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I think my students are nonbelievers or dreammers. Their main objectiv is pass the exams and they don´t think in the skills which will need in the labor market.
Their level of access and desire for employability are low or medium.
Some actions I can taketo improve the situation are to invite a speaker lecture and visit companies

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In this country it is not easy to find work for young people. I try to train my students in scientific content, but also in attitudes such as teamwork, sharing, communicating, working for goals, tenacity, perseverance. I believe that all this can help them in their future work and in their social future.

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Our students get medium support on their way to employment and their motivation differs from person to person. I think our students have desire to get employed. The problem is that sometimes the level of skills and abilities of young people is not relevant to their dreams of getting a well paid job at once. We certainly have strugglers and non believers, too.

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There is unemployment problem in my country. Young people are worried about career planning. Very successful people prefer to work in other countries.

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I can see that we in my school connect with external institutions, such as research and education: Slovenian Forestry Institute, Jožef Stefan Institute, National Institute of Biology, the National Education Institute Slovenia, The Center of the Republic of Slovenia for Mobility and European Educational and Training Programs (CMEPIUS). This is a good, but not one of these institutions is not completely independent from the state and these institutions are very few job opportunities. Already I am thinking about connecting with the industry. Not probably, for sure, I'll do it next year. :)

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The Polish high schools generally don't offer the students the information about their future carriers.
They are aimed on preparing the students for good final tests results. The studies are not in the relations with the future carrier as well

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In poland we must change ouer education system because we don't improved the relationship between the school and working. Ouer students learn to degree and good results on exam.

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We have to improve the relationship between the school and the working world. Our students don´t see this future clearly, we have to help open thir eyes to new chances.

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In Spain, the connection between school and the working world is too much little. At secondary school, when students should oriented their career, they have slight knowledges of real employments; they usually stereotype jobs and not understand properly the relation among education and working.
I feel it is necessary to include resources and information of the industry located surround us in didactic contents. I am developing a project in this sense, focusing on introducing chemical industry in the secondary education classroom, in particulary I am working with the industrial network of my city, Burgos (Spain).

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I'm agree with the study of Youth employment in Europe, I know there are three intersections on the road from education to employnment: enrolling in postsecondary education, building the right skills, and finding a suitable job.
In primary school it is too early to understand the inclinations and professional attitudes.

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Students at the last year of secondary school don't show clear idea about their journey to employment because italian schools are little connected with the working world. on the other side teachers are not prepared to give right guidelines in this field. It's not easy to get the right equilibrium through the three dimensions but it should be our first aim.

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First of all I would like to say that for the vertical axis the teachers are 50% responsibles. So that, it is our responsability to work towards placing every single students between medium and high.
Besides, we are clarely responsible too of the horizontal axis due to our job is keep the students motivated and willing to find a job.
There are lots of things that we, as a teachers, can do to improve this; but maybe the most important is work on students' self-esteem.

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My students are 12-13 ys old and they are not very motivated, then they are placed in nonbelievers area. Their level is low as well as their desire of employabily. I think they see the science as something far and not real. They must be connected with the real world with the help of the school.

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In my school the main purpose of the students is to achieve to register with one of ivy universities. The students in grammar schools do not acquire professional skills at high school level. They focus on maths, physics, chemistry and biology subjects to do well in university entrance examination. If the university enrollment regime stays the same, it is very hard for teachers to make contributions.

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I have a good picture of the situation of my class because my students have a mandatory stage working on real companies. I have observed that the weeks before starting the practical work on those companies there were really excited and furthermore those who had bad academic cualifications that jeopardize his chances to go to a company got really worried if they finally could not go.

So, I do think that at both axes (access and desire of employability) we have very good expectations because our students have been well supported and they were looking forward for going to a company.

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In the primary school the students are very younk to think their dream . Their dream is as their parents often.

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The students often can be placed among dreamers. The loss of motivation is connected to the fact that they dont believe in them selvs and they dont have any knowleges of the jobs connected to science.

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The students nowadays can be placed among "dreamers" and "nonbelievers". The loss of motivation is in the  increasing unemployement. School teachers can improve the situation trying to motivate students but also providing connections with research or business world. Students often can't even imagine their future as a worker.

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Unfortunately, during the last years I think that the number of Nonbelievers is increasing, and the number of persisters and achievers has alarming decreased.

I think that it is due to a decreasing level of intellectual, creativity and imagination demand both at school and at home. Other factor affecting that is the lack of self-confidence and the idea that they have not the power of managing their own lives.

I try to empower them, giving problems that dare their minds, asking challenging questions and guiding them to find the answer and not waiting me to answer.

I always try to prove themselves that they can invent, imagine, reason and relate their knowledge to solve problems.
There are a good number of dreamers too, as Azucena says.

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Lithuania
I believe the situation in Lithuania is very similar to the one presented in Exibit 1. The majority of students don't have a clear vision of what they would like to do in the future and very few people can guide them at school. We do have career counselling but basically these are random discussions during the lessons, doing career quizes or visiting universities from time to time. As far as the collaboration with future employers is concerned, schools need it a lot, some schools try to engage companies, yet E2E is not on the level it should be.

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I think that a good part of my students have a medium-high desire for employability; but, on the other hand, they are strugglers and non-believers due to high level of unemployment  and the difficult to find a good employment.
Schools should invest more in outbound orientation, while sometimes they're more interested in incoming orientation
With the introduction in Italian school of "School-work alternation" something is changing, but I think that curricula should be reviewed and school-work alternation should be really formed and training.

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The most of my students are dreamers. They think, that they will get a well payed job with no hard work.

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I teach in a primary school and my students are 8 years old, so they still have no idea of ​​their future, they have so many dreams and I am committed to encouraging them and driving them to develop interest in STEM disciplines.

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My students are legally of age. Most of them have a non-STEM job that allows them to make their´s living while they are trying to improve their employability in a STEM-job. So I think they have a great desire of employability

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My students fit better into 'meanderers' (with some exceptions of 'high achievers').
I think that in order to be able to exercise our teaching by connecting academic life with the reality of work, it is convenient for teachers to work in private companies before joining teaching. This would not be necessary if teachers had received a University Education focused on the demands of the labor market but, in most cases, that's not what happens.

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I teach in Primary, my students haven't a real idea about their future.

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In my class the students don't think in future, but some of them think they will be astronauts or similar...

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Ithink most students are dreamers and persistant. They wish to get an employee, but they do not really know how, and, moreover, they do not want to make a great effort

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My students are 7-11 years old. They are too young to think in their future and to know what is what they want but I think they are very interested in STEM careers because in my classroom I've noticed that they really enjoy with Science lessons.

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My students are interested in employability bus they search the most easy way to find job, the most parte of them. There are some students that want to continue studing for a better future.

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My students are very young. So when speaking about employability their dream is usually to repeat the model that they see at home.

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I think that my studets, who ar around 16, could be placed around monbelievers and dreamers because from my experience they suffer a lack of motivation.

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My students are about 14 years old, and they don't think much about their future job. They are eager to attend the high school and only a few of them  own  the clear idea to become an engeneer or a teacher or a psycologist. Most of them are frustrated, don't think learning important and it's very difficult  to teach them the value of a good culture for reaching their dreams and future goals.
We have in Italy the so called "alternanza scuola lavoro", but a lot of people criticize it as many employers just exploite young students, students are compelled to work hard without any increasing of job experience useful for their future life.

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I'm a teacher in primary school. Children change your mind every hour about their future. I observed that they prefer something related with a model they firmly admire. Secondly they love experience that can leave theme a positive memorie, for this give you the opportunity to learning by doing is really important. Also became a scientist or a geologist or a biologic at school may be an amazing way to improve their desire.

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My students are nonbelievers, dreamers and mostly persisters. They simply do not think that this knowledge will bring them a job. That’s why, I have to show them real life examples and role models.

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My students have access to automotive FP studies in a simple way, they only need the title of school graduate. Throughout their studies, they conduct guided practices in the institute's workshop, which they will later find in their work. In addition, the last four months of the last year of studies, they practice in mechanical workshops in the area, with the possibility of being hired by the holder.

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My students are nonbelievers, dreamers and persisters. I need to make them believe that there is a job for them by presenting them with different job opportunities in their surroundings. And, I think that they need to learn that failure is also a part of the process and not the reason for giving up.

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I think they are strugglers and persisters, have few support to the employment and a high desire to become workers. Sometimes this desire decreases because of frustration.
Probably I could insist telling them how necesary are workers with STEM skills nowadays.

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My students are 11-14 years old and are intersted in STEM careers. They enjoy Science lessons and IT.

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I teach in primary school but during my lessons I try to motivate my students for future work by showing some good examples or inviting professionals in the classroom that work in ICT companies

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My students are 11-13 years old, and are confused about their future work. They don't have great support from the family and are less motivated. I think that at this age they need to be motivated by their families. School and teachers must provide the necessary skills for the workplace, in particular the soft skills.

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I think there is very little understanding between teachersand business. Schools are more oriented on good exam results and neglect skills necessary for students to be confidet in getting the desired job. On the other hand there is very little information about job opportuities and skills these jobs require. There are some changes, our ministry has just obliged schools to provide more information. We organize meetings with parents who want to share their experience connected with their job, but they could do more if they were somehow trained.

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My colleagues have described perfectly the situation in our country. The school is not connected to the labour market. It would be very useful for students to have established programs to improve the collaboration between educators and employers.

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In Spain, there are very few programs that related the classrooms with the Companies, you can find this with the"Dual Vocational trainning " where the students combined the theory lessons with the practical ones.

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There is not any program established in order to communicate school and companies. There are initiatives, but there are not an official programme to ensure that every pupil have a contact with companies.
Due to the wellfare system, and despite the big crisis, youngsters, in general dont feel the necessity of progressing, studying or making the world to go ahead. I think they expect others to do it by them. Thay are going to be, o nmy view the first generation which are having less standars of life quality than their parents.

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I have worked in many different areas and i really believe that there are a lot of gaps in the way between the studies and the jobs. We should change the law of education to change the way to understand the professional world. You as a student can have a good curriculum and a good desire for employability but probably you are going to have few oportunities to get a good job (you don´t have enough experience, or soft skills, or the habilities for the job requieres more confident) It is difficult to get a good comunication between the companies/bussiness and the studies.

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My colleagues have described very well the situation in my country. It is extremely difficult to become a high achiever. Therefore, even students who could become high achievers, stay as dreamers or non-believers.
As teachers, we must keep on fighting so our students get the best possible learning, but we must also fight so they get the best possible employability scenario.

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I live in Spain and after the crisis it was quite difficult to find a job not only for the crisis but also for the experience that many factories are demanding, but how to get experience if companies do not give you the opportunity? To be honest it’s an incredibly difficult question to answer. Its a work of everyone in this society take into account some action to improve the situation. In my view politicians should change their mind and improve the different laws of education little by little because I’m pretty worried about the new generations.

Its widely known that its not a piece of cake to change education as quick as a flash but it’s a fact that if we work hard at the we can do it. Improving education not only at the school but also implicating the families.

Finally factories should give more opportunities to young people as well as give more facilities to them.

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In my country many of the students are no really motivated to study because they don't belive in finding a good job with degrees.

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I think that 13 years old students are often very confused about their future work. It is so very important that parents and teachers work together to guide them towards the possibilities that the market offers according to thier attitudes.

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I work in rural part of my country where a majority of children only finish high school and a really small number of them go to college and finish something they love and want to work. Also there is a major problem in my country where people find work based on who they are related to and not based on their qualifications.

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I teach very young students who do not question about their future jobs yet. Moreover, the actuions I take are teaching them to be competent in team work, collaborative tasks, problem solving.... that I think will be usefull skils in their future.

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Obviously I have all kind of students, but in Spain is a challenge find the job you want. This discourage some students that can`t see a good close future. For that the best students leave my country,sadly.

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I teach technologies to students of vocational courses, and what I verify in their generality is that they do not have great future aspirations. Few are those who intend to go to higher education, there are several who still give up in the middle, looking for low-skilled jobs. The bridge between schools and employers, despite the fact that the students carry out curricular internships throughout the course, are not fully in line with the reality of the labor market. It was very important that when students' internships in companies were properly prepared by them, with well-defined training and goals so that these students felt that the market really needs them and how they could and should Their professional paths. The biggest problem for my students is the lack of aspirations.

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I teach in a Primary School. My pupils are really your to think about their future and career, as well. At the moment we are teaching our students to think about something because they are going to be future citizens.

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My students have difficult to find a work.
When I say them what they think to do at the end of the school they say that thei don't mind at the moment.
I think so it's very important that they acquire skills that they can use in work.

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my pupils are mostly positioned in the upper part (they have support from families), and they are usually motivated. A few are high achievers, several persistent. this last skill is, in my opinion , vry important in order to achieve their goals.

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Most of my students are far from working. Right now they would be in the dreamers. They know what they like, but they do not know if they can dedicate themselves to it and live by it. Better ways of orienting their training are needed and the importance of such training must be stressed. In addition we must stop lying in the statistics on work and address the problems of the current system so that the students can depend on themselves and not be carried away by the existing crisis.

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My pupils are still too small to have clear ideas, but it's important that they learn to dream and find the right way. So with projects like this and with orientation activities the school can help them in choosing. Also supporting families.

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My students, aged between 10-14 at secondary school, can be placed at the strugglers position. Their access and desire for the employability are mostly shaped by the parental expectations and popularity level of some professions. As for the popularity of the professions, salary seems the significatn indicator. I can mention future occupations in order that they can broaden their horizon.

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In my case, my students of Primary Education are dreamers, they are 9 years old. They are enthusiastic students. They love doing projects or making scientific experiments. They dream of becoming doctors, astronauts, scientifcs, etc.

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Most of my students are non-belivers due to an approximately 20% of unemployment. And it's very difficult to improve the situation in this country, they have to think about leaving Spain...

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My students are too young to think about their carreer. They are dreamers, they change their mind every day. My job, and thier parents job, is to bring them to follow their inspiration and their skills.

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Although my students are very young for thinking about their future and jobs. Pupils are dreamers and talk about what they want to be. In my opinion is a good idea children to be in contact with real life and the job world since early ages. We, as adults, must give them the opportunity to learn by means of experiences which can help to develop their skills

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My students are young enough to be dreamers but as they grow and ask questions they start to feel as non-believers, because they know people that have higher studies in STEM careers but their acess to work is not the best. I tell them to look at STEM career students that have succeed finding a good job

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Once secondary education and national examinations have been completed, some portuguese young people decide to continue their academic life in university. But if it is true that they all come from specific areas, depending on the grouping they chose to move to the 10th year, it is still true that many still have no idea what course they want to pursue.

Of the various factors to take into account (average, ​​formation area or vocation) there is one that has been disregarded over the years and that should have more and more weight when choosing a course and an educational establishment, the employability. With the economic crisis with very high unemployment figures, it is more important than ever to choose a course that guarantees a minimum of employability once you have the straw in your hand, but in the midst of so much choice is it difficult to know what they are? My students are placed in dreamer’s class, because they are in 10th year. Only half them knows what course want pursue, and the other half only says the prefer science or engineer.  Either way, choose where to opt for something is certain, however many people try to sell a different idea, the numbers are clear and being licensed is much better than not being in what the job search is about. My job is give him choices and help them search information.

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I think that we have great students in our country but our big problem is they have a big difficulty to find a job. they have to work in other counties.

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Access Support - Parents in Malaysia are very supportive to Children's education, having said that, it is unusual to bring guest(expert) back to high school.  I will say most students desire for employability is middle to high.    Especially want to work in oversea.

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We have a lack of support and students are non believers. Most of them will work in other countries because its very difficult to find a job in my country. They see this reality everywhere.

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I teach ICT in Vocational Training so my students has a high level of desire for employability. I dare to say proudly that we have some students in that 10% of high achievers. Obviusly they also need a high level of english to get job mobility.

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Unfortunately My students are non-believers in their future employment. When I ask about their favourite job, or if I want to give them some advices.. they joke and say that they don't mind at the moment. So, using the materials of the course, i suggest them to try the quiz https://www.thetechpartnership.com/tech-future-careers/quiz/

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I think they are placed between dreamers ans struglers, because they dream with get  a degree in STEM careers, but they have not started the university. Maybe the main part of them will become high achievers, but I can tell the future.
In some groupos, that are studying electronic, Mechanical and so on, in fact these studies are not true STEM careers, they get a very high level of empleability.

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Talking from my own experience, I have to admit that the chart Exhibit1 matches quite successfully with the reality of our schools. There a quite high percentage of students that we can calificate as dreamers (which I think is quite typical of their age and this will be changing as they get older), a small percentage of achievers, which are good students who are also well supported and well guided through the right path by their families to develope their skills, and there are also a sigificant percentage of students that we can calificate as Non - Believers, according to the article. And those are the more worrying ones, and those on which we have to put all of our efforts as professionals of education and learning.
We have to design our lessons to try to encourage the students to develope their skills to be well prepared for the labour market and to increase their possibilities of employability. We have to include in our classes practical activities, ITC activities, etc... All of them targetted to develope their STEM skills and to give them more chances of succes in their professional careers.

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I work as a Secondary (13-18 years old) teacher in a state school placed in a standard area of a city (around 600.000 people, two universities, tourism, industry...) My school is a comprehensive school with a wide variety in the sociocultural background of its students, but a variety that is really balanced. Unfortunately my students do not have enough support in their path to employment. In relation with their desire to become employable for the majority of them is an issue that belong to a far future. I think that this second situation is consequence of the first, the lack of support in their path to employment. Between 14 and 16 students and families take decisions that led students to vocational training or A levels, the problem is that this decisions are made only based in academical result and so on vocational training finished labelled as “the failure option”.
I have little options to act in relation with the whole problem but I have the opportunity to show through my subjects the opportunities related with stem jobs, not only after a degree, but also after vocational training.

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Bearing in mind the age of my students, I would say that they are dreamers. They talk about what they want to be when they become older, but they do not have much conscience of the reality or the world around them.

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Given the age of my pupils (6 to 8) I would say that most of them are dreamers.They think about what their future could be but they have little concept of reality. I can help them by talking to them and guiding them to understand more about the possibilities depending on their abilities.

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My students are located in the "middle ages" period. We barely go to the laboratory and the things we build are mechanical not chemical. WE have built different cars and boats but without the use of software or robotics. The ideal is that in my science class, students should use robotics and software to take the car and the boat to the next level.
Nowadays I only teach them how to build a car or a boat but at a rudimentary level (circuits, and material with wood, plastic...)

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Since my students are still very young, 11-14 years old, it is quite difficult to provide a prediction of their future, but I think , there are a few high achievers, some dreamers, a few persisters and then coasters and meanderers. Access is still possible if your results in your studies are satisfactory, but sometime their desire dor employability is not based on realistic expectaction, so their degree of success is not truly predictable. To help their future carees as a teacher I can expose them to possible role models and the reality of the requests of market and business, so they can develop the required skillset and set realistic expectation for their future.

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At 12-13 years  they are still too young and immature, and it depends a lot on their families and their cultural backgrounds. Many are dreamers, many are nonbelievers, few are achievers. First of all they need to be motivated by their families in order to study. Telling them that being graduated doesn't help is totally wrong. We teachers always tell them that they will struggle to find a good job, related to their skills, even after studying.  Probably many of them should go away from this area and few will go abroad, as it happened to those of my generation.

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I would say my students are mainly dreamers, as they want to get a good position with a high salary in the future but they are not realistic about the effort it takes, and they are definitely not willing to work as much. So considering their level of Access is médium, I think they have a médium desire for employability as well. I think in this situation both parents and teachers are to blame, as we are failing to show students that everything in this life require great efforts. In myopinion, that is the basis to the problem, even though a higher level of guidance would probably change the situation as well

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Placing my students in one of the categories from exhibit 1 is a bit complex by considering their short age of 10 or 11. But since my perspective I could think they are dreamers.

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Most of my students are strugglers or non-believers. We try very hard in my school to turn them into persisters at least.

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My students have clear that they have to be prepared but they do not know what they really will go to do.

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Most of our students are still not ready to go out of their comfort zone, mostly because of low self-confidence. However, we have many promising students who need to guided well. They will definitely succeed with the right guidance and opportunities offered to them.

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Most of my students are dreamers, but there are a lot nonbelievers: probably due to lack of support from the family (for economic reasons) and from the school

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I think my students are placed in coasters. They are studying professional training so, they expect to improve their employability, although some of them are less motivated. To improve the situation we make technical visits to industries as they can see what they can put into practice all the acquired skills.

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My students would like to become all doctors, engineers, chemists, but I think they do not know how much commitment and how much study it takes. Many of them will be disappointed.

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Most of the students are dreamers, but I have some that are high achievers and is already seeking for their career goal.

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Unfortunately our education system is tiled on knowledge  recall rather then the attainment and application of knowledge learnt and other skills.  Thus I'm afraid that the majority of the pupils are not being adequately prepared for employment.  For them to succeed, its up to them to make the changes needed to adapt to their work environment.  I would like to see a drastic change in the way we teach so as to promote more critical thinking and creative problem solving skills why applying the knowledge learnt.

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I have students in all segments, but most are dreamers.

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I think my students belong to the persisters and coasters. What makes the situation improve is the Minister of Education's Project "Alternanza Scuola-Lavoro" that let the students have a working experience during the school year and which is part of the final evaluation. Industries and companies offer their hospitality to schools and have students develop the skills they require.

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I think most of my students (11-13 years old) belong to the category of the dreamers, a very small percentage to that of the coasters and the high achievers. However, there are also some nonbelievers. I think that Science and Maths teachers should as far as possible inform their students about the possibilities that science and technology offer to find a good employment. For example, by reading articles on this topic in the classroom, watching videos of the most demanding works, bringing to the class some experts, interviewing some parents who know the topic.

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I’m working in primary school. I have students in all segments, but most of them are dreamers. I try to motivate them. Often, I have conversation with them for future jobs, and I try to make them to imagine how can be future jobs

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I have a lot of students, so I have students in all the segments, by most of them are dreamers. They think that they will have a really good job without any effort.

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Most of my  students are placed dreamers. Their level of access and desire for employability is medium because they are still thinking in specializing studies in many fields. I could take to improve this situation if I can them help for more education and real training for a job.

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My students are facing his first job. On the second year they do placements in companies. In this step they will have the opportunity to learn and show to the company their skills. In some cases students get his first job. Meanwhile, I encourage them to continue studying, it will allow them to obtain high qualification jobs.

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Unfortunately, the youngest population has the highest level of unemployment in our country. For this reason, they think that graduates of STEM fields may be unemployed. But there is no room for despair! We can come from above everything.