St. Andrews International School Sukhumvit S107 is an international school for Early Years schooling, Primary schooling, and Secondary school. Like many other schools, it prepares schoolchildren for the future, from Nursery to Year 13 and beyond.

Our school is dedicated to ensuring the career-readiness of children under our tutelage and care academics-wise while also training their co-curricular, extra-curricular, and socio-emotional aspects.

We do this through the holistic learning method and the internationally recognised Sixth Form Education (mostly known to Commonwealth nations) for exam preparation like the International Baccalaureate (IB) or Cambridge Pre-U.

There’s a lot of value to explore when it comes to the career readiness programmes available in St. Andrews Sukhumvit that directly influences a child’s job preparedness by their very foundations.

The Value of Career Readiness Programmes

The value of career readiness starts with the foundations laid out by the school in question. We offer solid foundations that can spell a bright future for those under our wing.

Great things start with small beginnings. Growing up, let your children reach early for their dreams. They will face each day like a new challenge or a chance to be better—a chance to become their dream.

It’s all part of our school’s holistic approach to learning. We equally take care of every aspect of the child’s development, which in turn harmonise and assist each other towards unleashing their potential.

We even encourage communication between our teachers and the children’s parents to help the child continue their learning even at home, like it’s second nature for them.

Meanwhile, our readiness programmes also come with a mosaic of classrooms woven with both solid home values and diversity in mind, to give the young minds under our care the viewpoint of them being citizens of the world while retaining their cultural identity and individuality.

Our programmes for career readiness prepare our young learners at any age with the required skills they should have to search for, gain, maintain, and develop as employees who are part of a workforce as defined by Applied Educational Skills.

The Topics of Career Readiness Programmes

Preparing schoolchildren for life after graduation involves in-class instructions and on-the-job training through co-ops, externships, apprenticeships, and internships, particularly when they’re near high school or college age.

Children in Early Years and Primary school, meanwhile, will get foundational academic training to prepare them for the more intermediate STEM subjects of Secondary school.

Career readiness covers topics of immense importance, such as the following.

• Critical thinking

• Communication

• Financial literacy

• Time management

• Stress management

• Emotional intelligence

All this training encourages them to put their skills to practise while picking up on real-world skills outside of what’s been taught in a classroom setting.

The children are groomed to learn the basics then they’ll use what they’ve learned in practical application of things like financial literacy, stress management, emotional intelligence, or all of the things required for “adulting”.

Career readiness programmes are critical and foundational education in schools because the whole point of making children literate and college-ready is to also prepare them for white-collar work as part of the middle class or the elite.

Why Career Readiness Programmes are Critical

Life after college as you start your career starts with giving children the building blocks of literacy, which are further built up in Primary and Secondary schooling.

Vocational, clerical, or unskilled labour can be trained on the spot for a few months by the company. To do more specific or specialised managerial work or highly trained work related to your college degree, requires the college degree and career readiness programmes.

Your specific training in dealing with labour as a general practitioner doctor or specialist surgeon as well as an engineer, architect, or entrepreneur can be supplemented by these programmes.

The skills necessary to navigate the labour force involve general training in time management, stress management, critical thinking, communication, financial literacy, and emotional intelligence.

Career readiness skills are transferable skills relating to employability learned at school level and provides schoolchildren the competitive edge during internships and job interviews.

A career-ready employee showcases job adaptability beyond mere job training present in all companies and involves critical thinking skills that differentiate a good worker from an excellent one.

Current Worldwide Career Readiness Standards

International schools like St. Andrews match their career readiness standards with international-level standards, like how in the U.S., programmes ensuring top-notch career-ready standards are becoming more popular in both the state and national level.

In the current meta of international or Western education, there is a priority to prepare young learners to compete on a global scale, making early career readiness training essential.

The labour world at present requires graduates who are prepared to compete with more than mere basic or literacy skills. They need something extra to prevent slowdown from dealing with the labour force learning curve.

Career readiness programmes cover how to ask the right questions, solve problems, and to think critically to ensure real-world success beyond the theoretical training done in classrooms.

A college degree itself is the broad-strokes foundation of their future labour skills while the career-readiness education fills in the gaps needed for them to adapt to any company environment.

St. Andrews uses global academic standards and assessments that companies can easily implement and follow as part of the career-readiness training of their children.

This prevents them from having to deal with the individual standards of the region, national standards, or international standards in Asia. Going straight for world-class education should cover all these standards in one fell swoop.

How Do Career Readiness Programmes Address Skill Gaps?

The skills gap is the mismatch between the employees’ existing skills and the skills required from them by employers in light of the present competitive scene in the labour force at large.

Many jobseekers who graduate without career-readiness training and education might have to go through growing pains or the inevitable learning curve of having to figure out how to apply theoretical foundational skills on the practical level as a career.

The mismatch comes not from lack of college training, but instead lack of self-motivated application of what was learned that isn’t spoon-fed to them or done on a trial-and-error basis.

The young minds of St. Andrews have that edge of getting practical training and better out-of-the-box critical thinking education that allows them to immediately address that skills gap. They can competitively land jobs because they’re not as “green” as their fellow graduates.

To conclude, our children at St. Andrews Sukhumvit are more career-ready than many other pupils at public or private schools across Thailand or even across Asia as well as the world.

Employers aren’t interested in indulging the growing pains of employees because there are plenty of more experienced employees out there that they could hire over them who’ve figured out how to turn the theoretical into practical work skills and specialties.

Conclusion

Career readiness goes beyond graduating and educational attainment. It’s instead about being prepared for the rigours of work from the start.

The St. Andrews International School Sukhumvit is an advocate of career-readiness training and education to help newly graduated school children turn into college-ready and work-ready employees who can easily adapt into any work environment with little issue.

St. Andrews belongs to the Cognita School Group, a company that operates with schools from all over the world, including Asia, Europe, and the Americas.

For more information regarding St. Andrews Sukhumvit’s academic offerings, please fill out our online form to book a school tour at our campus. You may also visit our website and watch our personalised interactive virtual campus tour at your convenient time.

St. Andrews International School Sukhumvit S107 is an international school for Early Years, Primary and Secondary schooling that caters to young minds from Nursery to Year 6 as well as Year 7 to Year 13 and beyond that.

We also offer Sixth Form education that’s internationally recognised (by mostly Commonwealth countries) to prepare pupils for A-Level or equivalent exams like Cambridge Pre-U or the International Baccalaureate.

Our school wishes to also explore family involvement in academic, socio-emotional and extracurricular/co-curricular competence in our young learners.

It’s all part of our holistic approach to learning where every aspect of your child’s development is taken into consideration, including their home life. St. Andrews creates a mosaic of classrooms woven with both diversity and solid home values due to familial connections.

Let’s discuss the value of involving the family and engaging parents to their child’s education from the start.

Parental Involvement vs. Parental Engagement

There are a few notable differences between parental involvement and parental engagement even though you need both to support your child’s success in academics.

Parental involvement is the first step towards parental engagement. Parents should have an attitude of willing support and participation in school activities and events.

As the teachers provide information and resources regarding the child’s performance, parents can support the child in mapping out how they could further improve upon certain subjects or activities.

To be involved parents in your children’s schooling means to engage in active, ongoing participation in these young learners’ education. Parents or primary caregivers can demonstrate educational involvement at home by doing the following:

• Helping children with their homework.

• Volunteering in classrooms or engaging in PTA events.

• Establishing clear lines of communication at home and school.

• Talking to the children about school events or what happened in school.

• Read along with their children, using bedtime stories or a mini-library of age-appropriate books.

Involved parents can achieve engagement with the assistance of our instructors who hold primary responsibility in setting the pace for the children’s educational objectives.

Our teachers can offer advice to families and caregivers on the status of their child, which allows them the opportunity to involve themselves and engage their children towards fulfilling their academic or holistic learning potential.

Teachers can also ask parents about information regarding the children that they may not know, such as if they have learning disabilities like dyslexia or conditions like ADHD.

This way, they can enrich the learning experience of the children while bringing both perspectives to the table when push comes to shove. Full parental engagement is an all-in involvement where both the school and the home come together as a team to educate the child.

How Should Parents Support Their Children’s Learning and Overall Development?

According to researchers and decades of study, parental involvement in learning can transcend obstacles in learning that include socio-economic status, the background of the children, and the type of school that they attend.

The parents should be their children’s first teachers anyway, even if they don’t decide to have them home-schooled and have opted to enter them into a public or private school system.

Here at St. Andrews International School Sukhumvit S107, reading with the child is one of the ways parents can give their children a head-start in developing themselves literacy-wise and academics-wise.

It also assists in their self-confidence, self-reliance, and vocabulary for good measure. Instilling and nurturing a love for reading early on is a type of parental support.

Help your child adjust eventually to international school life by reading books with them through bedtime stories or through their own mini library. Meanwhile, have St. Andrews Sukhumvit 107 cover their holistic learning that involves social-emotional development that enhances those foundations.

There’s no magic wand of success to improve the child’s chances of academic excellence. However, it will certainly help them greatly to have parental support from the start.

Instead of giving the child a tablet full of videogames or the YouTube kids app to distract them or even show them television, it’s better to buy them books about their preferred shows or mascots to beguile them about how magical reading is.

The Benefits of Parental Involvement in Children’s Schooling and Academics

Children who have involved parents when it comes to their schooling have a better chance of excelling at school, being more engaged in learning, observing better attendance and behaviour, and getting better skills and grades overall.

Parental support makes the difference even in the social skills of children, as opposed to parents who depend solely on the school to “babysit” these young minds.

Positive parental involvement in children’s schooling that isn’t pampering them or smothering them with attention involves keeping tabs with their progress and giving them prep time for academics during their home life.

According to the National PTA from decades back, the three key parental behaviours that serve as accurate predictors to child achievement in school include the following:

• Developing a home that encourages learning.

• Staying involved in the child’s school education.

• Communicating reasonable yet high expectations for achievement.

Researchers believe the school and parent tandem is the key to long-term success when it comes to the child’s academic performance that also extends to their holistic learning.

Studies also suggest that the children’s academic, behavioural, and motivational performance in school is directly linked to parental engagement that motivates the child to learn and improve.

In other words, a better relationship between home and school should be established to ensure academic or even holistic educational achievement across the board.

How Should Parents Contribute to Their Child’s Education?

Parents should assist in instilling a love for reading in their children because it’s not solely the responsibility of the school to instil such passion in them.

It’s easier for children to become self-motivated in learning, academics, and literacy by reading in school and at home, in fact. Parents should prepare these young learners for the brave new world of academics even at a young age by reading with them early on in their life.

Children should act more like the game changers of society. Did you know that self-motivated people like self-made millionaires, entrepreneurs, career lawyers, and businesspeople are known to voraciously read at least 2 to 3 books a month?

Within a year, these successful persons are able to read 25 to 30 books to expand their knowledge. Within 30 years, they’d consume a total of 1,000 books, at that!

These high-achieving people tend to read self-help books or books about general knowledge to continuously enhance their personal growth and development. Popular billionaire Bill Gates (the founder of Microsoft) is known for reading 50 books a year, while successful investor Warren Buffet reportedly reads for 5 to 6 hours every day.

Parents should cooperate with St. Andrews to make children feel like citizens of the world through reading and learning all about the world through various books.

The Bottom Line of Parental Engagement to Children’s Education

The St. Andrews International School advocates for parental engagement to help instil a sense of passion and normalcy when it comes to learning. Children will feel more passionate or think it’s normal to always want to study and improve their educational attainment.

The school will do its part in helping parents get more involved and engaged with the academic status of their children even as they do read-along sessions with them.

Meanwhile, take note that St. Andrews belongs under the Cognita School Group’s umbrella, which operates other schools located globally from Asia to Europe and the Americas.

For more information about St. Andrews Sukhumvit, please submit an online form to book a school tour at our campus on your preferred date. You may also visit our website and take advantage of our personalised interactive virtual campus tour to see our school from the comforts of your home.