2.1 Look(ing) into the future: Activity 1 - Option 1 by EUN Partnership aisbl

ΑFRODITI, GREECE , THESSALONIKI

2017-03-06 13:30:26 UTC

the first aim of all is to get rich as soon as possible, without effort, due to the economic crisis in Greece

Kristina Kaučić, Croatia

2017-03-06 14:05:19 UTC

As I have been teaching teenagers 16-18 years old, they were very angry when I proposed the task. Every single one of them told that they will emigrate somewhere where they would be paid for their work. Girls of course want to merry a rich football player. :)

ficanomaria9 — 2017-03-06 14:05:50 UTC

Nora, Italy

noraroxane — 2017-03-06 14:13:18 UTC

I suggest to my students a reflection in the happiness. What is the happiness for you, for your parents and friends? What does it make us hippy? Fortunately young people has a lot of hope and beliefs, but they are awares that today is very difficult to find their dream job.

lorella_gilotti — 2017-03-06 14:36:33 UTC

Lorella Gilotti
It is important to give students hints and suggest them to reflect and be positive.

Mara, Italy

mara_mosca77 — 2017-03-06 14:59:08 UTC

I asked my students of the 1st year (14 years old) about their dream job. The most common answer is to become a famous Chef ( I work in a vocational school for catering and hotellerie fields). The most interesting answer came from a boy who told he wants to cook for old and lonely people because he already does this for his grand father. He imagines himself in a big kitchen of a nice building surrounded by nature and a big pool. The guests decides the daily menu and help him cooking it. He said that when people get old they look like children and so he can cook funny and colored cakes!

Alessandro Michele, italy

2017-03-06 15:03:54 UTC

I asked to my students which are their aims and, them, I suggest to outline a list of priorities to follow every day.

Camilla, Italy

camilla_ciaccia — 2017-03-06 16:00:21 UTC

I asked to my students of a secondary school (aged from 11 to 13 ) about their future and they were
confused, some of them in fact have family problems such as unemployed fathers and mothers so that they can't think of their professional future.
Some others wanted to become journalists , doctors , vet, musicians.Only a few expressed the desire to become teachers. Where is the innovation? They prefer traditional and well payed jobs as always.

Andrea U, Germany

MrsU — 2017-03-06 16:02:44 UTC

Have a job that makes them happy. Not work as many hours as their parents.

Marianna, Italy

mmorgigno — 2017-03-06 16:17:36 UTC

I often work with my students about their dreams and their passions and hobbies. Many students love cooking and they choose vocational school. So I try to carry out these talents and we organize some lessons about cooking. Students cook at home and then they bring their foods at school. Each food is always linked with a specific theme, historic, geographic or literary theme, so my students acquire many competences

Andrea, Italy

2017-03-06 16:18:06 UTC

I asked my students (13-14 yrs old) about theri dream job. Only a small number of them have a clear vision of their future, most of them do not have an opinion. The future is something misterious.
Only one student stated clearly that is going to open a restaurant in southern Italy or in Spain.

Ida B.

2017-03-06 16:26:50 UTC

My students all seem to have high ambitions and they want to jobs implying a certain amount of responsibility and prestige. What they all have in common is their wish to move: all of them see themselves working abroad or at least in a big city in Italy, but all away from their hometown and in an international context. They affirm doing a job they like is more important than money but they all wish for a good salary allowing them to have a comfortable lifestyle.

Angelamaria Galderisi, Italy

soleemare_a — 2017-03-06 16:38:11 UTC

Once I asked the students of a last year class (Secondary High School) to imagine their future after leaving school. As a result, the classroom divided itself in three groups: some students wanted to attend an university course to take a degree and start doing their dream job, others thought to start working just after taking the high school diploma and the remaining part didn’t know what to do. So I asked the third group to think about some useful ideas or unusual jobs to undertake. The most interesting idea they develop was the possible invention of new apps!

Jasna

2017-03-06 16:48:13 UTC

My students (10 -13 years old) don' t have clear picture of their future but their imagination is wonderful. They saw houses in the clouds, money on trees, robots... Pessimistic students saw space ship wars.

Giovanni, Italy

2017-03-06 16:58:55 UTC

Generally in Italy the students imagine their work as a wish and do not pose a goal. I explain to them what schools to attend, and what difficulties may be encountered, making them reflect on steps to tackle. We discuss how to write a text may offer the opportunity to become a writer, musician, poet, writer, etc., or planning a trip you can work knowing languages in one of the States of the world.

Maria, Italy. My students are a bit pessimistic about their future. But their dream job is for a lot of them in the IT field

mepifani1958 — 2017-03-06 17:13:52 UTC

Alina Popa -Romania

popalina21 — 2017-03-06 17:16:40 UTC

I have always try to explain to my students the importance to be attentive at all around them. To keep working and learning and reading about everything , to be more engaged in their lifes and to combine study time with hobbies time. How will be their future without making a school, how can they see their work future or family future without the posibility and the capacity to be able to help, either their children too. Without beibg creative, hard working, entrepreuneur ..it is very hard to share and to live with. So,this is a test of future imagination and for now action.

Carla Asquini Italy

asquini — 2017-03-06 17:21:52 UTC

The boys generally want to become footballers, cooks or mechanics.
The girls have different ideas like doctors, writers, journalists, teachers, psychologists, lawyers, nurses, hair dresser. It seems that the girls have more visions than the boys

Sónia Fonseca

2017-03-06 17:53:22 UTC

Most boys want to become football players or policemen. Girls want to become hairdressers, ballet dancers, models, teachers or doctors. Most students are unanimous in saying they want to have a job that pays well rather than doing something they are passionate about... well, they're still 6 years old and I bet they'll change their mind along the way.

Clara Abegão, PT

claraabegao — 2017-03-06 18:04:27 UTC

My students are attending a VET health course, so when I asked them about their dream job, most of the answers went through health professions. They want to become doctors, nurses, psychologists, but all of them explained that they wanted to work few hours a day with a very good salary!

Sertan BALLI,Turkey

2017-03-06 18:04:48 UTC

I asked to my students " think that you are doing your dream job" i wanted them live their dreams for a moment "What do you think you are doing" I got some answers. One of my students said " In the future i am a teacher and now i am teaching the seasons" and then i stood the student up to the board and i said "for now you are the teacher, teach us the seasons" He was very happy when he stood up. And he take it seriously and he began teaching us the seasons. and i was acting like a student. ı asked some questions by raising my hand. I liked it too. when the bell rang we all together got out of the classroom with full speed. It was a great experience for him. and I don't think he will forget it.

Giuseppa Adriana,Italy

giusimudano1 — 2017-03-06 18:13:17 UTC

Actually, last week I asked learners to post two pictures about different jobs and to compare them.Considering what I have just heard from the video, I could ask them to choose pictures of their dream job and after considering pros and cons, add their proposal to change some details.

Cinzia Fiorentini, Italy

cinzfior — 2017-03-06 18:28:24 UTC

Most of my students understand the importance of foreign languages. Most of them want to learn more and use languages in their future jobs. They try to improve their competence because they want to obtain a higher level knowledge. Their vocabulary is getting better through songs, movies, news and articles connected with their interests. I feel very proud of that because I think they have opened their minds and they could be good future workers.

Betty-Greece

2017-03-06 18:44:31 UTC

i am not a teacher but as psychology counsellor i use this method to people in order to have the future that they want independent of their past

Çelebi, TURKEY

muallim3858 — 2017-03-06 18:53:43 UTC

Which profession do you choose for my students on life science lesson 'occupations' and why? I asked. The student in the picture said that he wanted to be an astronaut because he would take people as a tourist with the spacecraft.

tina M_Greece

tinamellos — 2017-03-06 20:05:53 UTC

When I asked my students of their dream work, the majority of them answered that it's not the job itself that makes you happy and creative but the ability/opportunity you are given doing it to promote what you consider to be of help (and respect) to the others.
I was quite amazed indeed

Cosimo, Italy

cdtataranni — 2017-03-06 20:06:12 UTC

I teach in a hotel vocational school, and I asked my students to imagine their future after school. Some of them said that their dream is to become a great chef and / or a large hotel manager. Many said that they imagine to travel the world working in the tourist settoe maybe after having completed his studies with a degree

Beate, Germany

2017-03-06 20:29:49 UTC

My 14-year-old pupils expressed their fascination with these jobs: film-maker, designer, photographer, doctor, singer and writer. What is interesting about this choice is the expression of their need to have a job that leaves enough room for imagination, experimentation and variety.

Giulia, italy

2017-03-06 21:10:50 UTC

my students imagine themselves as doctors, teachers, writers, heairdressers. They are very creative and have a large imagination

Valerica_ ROMANIA

dvaly2010 — 2017-03-06 21:24:22 UTC

As my students are very young- 6 years old- it is much time for them to change thier oppinion about the job they would like to have. I asked them and their wishes are connected to sportsmen, policemen , firemen- the boys; doctors, teachers- the girls. Some of them would like to have their parents jobs. One of the studetns told me he did not want to have a job. I asked him why. He answered he would like to be a truck driver , to drive all over the world. In his oppinion this would not be a job as long as it is for pleasure and you like it. So my students taught me a lesson to teach to the others: it is important to choose a job you like and you consider useful for you and for the community.

Virginia, Italy

virginia_aliver — 2017-03-06 21:29:52 UTC

I work as a rehabilitation therapist in a rehabilitation center. Students of a social health school, 16-18 years old, often come for alternating training, and when I ask them about their dreams for the future most of them responds medicine, psychology, rehabilitation therapy, but there are a lot of them who respond that they want to be a soldier, a policeman, a carabineer, an alpine ... makes me think ...

Stefania, Italy

2017-03-06 22:24:35 UTC

My students image to pursue studies at University, especially in science, few of them think becoming writers or journalists

Regina, Brazil

2017-03-07 02:25:57 UTC

My students come from working class families. They are very down-to-earth and aspire, at the most, joining the military. Very few of them dream of entering the university.
Most of the boys would like to become football players and get rich. The girls want to be hairdressers or sales-assistants.

Melanie C, Malta

2017-03-07 07:34:20 UTC

Most of my students come from working class families. Some of them want to have a job they don't want to study for...manual work like tile layers. Others dream of becoming professional footballers and ruby players. On the other side then, I have those who are really creative and would like to become computer programmers or designers...Some want to see a change in the world and want to become Veterinarians, doctors and lawyers.

Bojana ,Macedonia

2017-03-07 07:40:43 UTC

Most of my students want to be businessmen with their own business..... They dream and imagine a world without schools,want to study from home.But there are students who want to be politicians,they say politicians are popular and rich...

Cristina, Italy

2017-03-07 08:43:45 UTC

I work in a secondary highschool for tourism. My students split essentially in two groups: some want to became managers and lead their own business (they have international relationships as subject), the others see themselves in a big hotel or travel agency.

Marija, Serbia

2017-03-07 09:20:22 UTC

I asked one of my earlies class: What do you want to be in the future? We discuss a lot about the possibilities in our country and abroad. They wrote down they whishes and the way they will achieve them and we lock them in the time capsule. We agreeed to open it 10 years from their graduation. I have to wait 5 years more...

Stefano, Italy

prof_stefano_durso — 2017-03-07 09:43:04 UTC

In the past I had 2 different feedbacks. My last year class in an ITIS simply seemed really "indifferent"... that scared me a little bit... they are discouraged about the future and seem in any case not to react; another class instead was really interested in "start-up" opportunities to exploit

Evangelia Moula, Greece

moulaevang — 2017-03-07 10:24:05 UTC

In my country, financial crisis is so deep, that leaves very few space for visualization of a better future . Kids are discouraged and disappointed. They mostly dream of immigrating to Europe to find a job. Some come up with innovative ideas, but they believe that Greece cannot support their dreams.

I teach in a mountain school and children have expectations that reflect their reality; for example one of them makes ski racing and would like to make a ski instructor, another ranger, another still swimming teacher ...Surprisingly who has excellent skills would make works as a hairdresser or makeup artist or pastry chef.

2017-03-07 10:47:33 UTC

Sonia (Ancona)

2017-03-07 11:39:53 UTC

In a course of ASL I have asked my students if they had a business idea. A student told me that he wanted to open a chain of computer stores

Marianthi Arvanitidou-Greece

1canislupus22 — 2017-03-07 12:29:46 UTC

they haven't deceided yet They are very small

Vasiliki Psaridou/Greece

psaridou — 2017-03-07 12:53:14 UTC

My students are young but at the beginning of each school year I ask them about the dream job. This year I took part in a project about "jobs without borders", if I can use this expression. I asked my students to draw (they couldn't write at the beginning of the school year) what their dream job is. I found out that the chose the so called gender - jobs (girls wanted to become teachers or hairdressers and boys wanted to become footballers or policemen). So, I showed them pictures from other jobs that were done by the opposite sex and when I asked them to draw again their dream jobs, many of them changed their mind.

Slavica, Macedonia

teacher_slavica — 2017-03-07 12:55:38 UTC

A month ago I had a class conversation with my students about their job. We practiced vocabulary for jobs and everyone talked what they would like to become when they grow up(9 years old). All had different ideas, but mainly choose to work from the already existing present jobs. We talked as well about the jobs of their close relatives and daily routines. Next time I will lead them to reflect in a different way from the present existing jobs, be more innovative, maybe they will come with a suggestion to work some job that does not exist nowadays.

Daniela Spinella Reggio Calabria

daniela_spinella — 2017-03-07 13:04:41 UTC

I have asked my students to think about their future careers.
They revealed several answers, who is cultivating a passion imagines to realize managing to break through in the activity-school for which you are engaging other professionals are seen in specific disciplines that have studied in school and for which they have expressed interest and would like to deepen then in the future become expert

Maria Daniela, Italy

mariadaniela_renna — 2017-03-07 14:57:33 UTC

My students are 12-13 years old and imagine common jobs as teacher, doctor, lawyer, hairdresser, waiter. I asked them to think with imagination looking to the future. Many students changed their mind describing the job of their dreams.

Teresa Rita- Italy

2017-03-07 14:58:39 UTC

As I am a conversation teacher in a secondary school, I always invite my students to think about their future career, once they have finished their course study. The majority of them plan to go ahead with their further studies regarding the knowledge of foreign languages. They plan to have a job as an ambassador, or to become a stewart or a language teacher or an interpreter etc. So, I often devide the class and ask them to have a debate on pros and cons about the job that they plan to have. I also guide my students through future career opportunities which require digital skills. The method is Brainstorming, Visualisation, Discussion, using technologies.
The work can be done individually, in pairs, or as a group presentation.

emma giurlani Italy

2017-03-07 15:04:04 UTC

I teach german as foreign language at an upper secondary school in Italy. Two weeks ago I splitted the class into small groups asking my students to reflect upon their dreams for the future and confronting them with the ones their parents had when thy were the same age. The results have been discussed in Plenum. We noticed that beside the differenced due to the new emerging professions, the students generally dream of a dynamic future with more possibility to move through Europe and the world.

Anna, Italy

annaliardi84 — 2017-03-07 15:20:55 UTC

I am a high school teacher and I teach Italian and history in a hotel management school. Dialogue often with my studentisul their future. Most of them, hopes to trovarfe work out, while a minority think studi.Cerco continue to make him understand, day after day, of how important digital skills and knowledge of foreign languages. I hope to succeed

Paola, Italy

sinipas — 2017-03-07 16:05:20 UTC

I often have an activity on "your ideal job" with first year students (14 years old). This year I was impressed by the number of students who wanted to become a math teacher!!! I have realized that the quality they are most impressed by is the passion for his job that their math teacher is sharing with them. It is really consolatory! Another student chose teaching as NOT his ideal job, still the explanation why this is not an ideal job makes me feel proud. This is what Daniele wrote:

Michela, Italy

2017-03-07 16:05:31 UTC

I teach at a lower secondary school. Many of my students shared exciting dream jobs such as music producer, professional football player, and working in forensics. But others, and that surprised me a lot, struggled to identify a dream job.

Francesca-italy

francesca_neiviller — 2017-03-07 16:52:47 UTC

I'm a high school teacher and I teach English, and business English, I was curious about this point, Actually they told me they didn't know what job they wanted to do, but all of them told me they wanted to do a job they liked.

Tiziana-Italy

tizianadieli72 — 2017-03-07 17:21:42 UTC

No money, no dreams? 
I teach math and science at a primary school, to a third class (8 years old). My school is located within a risk area of Palermo (Sicily). Most of them is hothead and very poor.

Today I asked them to close their eyes for 5 minutes and to be carried away by the music in the future to see themselves as successful workers. In particular, I asked him to try to picture the place and the details of their lives. After 5 minutes they had to open their eyes and begin to write their dreams and their emotions. The experiment worked. The children were concentrated but the jobs of their dreams are surprisingly homogeneous. Most of my students want to be a professional football player (7/13), one of them the actor, two the hair dressers, two the singers. And one of them wrote of wanting to be a mobster too.
So, I want to share with you my considerations.

Unfortunately, behind the socio-economic poverty, often there is also a poverty of dreams. I think that these children need to be educated to dream and broaden their horizons. Sometimes teaching is really very hard, but perhaps that's where the real teacher's mission is.

Riccardo, Italy

rccrmn — 2017-03-07 18:14:54 UTC

I teach in a secondary fashion school and the feedback to this activity was very interesting, especially in that many of them chose professions not necessarily related to their vocational field of study. I noticed that, when left free to dream, teenagers see themselves as high achievers in the Arts, citizens of the world, smiling.

Francesco, Italy

babelemultilab — 2017-03-07 18:16:57 UTC

I'm a secondary school teacher and during this year I am working with my students on a project of a simulated company to develop the entrepreneurial skills in them. When I asked them to imagine their job future they answered me that in Italy it's very difficult to get a job especially if you are a young worker and they think that they will be going to foreign countries in search of a job.

Filomena Bianco, Italy

2017-03-07 18:30:37 UTC

I teach English at 11-14 year-old students. This morning I suggested my students to review how to express intentions and desires about the future. I asked them to concentrate on their dream job for this activity. They all expressed sentences like "I'm going to be..." or "I'd like to be...". Some of their dream jobs were really creative like musicians, artists, composers, dancers. However, what impressed me was that the majority of them think that their dream can't come true because of the difficult financial situation we're experiencing in Italy and , at some extent, in Europe. So, I tried to comfort an encourage them in believing it's really possible. I asked them to think "How can my dream job come true?", "What should I do?", "Which steps should I take to make it real?"
I'll know their answers next week.

Teresa Meli (Italy)

meliter1 — 2017-03-07 18:37:03 UTC

I teach business administration in a high school in Palermo. Today I asked to my students (14-15 years old) to tell me what kind of business would create if they had no constraints. After a while of bewilderment the students have begun to focus on some ideas. The boys thought to activities related to sports: gyms, football fields; the girls in fashion or beauty business. I asked them "Where's the news"? They began to add something to the original ideas by introducing ICT with service activities supported by app. I asked them if they thought they were prepared to be able to realize this dream. The most frequent answer was NO

Violeta Korkucyte, the UK

violeta7519 — 2017-03-07 19:23:49 UTC

My students are very young. I have asked them what they would like to be when they grow up. Some of them could tell me about their dream job and draw some drawings of their dream job.

I asked my students to develop an advertisement for their dream job. In the discussions about what they would like to do for work experience, there was not one student who could offer any ideas but when I asked them about their dream job, there was a good deal of discussion, enthusiasm and excitement. their responses were very interesting and opened their eyes.

jsmith24 — 2017-03-07 21:19:43 UTC

Carmela, Italy

postiglionecarmela — 2017-03-07 21:35:40 UTC

I always ask my students about their future job. Only few of them would like to continue their studies at universities, for example, conscious that only in that way they will be able to have better opportunities to find a satisfying job.

MARÍA, Canary Islands

laleli150 — 2017-03-07 22:01:13 UTC

My students are five years old I asked them about what they wanted to work with and they told me that they wanted to go to the Moon and stay there to work (they are working Space), that they were going to plant plants so that everyone could eat and breathe

Irène - Belgium

irene_indemans1 — 2017-03-07 22:08:14 UTC

My students are 12 to 14 years old. One of the activities we do during their curriculum and career planning course is watching short films about diverse professions, they selected beforehand. The films are created by the employment service VDAB.

My students are 11-14. I'd like to teach them the importance of dreaming. This terrible economic period killed their dreams

2017-03-07 23:09:59 UTC

Vocational schools in southern Italy

cpapaccio — 2017-03-08 05:49:46 UTC

I am an English language teacher. I also struggle with a lot of issues .In Italian schools teaching languages is very difficult first o all because we do not have enough time to expose students to the language itself and to do projects. In terms of vision, which has driven me since I was a teenager( I used to read science fiction novels a lot), they seem to be discouraged. The area where I teach shows high unemployment figures and my students( hotel and catering secondary school) do not seem to imagine a better future for themselves. They can only think of being exploited as they are already by local small and medium firms.
concetta Italy

Eleonora, Italy

2017-03-08 08:19:17 UTC

My students are 13-14 years old. I sometimes ask them about their future job, as they are leaving lower secondary school very soon, to start a new school cycle. They have no clear visions about their future life. After I read this task, I asked them to think about that in a different way and this is one of the feedbacks I got: work will take just a little part of the day, as most time will be devoted to what the student really likes, ballet. I asked her to consider ballet as a potential job, in order to combine work with passion. The student had never thought about that...

Edda, Italy

edda_caracino — 2017-03-08 10:49:15 UTC

Module 2 activity 1 Policeman,dancer, football player, lawyer,detective, soldier vet scientist,doctor:these were the dream jobs of my fifth grade classroom while doing an english lesson. Just two weeks ago I asked my students to immagine what they want to be when they grow up. I called this class project "30 years in the future".so they had to describe their dream job, the place where they would work, and their job uniform of the future

Nina, Ukraine

2017-03-08 12:39:50 UTC

I am a form teacher and at he beginning and at the end of a school year we have a discussion about their future profession.
Some of them want to be a designer or hair stylist. Some don't know.
But they think differently from year to year.

Melissa Esposito, Italy

melissa_esposito — 2017-03-08 14:28:28 UTC

I am a Maths teacher in an upper Secondary school and I asked my students to imagine their dream job. the most interesting idea is the following. A student, who studies informatics, wants to create a new kind of social network: you can write and read in a very particular way. You can share messages in an Anonymous way only with someone that is around you. I write a message when I'm in a Street (for example), to see that message someone has to pass from that Street and use this social network and so on. You can read a message left by Others only if you are in the same place in which the message has been written.

Kondylo Glarou, Greece

seagullitsa — 2017-03-08 15:17:06 UTC

I work in upper secondary school. My students are dreaming of entering the university. What will they become depend on their grades of the national exams they take in the end of C Class. They are discouraged and disappointed, though, if they find a job after their studies..

Teresio Alberto ITALY

teresio_alberto — 2017-03-08 17:28:40 UTC

I work in a secondary school. One of my students told me:
I want to become a politician, but a honest one in order to help to change my country so to become a just and beautiful country. We have a lot of interesting things in our country and we must show how beautiful Italy is.

Natalija, Serbia

dikovicnatalija — 2017-03-08 17:46:57 UTC

My students ages were from 11 to 15 years. The vast majority does not have a clear view of their future occupation. But most often mentioned developers, tourism workers, car mechanics, doctors, etc. Rarely opt for a professor.

Emel, TURKEY

mlaydn — 2017-03-08 21:15:28 UTC

My student said that he just wanted to be an architect who designed the building for the handicapped.

Maria Georgiadou, Greece

mariageorgiadou — 2017-03-08 22:00:12 UTC

I am french teacher in the 1st junior high school of Rhodes and recently, I asked my students to form groups ,find the name of their group, their subject and their final product I( I gave them 7 types of final products to choose). Some of them didn t like the idea, some others have been fascinated. I gave them freedom that they usually don't have. I think that they are happy and they discuss with great interest about their ideas. My vision is to have happy students around, with a strong will to learn. I don't know how! But Iam trying!_

Enrica Maragliano - Italy

EMGe — 2017-03-09 07:47:49 UTC

I teach Math and Physics in a upper secondary school and my students are grown up: some of them are at the last year before University and some of them have a clear mind about their future, while some are still trying to find out what they can do. In this period of economical crisis, it seems that you should try to follow a career more oriented to the job they can find than to what they really like. And some are discouraged and think that they will study a lot and will spend their future life doing an under-skilled job. Our school tries to orient them in their choice but for some of them is not easy at all. We discussed a lot in the past and also in the last days. For sure the ones who think to follow a STEM career are more optimistic than the ones who would prefer to follow with Humanities (we are a classical lyceum, so Humanities are the main subjects)

Reda

reda_raciuviene — 2017-03-09 08:31:43 UTC

I asked my sevenformers (13-14 years old students) about their future jobs. Almost all of them answered that they want a well-paid job. The reason is not only to become rich, but to have enough money for a successful family life. They imagine themselves as excellent professionals and the most popular professions named by them were a lawyer, a doctor, a dentist, a vet. All of them told that if there was their dream job, they could work full time and even overtime. I found them very positive about their dreams, but one thing made me sad - almost all of them told, that want to live and work abroad.

Despoina Amarantidou, Greece

2017-03-09 08:36:18 UTC

I teach English at a Primary School of Drama, a town in Norhern Greece. The coursebook of 6th class deals with professions and jobs and we do some tests to find out about inclinations and trends. Most of the times, they agree with the findings of the tests. Apart from this, students make their plans about their future occupations in connection to their dreams.

David

david_galiana — 2017-03-09 11:33:34 UTC

Teaching Math. Most of my 12 year-old students only want to achieve everything without effort. They don't see themselves as adults deciding about their life. They are only worried about the answer of the question, they don't mind about the way to getting to the goal.

Ana Pinheiro (Portugal)

aipinheiro — 2017-03-09 12:14:29 UTC

A student - In short, she liked to play a role as founder of a non-governmental organization - "Spread Love" - to help orphaned children in India.The foundation would aim to provide a better life for these children (basic care, education ...) and find families to accommodate them.Working hours include hours of leisure (paid). Provide a good environment for everyone.

Sonia Italy

2017-03-09 12:48:39 UTC

Often a dream job is a well-paid job which require very little work and a lot of travelling around the world.
However, some would like a job which benefit the whole community and make a difference for others. For example, building more shelters for homeless people.

Sophia Kouzouli, Greece

sophiakouz — 2017-03-09 14:48:51 UTC

I did this activity with my 2nd graders and my pupils came up with saying that tηey would like to be carpenters, gardeners, teachers and did not mind working a lot. When I did the same activity with my 6th graders they said that they would like to do sth that would give them a lot of money without working everyday.

Steph Italy

2017-03-09 17:19:14 UTC

The children wanted to do a wide range of jobs and they said that they believed that people can be whatever they want to be, if they have vision and work hard.

Egle Sala, Italy

sala_egle — 2017-03-09 20:35:08 UTC

Most of my 10 year old students imagine themselves like "famous" footballers or like doctors. This second job is the dream of girls. They have clear ideas about the possibility to improve the scientific reaserch with miracoulous medicines. Their future world vision is very optimistic as children have to be.

Veronica, Italy - I teach English in a Catering and Hospitality training school and my students have the possibility to train and put into practice their ability or passion for cooking or hospitality/welcoming practice. Actually, they know this is their only chance, so they aim at reaching the best in whatever they do. Their dreamjob is abroad, as they aim at earning the most they can.

2017-03-10 07:55:42 UTC

Norma.lisa

e_springles — 2017-03-10 12:04:03 UTC

Nice, vision, I deal with teenagers and Adults, There visions are so different. When talking to them, some teens want to change the world, others think about becoming a player of soccer team, some girls dancers. Other lawyers, doctors, CPAs. Though when I ask to the small ones, they make me feel so well... Their visions are of dreams come true.

Katarzyna, Poland

kasiw — 2017-03-10 16:29:55 UTC

My secondary school students would like to enter different univeristies. Some of them said they wanted to become doctors, vets or pharmacists while some others would like to study foreign languages and have jobs related to that.

Martyna, Poland.

2017-03-10 18:02:29 UTC

Many of my students do not have concrete and precise plans as for the future job. They think ot continuing education at the university. Those few who have already decided would like to be lawyers, teachers or would like to set their
own companies.

Antonietta, Italy

2017-03-10 18:34:59 UTC

I did a short activity in all my classes. Most of my students have no clear ideas about their future plans. They are only from 11 to 14 so they would like to be everything special and attractive such as a famous singer or actor and they change their minds everyday. Some of them would like to become doctors some others teachers but all of them imagine themselves happy and rich. Most of them would like to travel and visit several foreign countries in order to meet new people. Their visions are so different !

Gabriella, Italy.

gabriella_fileccia — 2017-03-10 18:36:01 UTC

I did this activity with 9 years old students. They enjoyed it very much!

(Antonella - Italy)

anto_gioitta — 2017-03-10 19:53:26 UTC

I work in an Italian vocational school. I always encourage my students to think about the future and get inspired to find their way. When asked what they would be as adults or what jobs they would like to do, the answers are very different. Some students have idea. They don’t have future plans. They say they live day by day because discouraged by the financial problems in family and the lack of stability or difficulties in finding a job. . Others say they would like to get specialised in a specific field because this makes it easier to find a job. Generally speaking they are confused and have not always future perspectives. Only few have clear in mind wahat to do after leaving school.

Özlem Talip, Ankara/Turkey

ozlemtalip — 2017-03-10 20:00:38 UTC

My students, in the this picture and they said that they wanted to be a scientist because They want to change the world.

Pop Dina, Romania

popdinaclau — 2017-03-11 07:06:27 UTC

Our students should teach them to develop an entrepreneurial spirit. It refers to:

1.      they to want to make money;2.      public speaking;3.      they ask questions;4.      they learn from mistakes;5.      how to sell;6.      not to give beaten;7.      to be creative;8.      them to be thrifty;9.      they should seek help;10.  to choose the best solutions.

Maria Vasilopoulou, Greece

mbasilopoulou — 2017-03-11 08:13:30 UTC

I tried this activity with a group of students whose school performance is not very good. Most of them were afraid to visualise I think as what they want is something that needs diligence and determination which at this point of their life they lack. There were some others who liked the idea of working less and be highly paid.A third group were highfliers with university studies in their plans as well as chasing their dreams. I believe the economic recession in my country has strongly affected students' life and hinders their dreaming.

Stefania, Italy

2017-03-11 10:28:17 UTC

Often I try to encourage all students to imagine their dream job, but most of them responds that still does not think about it. Those expressing some idea, imagine to do something related to the studies they have undertaken.

Elena Volpicella (Italy)

elena_volpe64 — 2017-03-11 10:37:41 UTC

Is known that italian educational and inclusive laws are at the vanguard, but i come across an enormous difficulty to share good practices with most teachers.
Indeed, in my classroom activities i always hope to meet theachers who think as me.
If i ask my students: how do they imagine themselves in their future life?
They answer me: " i don't know what they'll do when they grow up?
That happens when the "Plan of vision and action isn't thinked by all stakeholders.
So, i go and see forward because my students must be project themselves in the future..... a future always more frequently full of challenges!
In this way i coach my students to shallenges's life!

Maria Sourgiadaki

2017-03-11 17:26:03 UTC

"Imagine your dream job" is an activity that I usually do during the vocational guidance courses. I ask students to draw a stairway, with their image in the bottom and their dream job on the top of that stairs. Students have a difficulty in visualizing their-self in the future. It takes time and a lot of reflection.

Giuliana, Italy

giuliana_lalli — 2017-03-11 18:01:10 UTC

It is an activity that I propose different times during the year and in different classes. I teach at a technical school and many students did not choose this school for a real inclination, but because motivated by other reasons. Very often the parents decided for them.
The result is that some engage in the study and they have very clear what they will do after school, others (many) are very uncertain or rather imagine careers far away from studies. This second aspect is not all bad, but they could spend this year in achieving their goals. I push my students to follow their dreams and take stock of everything that they learn at school, so they can spend their skills in other areas, different from the course of study

Maricarmen, México

maricarmen_mariabonita — 2017-03-11 18:09:50 UTC

As we live in a huge and beautiful city, when I asked "how do you imagine yourselves as professionals?" They immediately answer: I will work in something with lots of fun. I will work where I can walk from home without driving. I will make lots of money with 4 hours a day job. I will use lots of technology in my job. I will travel a lot. I will work from home...
In fact, my students would like to have a funny job from home to the world, with technology, that will help them to make lots of money! I wonder, where is happiness?

Teresa Casa, Italy

teresacasa — 2017-03-11 19:12:36 UTC

As I already said, I teach in a vocational school (confectionery production and gastronomy services , tourisme and hotel accommodation). In this context, many of my students dream of becoming successful professionals. They would like to work in prestigious companies or start their own business, after making experience possibly even abroad. They have a bit of fear for the future, considering the current economic situation in our country, especially in Sicily, but some of them are ready to get involved to overcome the difficulties acquiring skills and enriching their education.

Adriana Lefter , Romania

2017-03-11 19:17:53 UTC

I`m a primary school teacher and my students are 10/11 years old and some time we have this kind of activity - Our dream work . My students don`t have clear vision about what they want to became in the future, but they know that they want to use techologies in their jobs in educations, scince, researching , inginiering , medicine. I have in my class students with beautiful dreams, students that want more from their future, they love to learn and I`m sure that they will get jobs they want

Maria Tindara Celona, Italy

2017-03-11 19:53:59 UTC

"A robotic dream". My students dreamed of a future in which they had not to work, since robots would have worked in their place

Adriana Laze Albania

adrianalaze — 2017-03-11 22:08:24 UTC

It as an usually question to my pupils about their future. Actually not most of them but a minnorance are so exited to be someone in their life only by their hard work in studies . The others think that thy can earn so much only by having an own activity . They think that it is easy, but when I ask them to solve simple problems by using the Math , they think in a critically way and gives me right .

Spain- Juan Diego /

2017-03-11 22:38:08 UTC

I asked my son, he likes to be Veterinarian, and it was good enough, he want this for his future. He is happy with that, I am happy too.

Daniela Ambrosi, Italy

danielaambrosi — 2017-03-12 00:05:04 UTC

The boys must have a vision of the future that involves them and abboa a dual personal and social purposes.

Giuseppina - Italy

2017-03-12 07:58:42 UTC

When I usually ask my students to imagine their dream job, their answers sound like this:
"I want to do a job that involves very little work, allows to travel a lot and offers the opportunity to make some good money".
But I wonder lastly: after watching a film that deals with complex themes (power, control, ethic, fear, corruption, human condition) linked to everyday life, a student said: "I want to become an intelligence officer. I want equality and justice for each citizen".

Emilia/Romania

Emilia_T22 — 2017-03-12 09:30:26 UTC

The trend of jobs in my school nowadays is to become a famous blogger/vlogger to work with technology or to be footballers.There are students who make tutorials about different games

Barbara, Italy

barbaradipa — 2017-03-12 11:32:47 UTC

In my classes students are 12/13 and 13/14 and are divided between those who are going to continue their studies to become doctor, engeneer, computer programmer, graphic, and so on and those who aren't going to continue with University and think to practical jobs as mechanic, hairdresser, plumber, waiter, etc. Their decision depends most on their families' cultural background and the chance to be beared while studying of course.

Ankica, Croatia

2017-03-12 17:07:32 UTC

I teach highschool students and what most of them want to do after they finish college is something connected with ICT, engineering, business, medicine and pharmacy.

Mariarosaria -Italy

ropep — 2017-03-12 17:50:04 UTC

I teach in a Secondary upper school. The most of my students would like to attend university, economy, tourism and some of them law.
Some students think to pratical jobs such as travel agency manager, or hotel manager, acoountant

Giuliana, Italy

2017-03-12 17:56:50 UTC

My students belong to a secondary upper school. Most of them nurture great dreams ( they want to become dancers or scientists or football players) while others have plainly said they would like to do nothing and earn a lot. Maybe a great challange for a teacher consists in not trusting the assertion of the latter ones and help them understand the value of being proactive in life.

nickregata — 2017-03-12 18:36:03 UTC

his is an activity that I propose many times durant my teaching career. Very ofen the parents decided for the students. I push my students to follow their dreams and take stock of every thing that they learn at school, so they can spend their skills in others areas, different from the course of study.

Profanna, Italy

annamariapani — 2017-03-12 18:56:35 UTC

I teach in a vocational school. Most of my students don't have a dream job. Often they say they don't know exactly what they want to do in the future and are very uncertain or imagine careers far away from studies.

Vero, Italy

2017-03-12 20:28:55 UTC

I teach in a primary school. My students (9 years old) tell me about their dream job, they do not yet have a clear idea of what they will do. They wanted to do a wide range of jobs and they believe that, working hard, will be able to realize any dream.

Alessandro Marinelli, Italy

maralex100 — 2017-03-12 21:28:41 UTC

My students (19 years hold!!) are very confused about their future work to attend, even if they study in a technical high school on business administration. That's because most of them have a big FAIR of the future. Every day I spend many words to my students they must be fearless about future.

Maria Georgiado

2017-03-12 21:49:06 UTC

I asked my students about their favourite future job and many of them would like to be doctors, especially veterinaries, lawyers and criminologists, probably influenced by some TV series!

Clara Elizabeth Báez -Reggio Calabria - Italy

2017-03-12 21:54:08 UTC

My students know very well that is not time to dream and they should think about new ideas to develope and to create opportunities . Take a look of the creation: ties made with cork and bergamot

Marina. Tuscany,Italy

mafina2000 — 2017-03-13 05:23:00 UTC

In this MOOC I have the chance to lear a lot about spotting opportunities, visualising. Having asked my students about their dream jobs, many of them don't have any, some of them don't have decided about their future, some of them can't visualise their future life, many find it hard to deal with daily problems includind their relationships. They strongly need to focus their attention on something that is valuable for them. I teach in a secondary school and at times I believe that as a teacher I haven't understood yet what can be done to have more interested students, to engage them in the process of learning. The school is made up of people, I know.

marina, italy

2017-03-13 16:04:37 UTC

when I asked my students to think about their dream job and try to visualize it, they told me they didn't know how to do it and that they were never taught it in scool. Most classes focus on teaching students basic facts, theories, and what previous great minds have discovered. Few, if any, focus on helping them discover who they are, what their potential is, what they would like to do with your life, or what their dream job is

Donata

donata_sartor — 2017-03-13 17:54:35 UTC

I teach in an agricoltural secondary school.
All of my students would like to work as farmer or in a processing industry.
The family of those who want to work as farmers generally owns and runs a farm. The other want to start a new business:
- run a biological farm
- make cheese
- work as gardener

Vincenzo, Italy

vincenzoporzio80 — 2017-03-14 08:56:58 UTC

I teach music in a musical secondary school.
My students dream of a career in the world of music.
They imagine themselves as:
- soloists on the most prestigious stages
- famous pop singers
- sound engineers

Fausto Finocchiaro, Catania

2017-03-14 11:48:11 UTC

I teach Physical Education in a secondary school. My students dream of a career in the world of sports. They imagine themselves as world champions, everyone in his favorite sport.

Caterina Speranza Italy

2017-03-14 14:45:07 UTC

When I asked my pupils about their dream job, one told me that when he will grown up he would like a scientist... "Io quando sarò grande vorrei fare lo scienziato perchè mi piace fare gli esperimenti... studiare la vita di tutti gli animali.... Vorrei sapere anche gli animali piccoli come per esempio le formiche come fanno a prendere cose molto più grandi di loro. Questa domanda me la pongo sempre ma non trovo una risposta."...

Kapoglou Chrysovalandou, Greece

valentinas — 2017-03-14 15:03:10 UTC

When I asked my students, what their dream job would look like most of them told me that they would like to become a doctor, teacher or lawyer. There where only very view students, who said they would like to do something creative or innovative. They also said that they would like to work only a few hours and earn a lot of money

Anna, Italy

ar_b — 2017-03-14 16:18:30 UTC

My students want a world in which everyone works a few days a month and earn very much

Maria, Italy

marinellagrassi3 — 2017-03-14 20:04:13 UTC

I usually do this kind of activity in my grammar lesson when I introduce the future tense with "will" so I ask my students about their future desires and jobs and it's very interesting to see a big motivation on this topic. They enjoy predicting , dreaming and thinking their future aspirations and desires; they can express themselves and in the classroom there is a positive energy that help us in our teaching-learning process.

Mario, Italy

2017-03-14 21:15:50 UTC

When I ask these kind of questions to the students, I always get a wide range of different answers.
A lot of them does not really know what they would be like, maybe because they think what they MIGHT be like. Others think about being an engineer, a doctor, a scientist and, especially lately, an entrepreneur.

My students would like to work little and earn much money

2017-03-14 23:08:27 UTC

vita Italy

monaco_vita — 2017-03-15 20:39:13 UTC

I teach Italian in a secondary high school , when i asked my students about their future job most of they said want to attend scientific universities

Ali,Turkey

2017-03-16 10:04:06 UTC

when ı asked to my student they want to be popular jobs. doctor, teacher, lawyer...

Maria

marican — 2017-03-16 11:53:32 UTC

MariaAntonietta-Italy

marican — 2017-03-16 11:53:34 UTC

If I ask my students about their future job some of them don't kown, others want to become footballers, doctors, hairderessers.

Anna, Italy

annabattigelli2005 — 2017-03-16 17:36:33 UTC

Some of my students dream big....not in the sense of academic career, but they would like to be inventors or something like that :-)

Maiia, Ukraine

s_maya — 2017-03-16 23:06:28 UTC

My students are not different from their peers from other countries: they wonna be successful, respected, work little, earn much and have a villa in the Caribbean. But some of them have already made a choice as for their future job. They want to be artists or doctors, or sailors, or so.

Ada, Italy

2017-03-17 16:39:54 UTC

I asked my students about their future and they answered with big dreams. Some of them want to become footballers, famous actors or singers. the most creative want to be artists or scientists

Angela Gordino, Portugal

angelgordino — 2017-03-17 16:55:18 UTC

After launching the challenge all the boys in class just answered they wanted to be rich and a famous footballer like Cristiano Ronaldo. They said that having his lifestyle would be the best as a dream job.The girls just kept quite and after insisting some said they couldn't imagine because they didn't know what they wanted to be in the future. By not having an idea of a future career the girls found it difficult just to imagine something they think is a dream job. Some answered being a doctor or a lawyer. They wanted to earn a lot of money.

viki dogani, greece

2017-03-19 10:39:26 UTC

My student want to find a job, earn money, be ritch.

Anna, Italy

2017-03-19 15:16:49 UTC

I am a teacher in a primary school. When I asked this question , they answed about their future jobs. They are very nice!

Lidia, Italy

2017-03-19 16:43:30 UTC

I asked my students how They immagine their future, they said it will be wonderful , They want to be lawyers, famoso footballers, hairstylist,teachers. ... One of the said He want yo

Antonina, Italy

elisa_spina83 — 2017-03-19 18:36:31 UTC

I did this activity with my students. It was so insparing for them and I fond their answer very interesting. Most of them love umanistic subject but they want to do somthing really practical like doctor, architect, ect

Aurora- Italy

aurorpagano — 2017-03-19 18:57:50 UTC

I teach in a primary school for children aged between eight and ten years. I asked my students to imagine what will be the largest after school. Much they said they want to travel the world on business

Carina - SwedenWhen I did this in a group with 15 year olds, they had very poor imagination about the future. I mean they were held back by the box and they had difficult times to think creatively. Then I did this with a group of 11 year olds. Their thoughts were more innovative and playful and they started to build a town in the future because it was easier for them to think the society first and then they thought about what jobs might be needed here. After that they thought about what schools and education must be like, to meet this society, this town. Then they wanted us to find future-scientists because they want to show their results to them. So that is where we are now, we seek future-scientists.

carina_hafren — 2017-03-19 19:03:22 UTC

Many answers, but the one that troubles me is:

2017-03-20 03:39:19 UTC

"Difficult to see any future without food on the table, and everything around you that is crumbling down" That was not uttered with resignation but hate.
I guess that is related to the lack of opportunities of a barren environment kept such by a unfairly competitive environment oriented by profit alone.

Most of my students are only "today" centered, just few of them has a clear vision of his/her future

2017-03-20 09:44:30 UTC

Victoria - Bulgaria My students are 8-10, years old. The boys mainly want to become firemen, policemen or footballers. The girls have lots of ideas as models, singers actresses, doctors, nurses, teachers, shop-assistance… They have more ideas about their future :-)

2017-03-20 17:42:33 UTC

Adina Marcu,Romania

adinamarcu9 — 2017-03-20 18:17:12 UTC

My student are 7 years old.Boys wants to become a famous soccer,cooker,or designer. Girls wants to become teacher ,dancer,painter or designer.Lots of ideas :)

Seher-Turkey,

cugs_15 — 2017-03-22 10:40:51 UTC

My dream job is my current job!
I am a teacher in a secandery school. When I asked this question , they answed about their future jobs. They are very nice!
Astronaut, driver, History Professor etc

Bianca B., Romania

bbyancka — 2017-03-22 18:05:18 UTC

My students are 9-10 years old. Most of the boy want to become football players and policemen while the girls want to be teachers, doctors and painters.

Iuliana, Romania

iulyanaivan — 2017-03-22 18:54:22 UTC

Students imagine your dream jobs as singer, doctors, cops etc. I have two girls wanted to become teacher like me.

Kaire Hakk, Estonia

2017-03-23 08:31:09 UTC

The younger kids are the more brave ideas and thoughts about jobs in future. 12 years old students wanted to become doctors, members of rescue teams, police, teachers, vets, drivers etc. 15 year old students were more worried about the future studies than imagination of jobs. The main thing most of the group (15 students) pointed out was that they would like to continue on upper secondary level and go to university. They said they cannot tell anything before they´ve got a chance to study. So, it means that our educational system more or less kills the fantasies or at least they don´t want to speak before they have achieved something. I don´t know whether it`s bad or not but I see the need for encouraging students to feel free and just imagine!

Sal, Italy

2017-03-23 20:01:36 UTC

I asked to my VET class students to immagine their dream job. They was excited to do this activity. They worked alone. This activity take one hour lesson. to sum up, some students describe some unconvincing types of job; others describes conventional jobs, such as taylor or fashion designer; others expressed doubts about their working future.

Irma, Italy

2017-03-24 16:12:30 UTC

I asked my students to talk about their aspirations about the wished job, their dreams and if they could immaginate a new dimension of working activity of the future.
Their answers were rather conventional: football player, football manager, martial arts teacher, hight trend designer, commerce operator at the rional market. Nobody thought about a job that could challenge his minds and that requires too much studies and diligences.

Anna, Italy

annacav2008 — 2017-03-25 16:41:25 UTC

I work in a secondary school (istituto tecnico commerciale) and when I asked my students how they imagine themselves in the future most of them could only think about themselves "free" from school. Even at the last year boys aged 18 still think about becoming famous footballer

Alcira MF, Germany

amulf — 2017-03-25 21:21:43 UTC

Most of my students don’t know what they want to do after school. They are quite skeptical about their future. Others want to make their job out of their hobbies (e.g. gamers, car lovers, etc.).

Cristina, Portugal I'm not working with students but with teachers and I just "transferred the challenge to them". I'm waiting for their feedback on this. The challenges we share with teachers in the project involve this sort of activities.

2017-03-27 18:21:34 UTC

Annarita, Italy

annarita_rungetti — 2017-03-27 21:46:59 UTC

I teach German at a vocational school for catering & hotelaccomodation, service, pastry. So my students are used to think of themselves as professionals from the beginning of their school learning path. Some of them told they have no clear ideas/vision of what they will do in the future. The most of them answer they want to travel around, to work and live abroad (in London or Berlin) in order to learn more about their work and job-opportunities, also to set a company

Cristina, România

2017-03-28 14:45:07 UTC

When I asked my students about their dream job they told me they don't know exactly what they want to do but certainly it has to be very well payed: a famous football player, singer, actress or something :)

Mariapaola Biondi, Italy

paola_biondi19 — 2017-03-28 21:24:07 UTC

Some years ago a student of mine took a picture, and won a prize: her objectives were job, family and money.

Atanasija,Croatia

2017-03-29 19:38:40 UTC

My students are 10 years old so they are full of ideas for their dream jobs - from being a jockey, IT administrator, teacher, judge, army pilot. Most of them would like to work outside of any building.

Sevasti Milona, Greece

sev_asti — 2017-03-29 20:33:00 UTC

My pupils are 7 years old and the dream of most is to become teachers, footballers and doctors. However, no one can understand the routine οf a work and the mandatory time.

Angeliki Kougiourouki, Greece

akougiou — 2017-03-29 21:56:11 UTC

Some of my students said that they would like to be astronauts or online game designers. They don't care about the time they will spent on working or the money they will earn. But, some others, although they had an vision in the past years, nowadays are more realistics thinking that they maybe could not be able to find a job if they follow their vision.

Antonino, Italy

2017-04-03 23:58:42 UTC

Many of my students say that they would be a conductor and compose songs.

giulia italy

2017-04-04 21:28:22 UTC

some students say they would like to be doctor or hairdresser

Luigina Astorino Italy

20febraio — 2017-04-07 08:47:49 UTC

I'm teacher in secondary scool, it is cooking school . Many students love cooking and they choose vocational school. So I try to carry out these talents . Students cook at scool laboratory Each food is always linked with a specific theme, historic, geographic or literary theme, so my students acquire many competences

Teuta, Albania

2017-04-15 11:57:11 UTC

I ask my students individual about their dreams. A student expressed him self to go abroad for a better future, work and study, many students don't dream studying and working in their country.