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I think a quite difficult challenge teachers encounter is practising career-counseling since they are not required to possess a specific knowledge about science or more generally stem careers

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Teachers are often in lack of general knowledge how to be a career consultant. They lack of resources, and that is biggest issue.

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To improve the STEM careers in our school   is planning a project to support student access to science professionals and worksites  such as academic research laboratories and companies.

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We have a general career counselling in the school, but it is encharged of every career and our students make different choise so it is not possible than career counselling will be specialised in STEM. It should be STEM teacher who encourange and inspire their students to incline them to STEM career

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We have a general career counselling in the school, but it is encharged of every career and our students make different choise so it is not possible than career counselling will be specialised in STEM. It should be STEM teacher who encourange and inspire their students to incline them to STEM career

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I think there is a vlde problem is we teach student only disciplines nd they dont know how to use them to invent somethibg new

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Our high school is theoretically, and our students have IT and linguistic skills at the end of the courses. The Career Counseling Teacher provides students with resources about the professions they can have after completing their university studies.

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Due to excessive bureaucracy and paperwork obstacles, we can not have enough career activism in our schools.

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Its very important to train XXI skils to students at the school years? not in career life

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Its very important to train XXI skills to students at the school years not in career life

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Factors that lead to poor information on possible careers in STEMs are many. There is little use of scientific instruments and dedicated environments (scientific and informatics laboratories) that are present in the school, to a low level of knowledge by some teachers in the STEM careers world. Surely a major problem is the scarcity of school resources to go to places that could trigger students in the ambition of a STEM career. Another problem is the low attendance of STEM disciplines, which are often in the minority when decisions are made, for example, on the goal of a trip. Often, they prefer "tourist" destinations to scientific-technological destinations such as the "City of Science".

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Mūsų mokykloje dirba karjeros specialistas, bet dar trūksta pastovios sistemos šiam darbui. Tai tobulinama palaipsniui.Kaunas, Nijolė

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Mūsų mokykloje dirba karjeros specialistas, bet dar trūksta pastovios sistemos šiam darbui. Tai tobulinama palaipsniui.Kaunas, Nijolė

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Teachers aren't concerned with the necessity to approach local Science institutions to the students. Schools need resources, materials and new pedagogical guides to improve lessons and motivation of teachers and students.

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Because of the central exam system, our students  have to memorize some knowledge. However, they do not develop their handcraft and their creativity.

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Serkan ASLAN, Pamukova Vocational and Tecnical High School, Sakarya/TURKEY

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Serkan ASLAN, Pamukova Vocational and Tecnical High School, Sakarya/TURKEY

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I think science awareness in our schools is very low. The importance of science is unknown. Many students are not aware of their talents. In addition, physical deficiencies and lack of equipment in our schools are an important part of this problem.

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It would be great if the schools could have a great deal of tools  to create ever active science labs, but the resources available to the school are very limited. It is necessary to provide tools and methodologies to facilitate the acquisition of STEM skills.

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I am a graduate in foreign languages and I am an English teacher with over 20 years experience. I teach in a grammar school and there is a great problem that we encounter in our schools . Teachers , in general, should devote  time  to infusing career information and  be aware of the importance too.

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The lack of information about it, and how to encourage students to investigate and understand how stem works, because we work all the time with different disciplines but not all the students are really interested on it and how make it work.

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I think that children are very interested in knowing from a young age. However, when they meet a teacher who is not equipped enough, the knowledge related to the students becomes lost. The teachers need to find ways to improve themselves in order to have adequate equipments for the developing scientific processes. the teacher needs a set of training and time to develop this direction. So most teachers are not looking at new trainings.

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Since the objectives are based solely on the acquisition of documents, complete learning is not achieved. Full learning will be provided when students learn by doing.

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This report merely focused on infusing career information into the science classroom in high school. I was glad to read that one interviewee said that science after grade 10 is not inclusive. So why waiting so long for supporting the STEM pipeline? Luckily, in our 8th grades, there are already state standards for sciences subjects that deal with STEM careers. The activities the teachers develop and integrate to meet the concerned standards can be improved. That's were professional development enters the scene...

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Although my school has good labs, we don't have a lot of time to try other things because of the extent of the curriculum. Also, science teachers don't know the new careers available and can't give counselling because we lack the knowledge. The information about STEM careers all over the world should be organized and available online. Neverthless, here in Portugal, in the different schools where I've worked, we do go with the secondary students to different universities on their open day to the community. There is a lot of different activities available and counsel to the students that helps them choose a STEM career.

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The teachers should work to motivate the students to the stem careers showing the scientist as a real people, but there is very important the career councelor that is not present in every school

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I can say that this paper sums up very well the main challenges in helping students to choose a career pathway in STEM. First of all, and naturally, the inevitable uncertainty about "tomorrow’s jobs" in a hyper speed-changing world… But also the absolute lack of organized information on STEM, provided to teachers/counselors; the lack of opportunities to research, digest and organize the existant information, simultaneously with teaching/counseling daily routines;  the overwhelming distance between pure theoretical school counseling and the meaningful experience in real life contexts, that unfortunately don’t exist…
All these are severe obstacles to a proper, enlightening, motivating, future building help.

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the great challenge is to provide conditions and training to teachers so that they feel motivated and committed to developing STEM projects in their classrooms, giving their students space to be creative, reflective and able to work in teams by sharing knowledge and helping to grow mutually in the society in which we live and not to create a competitive spirit of non-sharing.

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Rimini/Italy

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STEM teachers should warm up students' motivation helping them to understand that STEM path gives more chances in working world, giuding them to choose the best direction to be satisfied in their lives.

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In my school we haven't career counseling, and it's a real shame. Last year I took my students to the University of Phisics, 30 km far from my place, as we were invited to partecipate to a science divulgation event. It was amazing, both for me and my students. Apart from this episode, Ifeel there is a lack of opportunities of job counseling, even if my school is very well equipped with technology.

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1- Central exams
2- Degrees gives students trust to know that they will be accepted to schools if they have enough success. 3- Inflexable Curriculum

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I think that the most important issue is to show the students the benefits from STEM career and  STEM education in their lives. On that way students will like to learn STEM subjects by themselves and will raise others' students interest and motivation for STEM subject

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I consider that the most important challenges are the linking of theory to practice, the lack of logistical infrastructure in schools as well as the lack of special advisers in order to properly train teachers for STEM.

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The main challenges in Grecce can be divided in two categories. The first one is the lack classroom materials and science equipment. The second one is the demanding nature of keeping up with a career in an area with such a rapid development and changes.

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I've  been a teacher of foreign languages for 23 years but I can name the main problem of loosing interest to science in our pupils as this is also the reason of low grades in all the subjects. It's very complicated and loaded with too much information curriculum. Very often pupils loose interest to learning and loving science subjects and thinking of them as connected with their future profession after they have problems trying to learn this mass of formulae and difficult words. They just stop studying. As a result, too much theory not liked with the real life don't let the teachers think of STEM and show the pupils possible career prospects.

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The biggest problem is the lack of a career specialist in schools.
job selection is usually done by the school's guidance service, at a younger age the choice of school is entirely by the family,
the rate of asking an expert is low.
Another problem is the examination system in our country.
the student must be directed to the right profession by the experts in the field and appropriate assessment scales.

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TURKEY/ISTANBUL

1- School environment and curriculum
2. We must encourage teachers to encourage more.

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The main challenge you face as a secondary school teacher is a lack of time. A lack of time to knowing what is going on in the professional world, and a lack of time to teach your students about the little you know during classes.

As there has been a shift for more professionalism in teaching, direct contact between teachers and reseachers has diminished. As a teacher you can't just take part in a conference or visit a research centre because you have teaching obligations and now most conferences take place during workdays.
On the other hand, you teach several subjects and in each you have to cover many topics. All these makes it hard to devise carefully planned interventions which guide students towards a scientific career.

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The biggest obstacle in front of the teachers is the central examination system in the country and the prepared teaching staff. Teachers who have to apply standard curriculum within the class hours can not find time to work on STEM. Also, because of the test-based test system, many schools can not even use science labs.

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OPERATIONS MUST HAVE MORE COST MONEY FUND FINAL REQUIRED TRAVEL AND OPPORTUNITIES VISITORS CAN NOT BE ALSO INCLUDED IN THE ETITIM DISTANCE TO THE COURSE OF THE COURSE LIKE THE LEGISLATION CHALLENGES

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We have very good collaboration with the responsible of the Career Counseling Office in my region and we organize every year common activities.

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I am a science teacher in a secondary school . And we  have a lesson at 8th grade named "Guidance and Career Planning" . But all of teachers including me  in the school don't know what we have to do and how we can help students about this subject . I think we need a counsellor .

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Limited time - need to focus on exams. Teachers not being aware of all potential or emerging careers. No centralised databases of opportunities for teachers to get exposure to industry or labs, or of funding available, or of off-the-shelf classroom activities. No school policy on incorporating Careers education. I hope that this course will provide me with the evidence to change many of these in our school.

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My school prepares students in the profile: science, mathematics and I.T. We work to expand opportunities for students to link their learning knowledge to future career options. The Career Counseling Office encourages students to meet with our career counselor (I am the counselor !) in one-on-one appointments to discuss career exploration. We offer for students career fairs, discussions with experts , visits to university, internships in IT firms... Evaluating personal preferences, skills and interests is an important part of the career development process. Through this, we help students develop a better understanding of their skills, abilities, and career interests, and most importantly, how they relate to the workplace.
The  challenge at the national level is to ensure the existence of a career counselor in each school (unfortunately, not all schools have a counselor!) and the need for greater openness of science teachers to collaborate with the counselor and link the act of teaching knowledge with practice.

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Not to follow the latest scientific information about teachers. Lack of content knowledge about teachers' professions. The need for trainers to experiment in business and industry. The trainers' information is not only theoretical exercises, field work

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Teachers at my school also have difficulty finding funds. Parents' interest is minimal in this regard. We have material trouble.

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In my school we don't have a special person assigned as a career counsellor. There are some tests done by a school psychologist on what careers could be suitable for a student, and there are some field trip to nearby enterprises, but there is no awareness about the connection between what they are taught in the classroom and their future career. Only lately we started speaking about STEM careers and still teachers lack knowledge and skills in how to make them interesting for students

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I think the biggest challenges are fundings and time. It would be very useful to take pupils to science fairs, interactive museums, guided tours in manufacturing plants, hospital lab or inviting scientists with different backgrounds  to talk about their careers, but it requires money and we cannot expect pupils to pay for all these activities. There should be programs investing in young people development. These government programs should be based on the real needs of society and industry.
Also the teacher can be a good guide but he/she needs time to prepare him/herself in the role of counsellor. I think from my little experience that the problem in Italy is that there is limited o not at all collaboration with a counsellor or a counselling agency. We should accept the limit of the teacher who cannot become a counsellor without a proper training and work towards an increased collaboration with people trained in this job.

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The biggest challenge is to link theory with practice.

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Greece
In my school we do carrier concelling and really helps our students.
We try to attract students curiosity to stem subjects

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1. Lack of classroom resources to support student learning.
2. Difficult to support science career awareness.
3. Continuous networking with fellow teachers and research scientists.

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The most common challenges are :
1) lack of awareness on STEM
2) lack of professionals

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For sure one of the biggest problem in my school and country is the lack of lab classroom to support STEM learning. There are no carrer counselling, teachers sometimes get this role by themselves.

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The mix of formal and informal education is very important: is the way to get outside of the schools what is learned within them but there is an important problema, the problem is that teachers - or other people - want to spend time to other activities outside the established times

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In my school we are thinking to create career counselling.

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For vocational schools Erasmus+ mobilities are a good oportunity for career guidance and future orientation on the labor market. Visits in entreprises or meetings with people who followed a STEM career and are successfull

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There are two important challenges ;
first is lack of awareness about science career and importance(science is life not a diffuculties in school)
Second is lack of equipments ,labs in schools

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The most common chalanges are:
1. lack of classroom resources to support student STEM learning,
2. difficult to support science career awareness.

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I think the most common challenges found in my country are the lack of resources as well as poor information on the topic.
We don't have professional counselors who infuse career awareness and the love for science

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We don't have science counselor in Greece. All the job is made by the science teachers. They search the web for new achievements to show to their students. Even if therea are many science teachers workshops in Europe you have to pay in order to get informed and to pass the information to your students.

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In my opinion, one of the challenges that teachers face in the classroom is that they are not up-to-date with current employment opportunities and the current gaps. Some teachers to not liaise with a career counselor (when one is provided) in order to gain further information about STEM employment opportunities. Teachers should be educated about STEM skills and the current gap

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Most schools in my country don't even have a counselor. Only in some of them a teacher has to be the counselor, with of without being educated for that role. Otherwise, students only get a book about career awareness

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One of the greatest challenge of a teacher is to instill in student a real interest for a matter, not really linked to the test result, technology and everyday facts are helpful.

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TR

innovation development

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I am teaching in a kindergarten and STEM career aware

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I am a teacher integrating career counseling activities in math lessons

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There is no professional career counselor in my school and in many schools in my country. Career motivation is being tried by the guide teacher.
According to me, challenge is because we are directing them (our students) to certain existing vocations.
The solution is directing to imagine a formation other than the existing vocations. -not yet known vocations-
What it will need first for this to be determined.

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Teachers integrating career-counseling activities in the classroom (lessons, informal activities).

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Our school has not got a career counselor. Basically career information is provided by the teachers during the lessons. Also representatives of universities are invited to school.

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I teach in a primary school where the career counselor figure is non-existent. Despite this I think it is imperative that when our students are so small they provide them with concrete bases and apply the 4 pillars species the second showing them that scientists are real people who, as they have had difficulty and who have had to learn to reflect and count on their logical and creative abilities to form and improve themselves.

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One challenge I find in my school is to implement conjointly with my peers strategies in the classroom with the result student be aware of the importance of studying some issue form STEM.

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I am teaching in a private school. My school policy is emphiseed on students future career. for this reason, every year we orginize a career fair, also they have a chace to talk with proffesions, in adition on 11th grade students do a job shadowing.
As science teaching department, we try to give students a scientific view as mush as we can ( with lab experiments, science projects, etc.) but I think The main deficiency is that we don't have a connection with  science subjects and future careers

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Career counselling in Turkey needs to be improved as it started at not early ages.

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Career counseling in schools in Turkey has not improved very well. Career counseling is usually undertaken by guidance teachers. Other teachers are not able to undertake career counseling. There are many reasons for this. Teachers must stay connected to the curriculum. Because of the examination-based training, students often focus on getting high marks. For this reason, students often choose the careers they will be placed on with the points they receive. The placement system in the university ignores the interest of students in their careers.

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In our schools, there are exam counseling instead of vocational counseling. generally, this task is limited to guidance services in schools. whereas the occupational preferences of students are mostly concentrated on popular occupations such as medicine and law.

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In my school we have not professional councellors or coaching. Information about the different courses and secondary schools has been given by teachers.

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Most schools in Turkey do not have career coaching. We are preparing the student for his life, but we are not aware that we can not stop living. First of all, we understand the importance of career planning in our senses. Then we need professional support for this job. Once we have done all of this, we have to integrate training in STEM with other training. This process is unfortunately very difficult for my school ...

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We don't have counselor in our schools.

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In my country,in  the school,  the role of career counselor is taken by teachers. Often, they have not any informations about situation on jobs market, so they can not give right direction to students.But that's not their fault. The system does not work, there is no cooperation between the education system and the economy and the system suffers.

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We dont have professional councellors.Career awareness is not developed in our schools.We cant take attention our students to STEM careers.Its our main problem.So goverment should support teachers about STEM carriers.

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in 21 st century We should design stem class instead of traditional class.Hence We can take attention your student to Stem careers.Especially Stem careers counselling importantance shoul be taken place in schools.Altough School management and government  support the science teacher about STEM  carriers. These supporties are  not enough. Our traditional class capabilities is not good.

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in 21 st century We should design stem class instead of traditional class.Hence We can take attention your student to Stem careers.Especially Stem careers counselling importantance shoul be taken place in schools.Altough School management and government  support the science teacher about STEM  carriers. These supporties are  not enough. Our traditional class capabilities is not good.

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Unfortunately, STEM career awareness is not available in our schools. Also, there is not such a counselor training for teachers. We must teach the core curriculum in our lessons. Of course , when we teach a subject to our students, we can relate it to the real life, give a challenge and want them to design a product. So, we can educate ourselves about being a career counselor although there are no training opportunities for teachers.

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I think it is essential to integrate experiential activities in the classroom.
This helps students understand the tasks of each position in the search
set and "connect points" between what they are learning and how it can be used in real life.
Students working in groups can design research based on classroom activity, present them, and ask questions.

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Career awareness is not important in our schools and in our education system. Teachers themselves have to create a plan and reflect the class.

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Classroom resources is th most common challenge and although there are teachers who part of their job is related to careers, they are not well informed regarding STEM careers.

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counseling in Greece is limmeted and taken as seriously as it should...

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.- Lack of time during the regular course to planning activities and visits
.- Schools in rural sites are often too far from cities where the scientist and labs are
.-  Poor funds for students interships
.- No implication of the industries for promoting collaboration actions with high school teachers

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Career councelling should be a process after school orientation and life long Learning activity. So it should start early at primary school.
A good key point is sharing stem career benefit with parents, they still have a too big influence on their sons and daughters.

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Career awareness in Greece takes place in Secondary Education. Students are also informed through special courses. Anyway, the specific area needs improvement.

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I think there are too many challenges like Incorporate both formal and informal approaches, Connect the dots and so on...

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Lack of information is one of biggest challenges, lack basic classroom resources,
Our teachers do the job orientation with students just in the last year of gymnazium.

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Lack of information is one of biggest challenges. we all know what is STEM, and we got some idea what they do, but career paths often stay mysterious to us. we also lack basic classroom resources often work with no projector or computer in classroom , and are in lack of practical demonstration of lectures.

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Our teachers do not have the necessary focus, but they do the job orientation with room for exam score. this understanding can be found in reverse work.

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Teachers do not want to know the guidance of their students by leaving that responsibility to their parents.

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Many teachers do not want to work on themselves
to raise professional level

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We do not have professional councellors, besides science teachers are not aware of the 21st century skills including STEM.

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Teachers dont know much about career councelling, they are not professional councellors the importance of vocational training of teachers is not given

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Teachers dont know   much about career councelling, they are not professional councellors 

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Teachers dont know   much about career councelling, they are not professional councellors 

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Tanja

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Romania
Teachers do not have enogh time and they lack this kind of career training.

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We do not even have a kindergarten and career counselor, our school is a guide teacher. I think this is the biggest problem. Our teachers may need a good Career Counseling training, including mine. What are the future science professions? When we access STEAM, we may need what we love science children.