as partners and co-creators while aligning with institutional goals and student needs.

What do you already know about student employment initiatives?

Understanding Student Employment

Defining the concept of student employment and its significance in academic institutions.

Enhancing Student Employment Initiatives

Strategies for creating or enhancing current student employment initiatives to empower students as partners and co-creators.

Alignment with Institutional Goals

Ensuring that student employment initiatives align with the overarching goals and vision of Cardiff University.

Meeting Student Needs

Identifying and addressing the specific needs of students in relation to employment opportunities at the university.

Fostering Co-Creation

Promoting a culture of co-creation where students actively contribute to the development of employment initiatives.

Advice to Internal Stakeholders

Strategies for communicating the importance of student co-creation and aligning employment initiatives with institutional goals to university staff and faculty.

Advice to External Stakeholders

Guidance for engaging external partners and employers in supporting student employment initiatives at Cardiff University.

Write down 3 things you learned in this lesson.

Have students enter three things they learned in this lesson. With this they can indicate their own learning efficiency of this lesson.

Write down 2 things you want to know more about.

Here, students enter two things they would like to know more about. This not only increases involvement, but also gives them more ownership.

Ask 1 question about something you haven't quite understood yet.

The students indicate here (in question form) with which part of the material they still have difficulty. For the teacher, this not only provides insight into the extent to which the students understand/master the material, but also a good starting point for the next lesson.