Think about your school. Do you know…? by EUN Partnership aisbl

Cornelia Melcu

corneliamelcu — 2021-11-29 11:14:18 UTC

In my school, most of the career lessons are integrated in the curriculum in most of subjects. Additionally, there are some subjects like Personal Development- from Preparatory to second class and Civic education for the third and fourth class, where career lessons are separate, as a topic. I often integrate career education in the school projects I run, because the young pupils are really interested in. In the gymnasium, there is the counsellor and the teacher who is responsible of the class who is teaching about career.

Nasui Alina

2021-11-29 12:29:30 UTC

Hello. I am a teacher at the primary School, at The International High School Of Informatics. We have an educative director who takes care about the extracurricular activities. We all do activities with children about the career.

Alina Mirica

alinamirica10 — 2021-11-29 12:43:38 UTC

For career education I organized various activities with the high school counselor. Also in the conducting classes we had free discussions on this topic.At school level we tried to monitor the student's preferences, in collaboration with all teachers and to propose interdisciplinary activities for a wide communication at school level.

Viorica, Oradea

vigyorika477 — 2021-11-29 13:00:07 UTC

In our school, a project on this topic has been going on for years. Specifically with colleagues from the Technical College "Traian Vuia" Oradea, a project of volunteering and career management of students in special vocational education. Meetings take place monthly, and special vocational education students learn how to write a Europass curriculum vitae, how to draw up a letter of intent, how to find a job in the labor market.

Carla Gabriela Sousa | Portugal

carlagabrielasousa — 2021-11-29 14:20:51 UTC

In my school who coordinates the vocational management of future professions are psychology technicians. It is the teachers' task to include in the curricular contents the exploration of how they were, how they are and still, how they can become. In some international projects like eTwinning we have worked on this theme. Some of the activities also include study visits for students to experience in loco what it is like to do that work.
In collaboration with all the teachers, we propose interdisciplinary activities.

Alina Safta

2021-11-29 14:53:44 UTC

I am a teacher in secondary school- students are 10 to 14 years old.
As a tutore of a class, I invite the counselllor to make presentation or try to present different high school.

The careers co-ordinator in your school is cousellor
We do careers lessons on our school or pay visit to high schools.
pupils are grouped for this work following their interests.
We do lesson plans, orgnize visits or presentation .
We use questionaires to identify their talents or for what they are interested.
For evaluating the activities we use journals, tests, Quizziz....
. teachers and pupils are involved in planning activities, visitis.

Isabel Corell

p5xk7c2872 — 2021-11-29 16:22:02 UTC

I know the careers co-ordinator in my school. They are psychologues.
the careers lessons, activities or learning tasks occur in the last year on post-compulsory education or students who have attended the age to finish the compulsory education;
All of them (last year of compulsory and post-compulsory education).
Their intended outcomes of the work is to give them possibilities to continue with their education.
The students are not very involved to choose the activities.
I teach my students (Erasmus Plus Team & French students) how to look for a job in EURES and how to complete their EUROPASS.

Teemu Hinkula

2021-11-29 16:55:38 UTC

We have an orientation unit which contains 9 members. Each of them has an own role. Our school is pretty new, especially the international branch. So we are just setting up many of the procedures.

We give them different kind of counselling in groups and privately based on their age. For example help with subject choices, learning skills, work experience and tertiary education. Some of the counselling are done by member of units, some by teachers who are instructed by the member of units.

We communicate via Teams, we ask feedback and keep record of our sessions (group and private counselling). We are also planning to make ePortfolio for students where they can save the info they need.

One way to evaluate career advising is as simple as checking the grades. This way we can see if students have made good subject choices.

Ivanka Tomić

ivaizprispa — 2021-11-29 17:32:23 UTC

8th grade students in Croatia go for vocational guidance, which includes professional information and professional counseling, which provides assistance to students in choosing a future occupation or education, and is carried out in cooperation with the school and parents / guardians. Special emphasis in this process was placed on determining the abilities, skills, professional interests and motivation of students, as well as on the possibilities of education and employment in a particular region. Special attention is paid to students who are expected to have difficult access to the labor market after graduation, ie students with developmental difficulties or serious health problems.
Students also visit high schools that have an open day for prospective students where they can get the necessary career information. Various surveys and questionnaires on the areas of their interest are conducted with the students in the class, and an analysis is made.

Corina, Romania

2021-11-29 17:52:44 UTC

In our school, career lessons are given by the lead teacher and the school counsellor based on the curriculum.
For career education, I involve my students in international projects suck as Erasmus+ VET mobility, eTwinning and JA Romania which bring them closer to the labour market.

Adriana Bujag

2021-11-29 19:49:24 UTC

I integrate most of the career lessons into Personal Development lessons. Primary school students like this subject. They can create posters, complete surveys, easily take an interview. This topic is still found in the IPC classes.

Hi. I'm a secondary school teacher. We have an educational counselor who deals with extracurricular activities. We all do career activities with the kids. Also during the conducting classes we had free discussions on this topic. At school level we tried to monitor the student's preferences, in collaboration with all teachers and to propose interdisciplinary activities for a wide communication at school level.

2021-11-29 20:08:35 UTC

Teresa Sofia, Portugal

tsofiagouveia — 2021-11-29 21:24:51 UTC

There are several people in my school in charge of guiding students and informing them of their options: the class head teacher, the school’s educational psychologist and the head teachers’ coordinators. We get the visit of university representatives every year (foreign and domestic) and the psychologist either visits the different classes or talks to the students individually. Every student has to go through aptitude testing at the end of middle school. There’s also an advice bureau open year round, that can provide more thorough aptitude testing at any point of the students’ education paths. By the time students have to apply to university, they should be aware of all they need to make informed choices regarding their professional future. This is especially important for the Madeiran students, as most of them will end up having to move to continental Portugal to further their education. Even though we do have a university on the island, the options are very limited. The students that choose double certification (high school diploma and professional training) also have to go through 600 hours of apprenticeship in whatever area they are studying. There is also a summer programme for students over 16, that allows them to work for a month each summer at a place of their choosing and they are paid for that work. Most of the subjects, at one point or another, will cover career choices, but in a very abstract way.

I have been working with high schoolers for quite some time now, so I feel that I can talk to them and advise them in an informal context. I can tell them of the procedures and how to look for the information they need (and in Portugal there are plenty of websites that can help them). However, I consider that I should work on building a more structured way of helping them choose their paths. The result of our work is visible only when, at the beginning of each school year, we are told the percentage of our students that were accepted at university and which degrees they were accepted in. We are never told what happens to those who choose alternative paths, as there is no reliable source of information regarding those.

LOREDANA RUBA, ROMANIA

rubaloredana2 — 2021-11-30 05:54:29 UTC

In my school lessons about careers and jobs are integrated in the class curriculum, and for elder students the topic is prepared by the school s coucellor.

Alina, Romania

u_alina81 — 2021-11-30 07:33:59 UTC

The preschool curriculum provides topics and activities that consider various trades, professions that children may have. There are thematic projects in which we discuss with the little ones what they would like to do in the future, what is the motivation for choosing these professions.

Monica, Sibiu

moni_oancea — 2021-11-30 09:38:41 UTC

In our school, projects on this topic has been going on for years, I participated in a mobility Leonardo da Vinci project in Plymouth, in 2006, there are nice memories here : http://e-lect.blogspot.com/ . There are several people in my school in charge of guiding students and informing them of their options: the class head teacher, the school’s educational psychologist. Now we collaborate with different firms for „ assist working”, it is a school project for a XI-a class, very usefull for carreer oportunities.

Erol, Turkey

2021-11-30 10:40:11 UTC

In our school, counsellors provide services. They give information about future jobs and do small exercises related to career development. They monitor students during the process. They invite professionals to exchange ideas.

Renata, Lithuania

2021-11-30 10:41:01 UTC

Since I work outside a school, I can tell about the general situation with career guidance in Lithuanian schools. Only starting from the next academic year all schools will have to have a career counselor position. Even primary school will have to have a career counselor. Until now there not in all schools pupils got career advise, because there was no one to do this job. In some schools teachers in other positions (like social pedagogs, class tutors etc.) took over the role of the career counselor.

Mădălina, Satu Mare, Romania

madalinasimpf — 2021-11-30 12:41:38 UTC

I have a colleague, she is actually the school psychologist, who gives career advice to pupils but this, unfortunately, only happens in the 8th grade, before the pupils finish their studies in our school and prepare to go to high school. I think that we could and should focus more on having lessons about careers, what opportunities our pupils have because it is not easy for them to choose their path at the age of 14-15 when they leave middle school. As a head teacher I will definitely consider doing some other activities that will help my pupils in choosing what best suits them.

Georgiana B., Romania

georgianabalanoiu9 — 2021-11-30 12:48:10 UTC

In my school lessons about careers and jobs are integrated in the class curriculum.
We also have an educational counselor who deals with extracurricular activities. We all do career activities with the kids. Also during the conducting classes we had free discussions on this topic.

roulax — 2021-11-30 15:18:54 UTC

In Greece ,especially in Primary Schools there are no career coordinators and no kind of career counselling.Our educational system does not actually support pupils discover their skills/talents . It is a "grade-hunting" system mostly...

Maja, Croatia

2021-11-30 17:03:35 UTC

In school where I work, we have so called "Open day" for our potential students where they can get guidance thru their future proffesion from teachers and current students. Aswell, we do integrate proffesional development in our class curriculum. Everything said is implemented on national level.

Jasna, Croatia

jasna_moscarda — 2021-11-30 17:38:07 UTC

During the final year in a primary school, school psychologist and school pedagogist inform the students about the variety of secondary schools, they make interviews with them, guide them in the choice, help them in the course of enrollment, students have guided visits in the secondary schools.

Ivannia, Costa Rica

2021-11-30 17:59:52 UTC

In my school, there is a counselor department to guide students in career education. Students are given extracurricular activities, conferences to inform them and discuss possibilities at foreign universities. These activities start at 10th and 11th grade. They also have the chance to attend a career fair where they have access to the different careers. In terms of tests to guide students, I do think my school does not use the best or most adequate tests. I know students are having problems choosing a career at the end of their studies. The problem is that teachers do not work on career education in their classes. They do not spend time on that, since there is no an instruction or plan from the head department to do it.

Voicu Corina Valentina, Romania-In my school there is a career counselor who asks us what courses we have taken, but who has never taken courses with us.

2021-11-30 18:15:16 UTC

Sajida Y nazzal , Jordan

2021-11-30 19:12:51 UTC

In our school the issue of educating students to turn to professions is the task of the educational counselor at the beginning in the first school, where he allocates lessons to guide and advise students to focus on the requirements of the labor market in line with their interests and capabilities.* Supervisors in the Directorate of Education visit schools to inform students of important information about professions and career

Ana-Maria, Romania

anamariagogelescu — 2021-11-30 19:30:16 UTC

Also in our school the career courses are integrated in the curriculum.

To better understand the idea of career lessons my students participate in various projects such as JA Romania or various extracurricular activities.
My students are still young, but as they grow older, they will participate in various lessons with the school counselor.

Mihaela Epure, Romania

emikkaela — 2021-11-30 23:22:57 UTC

I teach in a high school, so career education is quite important. Firstly, this issue is addressed by the form teacher, during the "counselling and guidance" classes, through specific topics related to the work market, different types of jobs and skills. Nonetheless, the form teacher is not provided with proper tools (such as tests, surveys) to determine skills or assess capabilities of students. Activities are based on information, discussions, debates. If the form teacher is really passionate about his/her job, he/she can invite professionals working in different fields to talk about those specific jobs and answer the students' questions about them. This isn't an organised school initiative, but the form teacher's private effort, based on his/her own inspiration and possibilities.
Secondly, applicable to the 11th and the 12th grades, once in a school year, the school counsellor develops some educational activities with the students, trying to apply some tests in order to discover potential talents and to guide students towards the relevant universities.

Zeynep, Turkey

2021-12-01 10:03:33 UTC

In my school, we have a counselling and guidance teacher giving advices to pupils. after the first two years of high school education students choose a field to study (social, natural, language etc)with the help of our teacher's guidance. Before students make a decision about the field they want to study, they sit for some tests to see their competences,interests, apts etc. During this process, every teacher (who has a class) helps to counselling teacher with the data collecting process and referring the students who needs more help to the service.
When students graduate from high school they sit for a university entrance exam. then they apply to the universities with their scores ,with the help of our councelling and guidance teacher.
Actually at the end of this process students decides mostly according to their scores and the salaries of jobs. They usually don't take into consideration their aptidutes or competences etc.
Our counselling and guidance teacher carries out some sort of questionnaires to identify the school general needs, then prepares a yearly lesson plan for each grade. Generally we teachers follow that plan in our counselling hours. And the counselling teacher makes presentations about the most important topics he identified. He asks us to fill in some reports evaluating that class after every counselling class, then he collects them and he himself writes a report to the ministry of education.

Adina Avacovici-Arad, Romania

avacovici — 2021-12-01 11:11:18 UTC

Erasmus+ VET mobilities of 3 weeks in Spain, Portugal a.o. for students of the 10th grade / 2nd year professional school, according to their profile - acquiring Europass documents;
”European Vocational Skills Week” activities
Workshops for textile designers; hairstylists with professionals
”Firma de exercițiu” - virtual entreprise
Questionnaires, tests, meeting with career councellor

Luminita, Romania

luminitap20041 — 2021-12-01 13:29:08 UTC

I teach in a high school .
My students participate in various projects such as JA Romania or various extracurricular activities based on information, discussions, debates .

Marco Vullo

2021-12-01 18:39:04 UTC

In my actual school we have a team led by two teachers who coordinate the activities in class and outside the school. In every grade we have more meetings per year with a smaller group of pupils (max. 20).
Attached you find the plan for this year. Particularly important are the work experience at the end of the 10th class and the external coaching for the 11th class.

Alzira Mendes, Portugal

2021-12-02 20:52:10 UTC

In my school, there are different people in charge of coordinating students in terms of carrer choices, but the class head teachers and the school's psychologist are the most relevant ones. Also, every year, representatives from different universities come to our school to enlight the students about their different future possibilities. Furthermore, there's an advice bureau that provides more information to all those who need it.

Lorena, Romania

topcsovlorena — 2021-12-02 23:49:49 UTC

I teach in a vocational school. Everyone in the school is concerned with helping students shape their careers from the first grade.

Visnja, Croatia

visnjavezmarovic — 2021-12-03 07:35:17 UTC

In Croatia, students at the end of primary school go to counselling in the institution which has the tests for it. But as I hear from the students , it is not very effective as they mostly ask you what would you like to go next, which school and then mostly agree with you. the same happnes when they are in the last year of secondary school. Before going to that counselling, we as headteachers have to write a liittle description and opinion what we think about the student and what are his good skills. We also have a service in school- a pedagogist, who works with them from time to time, but it actually depends all on the person, will he/ she do the work or not, and it is not a programe developed nationally that they have to go with every class, which would be better. We have open days when secondary schools present their programms to primary school kids. also University has open days too.
As a parent you could take your kid to a more detailed exam at a specailist- psychologist, and he will recognize more of your kids skills and good sides. But only 1 percent of parents do it unfortunatelly.

Rubén Gutiérrez, Spain

2021-12-03 21:23:14 UTC

In all Spanish High School there ir one teacher who works as education advisor that give information on occupations and courses, learning and career opportunities, progression routes and alternative choices.

Mariana, Romania

marianamunteanu139 — 2021-12-04 09:08:37 UTC

In my school the career courses are integrated in the curriculum. Every year, I involve my students in the activities proposed of Junior Achievement Romania. There we have a course about school and professional guidance or STEM education. Also we have a school counselor who involves the students in various activities.

Christina (Greece)

2021-12-04 13:49:32 UTC

What to say... in my country.. the professional guidance in secondary school structure is not a priority. This year via "Laboratory of Competencies" the idea is to work with pupils on the aspect of self knowledge, edu and work infos and decision making, but only one hour per week. We ll see the first results.

Vaska Pandova, RNM

2021-12-04 17:28:47 UTC

We dont have the co-ordinator in the school. The school psyhologist do the proffesional orientation with the students. I have this intergratе in my plan and lessons for occupation. The school dont has a resources for career education.

Isabel Quirino, Portugal

2021-12-04 21:31:47 UTC

Actualy, I thing Portuguese government is not recognizing the importance of Career Intervention in schools and in PES. Only a few number of young people have acess to good career intervention. There are diferent experiences in diferent schools and PES; good experiences occure from initiative of good professionals, most of the time based in projects with the support of community.

Mirela, Croatia

klaricmi — 2021-12-06 11:06:04 UTC

I don't think that my school is that involved in career guidance. Our school psychologist and pedagogue do have some guidence sessions with students who ask for them and there are also tests in some institutions bt students and their parents are mainly the ones figuring out where to go after elementary school. I wish we offered better assistance to children in making one of the most important decisions in their lives.

Željana, Croatia

2021-12-06 21:10:28 UTC

My school does not have someone specifically in charge of career development for students. Last year, when they move from primary to secondary school, they have some workshops with a pedagogue, but there is no real analysis. As for us teachers, we mostly manage on our own and develop our potentials

Ana Conceição, Portugal

2021-12-07 14:18:11 UTC

I teach in a high school. Students have some guidance mainly from the class headmaster and psychological technicians. The topic is also a content in some subjects.

Eman Bani Salman /Alamiria Mixed Secondary School/Jordan

2021-12-09 08:49:47 UTC

n my school, there is a counselor department to guide students in career education. Students are given extracurricular activities,

Carmen Alexie

2021-12-09 19:10:03 UTC

I am a teacher and I teach entrepreneurship education in high school and together with my students I discussed possible future careers in which I guided them to do what they like the most.

Maria Portugal

2021-12-11 12:36:19 UTC

The professional orientatiom of the students is made by the psychological technicians.

Izabela Bretan, Romania In my school we do not have a teacher who is teaching our students about career. The teachers are organizing thematic days about career and professions, they invite parents or other adults to talk to students about their career. In other days the teachers are organizing visits to different companies for students to see and if it is possible to experience. We also have some NGO`s concerned first of all about traditions where our students can experience traditional "jobs". Many teachers are integrating career lessons in the Curriculum.

izabelabretan — 2021-12-11 15:12:16 UTC

Maria from Spain

2021-12-11 18:32:56 UTC

We organise internships for European VET students in Spain. Before they arrive we ask them to do an online course with a module focused on career guidance (self-knowledge, CV writing, presentation letter writing and interview preparation). Once they are in Spain and before the start of their internship we also do an induction to the internship and world of work. This induction includes an interactive work on expectations, setting goals for the experiences, rules for success, etc...The internship experience is recorded with fortnightly monitoring meetings where informal chats and writing evaluations are done. At the end, in a final meeting, we sum up their conclusions and record their satisfactions considering different areas.

Lăcrimioara Săbăreanu - România

ifiwere2021 — 2021-12-12 13:34:58 UTC

In my school there is a school counselor, who in the 8th grade counsels students, applies career questionnaires, talks to them. In the personal counseling and development program there is a chapter dedicated to this aspect.

Paulo Ribeiro, Portugal

PauloRibeiro — 2021-12-12 16:38:16 UTC

Like in other Portuguese schools, the professional orientation is made by psychological staff. And it's also done at some measure by the teachers to.
I think is something we could improve like we can read here in another countries.

Francisca Spain

2021-12-12 22:11:43 UTC

I worked in a high school. Every mentor, the school counselor and the head teachers are involved in the career education. Also, professionals from different fields visit the school and explain their work, the students visit the university others high school, we have some Open Day, last year we have elaborated equipment for explain the matter

Buket Doğan

doganbuket968 — 2021-12-13 16:09:36 UTC

I am a teacher in a primary school. At my school, counselors and classroom teachers try to fulfill this task.

ruqaya

rkwaldh — 2022-01-01 21:39:10 UTC

Responsible for the work of the school principal.
Responsible for the lesson program, for students, the assistant principal..
The teacher in my school goes to the classroom where the students are constantly..

Asma aldrdoor

2022-01-05 19:26:24 UTC

I am teacher in primary school and I hope development my skill in teach in my school in classrom