- Our Educational Philosophy
- What is On the Job?
- Who benefits?
- How is On the Job different to other websites?
- What's New
- Frances Moore
- Fuzz Grant - our Illustrator
- Rob Moore
WebQuests created by Frances Moore
Our Educational Philosophy
* To encourage students to critically think, extend their numeracy skills and promote their literacy
* To show, engage and inspire students with amazing Australians who are working [or worked] in a particular job.
* Save student time as information is all in one place - job information; videos; Did you know?; Activities
What is On the Job?
* FREE Online Resource with over 2000+ jobs listed along with information, activities and links.
* Full Job Listing
* Australian focus
* Uses the vehicle of careers to:
~ inspire and encourage students to look at real world situations
~ make decisions, and
~ think
This eLearning resource uses literacy and numeracy activities, from simple to complex, to explore a range of careers for Australian students (Years 5 - 12). We have produced lesson plans and guides to achieve this goal.
The website is paired with lesson plans, activities, reading material, discussion questions, games and more.
"On the Job" builds on what students have learnt in their earlier years in Primary School about the world of work and helps students go from the concrete to the abstract in their thinking.
"On the Job" has challenging
information, activities and links for students in
Primary
Middle
Secondary.
- Students
- All Years 5 - 12 Teachers teaching English, Mathematics, Science, & Humanities including Careers Education.
- Parents & Carers
How is On the Job different to other websites?
-
Information section
is collated from a range of websites
- the Job Guide
- JobOutlook;
- Your Career;
- Jobs & Skills WA;
- CareersOnline;
- CareerHQ;
- Good Universities Guide
- Open Universities
- My Big Tomorrow
- CareerFAQs
- CareerHarvest
- JobHero
- Study
- the Job Guide
- We have developed challenging and interesting
activities that go with each job and links to relevant
websites. The activities are paired with lesson plans,
reading material, discussion questions, games and more.
The activities target:
- eLearning
- based on the Australian Curriculum General Capabilities [ACGC]
- for individual exploration or for classroom use
- collaborative resources from Australian teachers
- all resources submitted are acknowledged
- There are also over 150 "Life on the Job" [LOTJ] people. The website is Australian-centric but there are a few famous International people we have highlighted along with famous, Indigenous and ordinary Australians [some doing extraordinary things]. LOTJ has information about the pathway of the person, links to websites about this person, and, activities based on this person's life or the major career they have followed.
- We have developed snapshots of people on the job as well in what we call CAMEO
What's New
Each week there are new jobs listed, or LOTJ people, or resources or all of the above.
Frances Moore
Creator and Maintainer
Frances has a degree in
B.A. (Biological Sciences) Macquarie University,
a
Diploma in Education (UNE);
a
Diploma of Business;
Certicate of
Teacher Education (Classroom Practice) The Federation of
Australasian Philosophy in Schools Association (FAPSA);
a Philosophy
for Children Level 2, Train the Trainer
(FAPSA); and, a
Certificate IV in Training and Assessment.
Frances set up "On the Job" website early in her career as the
Managing Director of Moore Technologies at the request of a Deputy
Principal in a Primary School. When launched back in 2001, the
website received a "Golden Web Award" for creative thinking and
encouraging students to be engaged in careers in a different way.
As an Educator with over 30 years experience,
Frances is passionate about critical thinking and
eLearning. She decided that she would use her background in
Secondary Education to expand the On the Job website to
target students and their teachers from Years 5 - 10. This target
group remained until 7 years ago. When showing Years 10 - 12
Teachers the website, they said that they would like to use it
within their classes and thought that the activities were well
suited to encourage their students in a range of subject areas.
You will notice a different icon,
Philosophy
across the website. During her time in
the Department of Education, Frances was asked to assess the
significantly different NAPLAN scores from one school in Brisbane.
There she discovered that the school conducted "Philosophy 4
Schools" with students from Kindergarten to Year 7. Their scores
were off the charts so Frances investigated further. She then
embarked on getting training in this programme. Frances is now a
Train the Trainer in Philosophy 4 Schools (previously Philosophy 4
Children) and is the Secretary of SOPHY - the ACT branch. Frances
hopes that by adding stimulus materials to OTJ website, teachers
will conduct Communities of Inquiry to promote deeper thinking
amongst their students.
At one stage, Frances collected over 19 thousand and reviewed
over 12 thousand WebQuests [the Rich Thinking Task variety - rather
than research assignments] in her hope that teachers would love
these inquiry and project based activities and use them in their
classrooms. See
below for some examples that Frances created or developed.
Frances continues to add new job profiles each week to OTJ and would
be delighted to hear from teachers if they need any particular jobs
researched for their students. Each day she learns more and is
having fun!
Positions held
• Medical Technologist, Blood Bank, Repatriation Hospital Concord
• Medical Technologist, Cancer Research, Prince of Wales Hospital
• Science Teacher, Marist College Canberra
• Science Coordinator, Marist College Canberra
• Deputy Principal, Curriculum, St Clare’s College Canberra
• Managing Director, Moore Technologies Pty Ltd
including WebQuest Direct
• Lecturer/Tutor University of Canberra
• Executive Officer Online Services ACT Department of Education
•
Guest
Lecturer ACU; CQU; James Cook University
• Academic Skills Advisor ACU
• Acting Manager ACU Online
• Equity Pathways Officer ACU
• Summer Clemente Community Program - Lecturer & Tutor
• Casual Academic – Education ACU
• Tertiary Supervisor for Secondary & Primary Pre-Service Teachers,
ACU
In 2016, On the Job was recognised as an Online
Learning Destination by the University of Adelaide as part of their
Equity Outreach. On the Job continues to be an Online Learning
Destination.
This Children's University has expanded to include Africa.
The Aim is to "Help develop free-thinking and inquisitive children
who enjoy learning."
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Fuzz, our Illustrator Extraordinaire,
has a degree from University of Canberra in
Graphic Design and from Northern Melbourne Institute of Technology
for Illustration.
Fuzz has created most of our illustrations on
this website. She currently lives in San Francisco and is able to
create our animations, and profiles for each job overnight while we
slept in Australia.
She is truly talented!
Read her story here.
To see more of her work, Fuzz concentrates
on "visualizing the welfare of children", click
here
On the Job and Fuzz
Some examples of Fuzz's work for
On the Job..
Rob, the Technology person behind On the Job.
Rob is also the "sounding board" and ideas person!
Qualifications: BA (Hons) Macq; MSc (Hons) Macq;
MEngSci (Project Management) UNSW; MA ACU
These WebQuests are Rich Tasks where students are asked to explore more deeply into a topic. Students use and develop their creative and critical thinking skills, discuss, debate and, maybe, carry out a Community of Inquiry - a Philosophical Concept.
Philosophy
Want to know more about WebQuests? click here.
The following WebQuests have been created or adapted by Frances Moore and On the Job
 The
Petrov Affair - Australia and the Cold War
Middle
Secondary
 Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Critical and creative thinkingWant to get your students to study the Petrov Affair and Cold War in detail from an Australian perspective? Target: Students studying the Cold War in History Go to the Museum of Australian Democracy website and discover a Rich Task including a WebQuest that Frances Moore created some time ago for the MoAD - The Petrov Affair. It is maintained by MoAD so will be up-to-date.  0 |
Gold ForcePrimaryAustralian
Curriculum General Capability:
Critical and creative thinking Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Literacy Here is a Rich Task and WebQuest called Gold Force created by Frances Moore and reviewed in January 2020. Before you can commence the Australian Gold Rush, students need to understand the importance of gold. Three teams to solve "What is Gold?" "Why is it so important?" by looking at three aspects:  G-Force: Geographical, historical and social importance of gold.  E-Force: Economic importance and value of gold.  T-Force: Technological and scientific importance of gold. |
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Much
to Do About Costumes WebQuest
[(Adapted from a
WebQuest now in WebArchive)DSecondaryecember
Australian
Curriculum General Capability: ICT Capability
Australian
Curriculum General Capability: Literacy
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Prisoner
or Protected - A Rich Task about Zoos Middle
Secondary
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Critical and creative thinking Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Personal and social capabilityAustralian
Curriculum General Capability:
Literacy
Australian
Curriculum General Capability: Ethical UnderstandingPhilosophy
This WebQuest or Rich Thinking Task was initially created by the preservice teachers at the University of Richmond and can only be found on the Web Archive. It was totally rewritten and adapted for the Clemente Program ACU 2018 by Frances Moore and is being revised in late 2023. |
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This WebQuest is based on the information provided initially by Behind the News [BTN]. The Big Question is “Should there be a legal trade in elephant ivory?”
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A
Creative Response to Bullying in Schools Reviewed October 2020  |
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Champions
of Justice - A Human Rights WebQuest Being reviewed and updated late 2022  |
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Prophets
- Today? Are there Prophets today? How do we know? Being reviewed and updated late 2023  |
Australasia
Children's University - part of the
Children's Universities Worldwide and operated by The University of Adelaide
- has contacted On the Job again to renew our part of this great equity
participation. "On the Job" is
an Australasia Children's University Online Learning Destination!
Get your students to investigate!
           
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