icould free teaching resources

Easy ways to integrate careers across the curriculum including downloadable student worksheets and teacher resources.

icould helps inspire and inform secondary school students about their futures with:

1. Real-life career videos packed with personal insights into work, pathways and choice. Explore videos by job type or by subject – or explore videos by theme to see to see how wider issues and situations can shape careers.

2. Practical tips on topics such as GCSE options, post-16 pathways and university choices, as well as revision, exams and finding work – see advice and guides.

As well as encouraging individuals to use icould, these resources show how you can use icould to support group and whole-class learning.

icould career video student worksheet

General questions which can be used with all icould videos to demonstrate student learning, supporting Gatsby benchmark 4.

Learning outcome: to increase awareness about jobs and skills and how they link to school subjects and to consider how career routes and other factors can impact career choices.

Adaptations: ask students to respond to selected questions or use to prompt group/class discussion.

Download student worksheet (one-page pdf)

Ten quick and easy icould activities

Short activities ideal for lesson starters or homework – scale up by including more videos or expanding discussions and questions – or group different activities together to create a whole lesson.

Why use icould? Harnessing the power of personal video stories

Personal video narratives bring careers to life in a relatable way – they help spark ideas, make information accessible and easy to absorb, and provide a great starting point for wider discussion.

Use icould to engage students with your careers strategy and:

• Increase awareness of pathways and opportunities – and how they can form
• Link school subjects with jobs
• Build personal reflection and career exploration

Watching icould videos also encourages young people to recognise:

• Careers are individual – many influences and motivations shape choices
• There is no set path – people with similar jobs often take different routes
• Careers evolve and change – being able to adapt is a valuable life skill

 “Students like this approach and enjoy the stories. Other people’s experiences can be safer and using multi-media in sessions helps to engage students more effectively.”
Careers adviser

How can I use icould in school?

icould supports a range of learning objectives through a mix of individual, group and whole-class learning. The videos make it easy to embed careers provision little and often into teaching practice, without the need for detailed planning.

You can use icould in careers, PSHE and subject teaching:

• As a starter activity
• In form times and assemblies
• To support learning across a block of lessons or on an individual basis
• As a homework activity or to support independent learning
• In off-timetable careers events and one-to-one careers sessions
• To enhance learning before and after employer encounters
• To help meet the Gatsby benchmarks
• With alternative curriculum students

Watching a single pre-selected video will take around four minutes; asking students to choose and watch a video will take a little longer.

“The films help students to identify with the individuals on the films and different areas which they have previously not considered. They have also been used to help some students who go out on placement to focus on their own experiences and to capture their learning more effectively.”
Careers professional

See our Information for parents page for details of how parents can use icould.

Find out how icould is use by a wide range of practitioners in the report Making use of icould: learning from practice by Nicki Moore and Tristram Hooley from the University of Derby.