As an employer, you can connect with teachers through webinars, networking sessions, and workplace visits to support education providers in teaching the skills needed for young people to thrive in your industry.
Get in touch with the team via our contact us form to find out how you can support this important work.
What is a teacher encounter?
Teacher encounters give teachers the opportunity to connect with local employers. This engagement allows schools and colleges to explore diverse career pathways and to observe how each subject is applied practically in business.
The valuable insights gained from Teacher Encounters enable teachers to enrich their curriculum, helping their students build a deeper understanding of opportunities, connections between learning and industry, and the essential skills that need to be honed for different roles.
We know there are many different routes into employment, particularly technical and vocational options like apprenticeships. Teacher Encounters equip and empower educators to effectively guide all students to take their best next step.
Teacher encounters can be tailored to suit the employer and the school and can range from two-hour sessions to multiple-day programmes in either face-to-face, virtual, or hybrid formats. They can involve a single teacher or multiple colleagues.
I'm an employer – what's in it for me?
Inviting teachers into your workplace for a few hours, a few days, or even longer benefits your business, teachers, and, importantly, the young people who will make up the workforce of the future.
Teacher encounters boost employers' confidence in working with teachers, schools, and young people and, in turn, improve teachers' confidence in having influential, careers-related conversations with their students.
91% of employers taking part found teacher encounters beneficial to their business, with 96% of employers saying they are now keen to engage with teachers more frequently.
Report by The Careers and Enterprise Company evaluating the teacher encounters initiative
Community engagement: Supports a deeper and more impactful engagement with your local community and future talent pipeline.
Talent pipeline: Builds and strengthens the talent pipeline for future recruitment needs.
Workforce inspiration: Allows employers to inspire and influence the future workforce.
Educator influence: Provides an opportunity to support the influence of educators on young people's decision-making.
Skills gap development: With your support, teachers can identify and teach the essential skills required for different roles. 97% said it helped them explain their future skills needs to teachers and young people.
Flexible formats: Ranging from a few hours to multiple days and virtual or in-person sessions, there's a teacher encounter to suit every employer.
The Careers and Enterprise Company has a range of tools and resources around planning Teacher Encounters.
Register your interest
Invite teachers into your workplace with teacher encounters; let's support the workforce of the future.
Employers wanting to support this work can register your interest via our contact us form.
