Implementing effective career counseling by EUN Partnership aisbl

Maria, Greece

2023-09-25 13:06:37 UTC

I don't consider myself an expert on this topic. However, what I always tell my students is not to be too hard on themselves, that we are all human and we are going to make mistakes but we can benefit from them and learn and move forward.

Vasiliki , Greece

2023-09-25 15:22:42 UTC

I am non an expert. But I try to find different ways to make the best I can for gifted kids.

Aurora, Slovenia

aurora_calvet — 2023-09-25 19:30:52 UTC

I always try to help students to find their path. Sometimes I propose something that they didn't thought, sometimes they already have the idea and they go for it.

Edita, Lithuania

Edita_ — 2023-09-26 03:35:38 UTC

As a teacher, I've encountered gifted students struggling to choose careers due to diverse interests and perfectionism. I've encouraged them to explore various options, emphasizing life satisfaction beyond careers. Challenges include addressing parental pressure and long-term commitments.

Alex, Italy

2023-09-26 15:03:16 UTC

Career counseling is not properly my cup of tea.
What I know about my support to gifted students is that I generally focus on my area of expertise (language teaching) to make them aware of what type of universities they could go to, and what types of job offers they might get.

Magdalena

2023-09-26 17:46:48 UTC

I work in primary school so My job is to prepare my students for secondary school. Some of them find it hard to choose secondary school but still they do not have to make decision for life it can be changed. I encourage students to explore their abilities and try new things.

ANNA, GREECE

2023-09-26 18:44:44 UTC

In choosing a profession, gifted children, like all children, should focus on those that satisfy and make them happy. Parents and teachers must respect and support their children's choice.

Dr.Njoud .Jordan

ajloun_rose — 2023-09-27 09:48:10 UTC

In our school (gifted school) we :
Emphasize peer discussions and group work
with other multipotential youth so that one can see that he/she is not alone with concerns.

Use career counseling as a value-based activity, exploring broad categories of life satisfaction.

Kerim, Turkiye

2023-09-27 10:01:37 UTC

I have come across some gifted students who had difficulties in choosing the right high school type. One of them was very good at sport skills, he was also great academically. I offered him to go on academically and do the sport he loved at leisure times for fun. His parents were also challenging him to plan his career with a high salary job. In the end he made his own decision and chose the sports high school. He listened to everybody and was free to choose.

Jorge Conde, Portugal

2023-09-27 18:46:55 UTC

I'm a middle school teacher and it's difficult for a student to have a specific idea of the future work. I prefer to work on their social and emotional skills that will aid them in the future as before being a good or bad student they should try to be good citizens, knowing empathy and following the norms of society.

Gina M., Greece

5gymkalam — 2023-09-27 20:15:46 UTC

Assisting Gifted Students in Exploring Career Paths:

Career Assessments: Utilize career assessment tools to help students identify their strengths, interests, and values. These assessments can provide insights into potential career matches.
Career Counseling: Offer one-on-one career counseling sessions to discuss students' interests, goals, and concerns. This personalized guidance can be invaluable.
Exposure to Diverse Options: Organize career fairs, guest speaker sessions, and field trips to expose students to a wide range of career options and industries.
Encourage Exploration: Create a supportive environment where students feel safe to explore different interests and career possibilities. Encourage them to take courses or engage in extracurricular activities related to their passions.
Mentorship: Connect gifted students with mentors who work in fields of interest. Mentorship can provide valuable insights and guidance.
Real-World Experiences: Facilitate internships, job-shadowing, or volunteering opportunities to allow students to gain real-world experience and a better understanding of different careers.

Challenges in Offering Career Guidance to Gifted Students:

Overwhelming Options: The vast number of potential career paths can be overwhelming for both students and educators. Balancing exploration with practicality can be a challenge.
Pressure and Perfectionism: Gifted students' desire for perfection can make them anxious about career choices, leading to hesitation or fear of making the wrong decision.
Parental Expectations: Sometimes, parental expectations can be a barrier to students pursuing their true interests. Balancing parental input with a student's own desires can be difficult.
Changing Interests: Gifted students may have rapidly changing interests, making it challenging to settle on a single career path.

Agnieszka, Poland

amuc — 2023-09-29 07:54:37 UTC

Effective career counseling requires hiring specialists, which - I think - ar not available in every school. If there's no career advisor at school, subject teachers should be provided with a training on how to identify and support gifted students.

Lidija, Croatia

2023-09-29 17:53:37 UTC

I think that the gifted have a much more difficult task when choosing their career and probably need more time and counsling before they make a decision.
I believe they, the same as others, should choose to study what they feel passionate about. That always leads to a positive path in life.

Araceli, Spain

alopezma — 2023-09-30 08:26:58 UTC

Choosing a profession is difficult for any students, but sometimes councellors tend to guide gifted students towards scientific carrers and I trully believe that every student should be oriented towards what they feel passionate about.

Irene, Greece

milirene4 — 2023-09-30 15:39:53 UTC

Career counseling is a difficult task for all the students especially for gifted. Choosing a profession is a tough process that scares them but, it is important for them to discuss their interests and goals their values and fears . All the students must choose a profession according to their needs, skills and passions because only then will be happy and satisfied. Only then will have a positive attitude towards life and will enjoy every moment of their career.

Sofia. Greece

spoulioti — 2023-09-30 17:04:23 UTC

I am a kindergarten teacher, so I don't give career advice, but I have identify some multipotential students and I have talked with their parents. If I was to councel someone I would try to listen very carefully their needs and wills...

Renata

renata_jakic — 2023-09-30 18:57:04 UTC

At our school, we have a counselor who conducts career guidance for all students. I haven't noticed a specific emphasis on career guidance for gifted students yet. I personally try to help students find their path, encouraging them to listen to themselves and trust their intuition.

Corina Mitrulescu

2023-10-01 14:36:44 UTC

In our school, each form teacher also acts as a career counselor. I work in a vocational school so all the students are already oriented towards the career path they want to follow.

Visnja, Croatia

visnjakovacvezmarovic — 2023-10-01 18:58:31 UTC

As I work in a high school I usually talk a lot with my students about their future careers. For some of them, it is hard to understand what to take as they have so many different interests. We usually try to narrow the jobs they could do with each faculty and how they see them in it. Also, we try to find which career is best for future employment and what professions are most wanted at labor market. this also helps to narrow the choice.

Ruth, Ireland

2023-10-01 21:29:27 UTC

Career counselling is done in our school by our two guidance counsellors, so classroom teachers' roles are limited to informal conversations. As someone who has changed career more than once, I often remind students that what they start doing straight after school probably won't be what they end up doing -- and I'm glad to hear that hearing that may help the gifted students in the class!

Elisa

2023-10-02 05:50:58 UTC

At my school the counselor is the person in charge of helping students choose their career. However, our role as teachers and our comments and outlooks on making choices might be determining for some students. One of my strengths is to transmit calm in stressful situations. I am not an expert but I always tell my students (specially those who have trouble choosing because they excel in different areas) that we don’t make that many mistakes. That we choose based on what we know and feel know. To trust their guts and go for the next step with optimism. And if later they see that they need to do something different, it is possible to change directions. And that is ok. And also, I try to make them understand choosing a path not always implies abandoning everything else. You can have different interests from those related to your career and still learn about them, get involved, develop your knowledge. All in all, I believe we need to lower the level of anxiety when it comes to make choices. There is not just one right path to choose. And life is more flexible than we think.

Elpida, Greece

2023-10-02 09:31:36 UTC

I am not an expert, but i try to find ways to give the best for gifted Kids

Alfonsina, Italy

alfonsinalauraraimato — 2023-10-03 14:53:02 UTC

I've always worked as a teacher in the Lower Secondary School, so usually I don't meet students who have to choose the university or what job to do.
Despite this, the choice of upper secondary school can also be a source of concern. I will definitely keep these indications in mind to better support my final year students.

Iva,Croatia

2023-10-03 17:29:37 UTC

In our school students in eight grade have career counselings where they learn about different career choices.

Angeliki, Greece

2023-10-03 20:16:07 UTC

Usually I am not involved in carreer counselling. However, I suggest that they choose a field of work that makes them happy. If they are happy with what they are doing they have more chances to become successful. On the other hand gifted pupils feel more pressured to succeed because of their family and friends' high expectations. We should make them less stressed and confident on their capabilities. Most probably they will succeed in whatever they will decide to do.

Esra, Turkey

koyuncuesra — 2023-10-04 07:16:01 UTC

We have expert- student meeting. Our students learn about different professions in these meetings.

Emiliana, Italy

emiliana_rufo — 2023-10-05 09:06:22 UTC

I am not involved in career counseling because I teach in a Lower Secondary school but I help my students make their decisions about the future program of studies, i.e. the choice of their Higher Education School according to their passions and talent.

Sandra from Portugal

sandravasc — 2023-10-05 17:29:33 UTC

I'm an English teacher but I like to teach English throughout Science and link both subjects.
Usually, I say that my students can be whatever they want to be, and they usually ask me (especially the girls): "even an Astronaut?". Of course, I say!!

Ana, Spain

anarociolucas — 2023-10-05 19:08:28 UTC

In my highschool we also teach vocational training, so it is easy for students to consider another studies apart from the university. They can enter different vocational training classes, do practices with the other stuedents and teachers. It is a way of widen their future perspectives.

Valentina, Croatia

2023-10-05 20:00:31 UTC

In all Primary schools in Croatia, students in 8th class have career counseling. That is very important for making chooise of High school.

Anna P., Greece (Athens)

2023-10-06 15:42:06 UTC

As a teacher in primary shcool, I haven;t been involved in counceling gifted students about their career choice.

What I have to point out is that Greek parents often orient children with high abilities towards studies and professions that are considered as having high status (e.g. doctor, lawyer, etc.), ignoring the real desires of their children. I think this needs a lot of attention and apart from counseling-guidance of children, counseling of parents is also needed.

Marija, Croatia

marcagrh — 2023-10-06 20:46:58 UTC

I work with ages 7 to 15. When they are young I try to follow their curiousity. They always have such intreresting questions and then we all discuss them and try to find the answer. Some go into topics really deep and so we learn from them. When they are older they somehow narrow their interests to two or three choices. They have carrer counseling in grade 8. It helps them make their final decision.

Iolanda,Italy

2023-10-07 09:01:20 UTC

At my school final year students participate in two main events: a career day held in the city every year and also a university open day. In this way they will be able to better clarify their ideas about future choices. Then we discuss about it together in class

Marina, Croatia

marinamarkovicvukmirovic — 2023-10-08 17:13:10 UTC

I have not yet met students who have a hard time deciding on a career because I work with students from 7 to 10 years old.

VASILIKI, d.Greece

2023-10-09 17:34:54 UTC

they could be whatever they like.
they should choose what they like.
They could practice it.

Ioanna_Greece

technoway23 — 2023-10-09 17:36:34 UTC

I am a primary school teacher so I don't get involved in career counselling. I do know that certain schools (private for sure) offer career counselling to their classes at a certain point. They highlight their strengths and suggest a couple of possible professions to follow.

Aleksandra, Serbia

2023-10-09 21:33:59 UTC

In my school it is the psychologist’s job to provide career guidance and test students to detect their abilities and aspirations. Apart from that, students are provided with the expert counselling by the psychologists employed in the town bureau of work. School teachers can be involved in the career counselling to the extent they deem necessary or if asked by the students. I think that we can help them perceive the choice from many different angles and then let them decide for themselves.

Brana , NMacedonia

bibrana — 2023-10-10 11:05:36 UTC

It is the Edu-Team ( psychologist, pedagogist) that ran the tests for professional orientation , make consultation appointments ( I ,as a librarian , am a kind of a floating member , too, having a role in the that is unofficial in the Edu-Team , but very present.The kids are usually coming to visit in the library and clear their minds ,think aloud )as they enjoy some extra-curricullar activities organised in the library . I wish I had more time to spend with them , so that they improve and find their own ways and interests.

Ana, Portugal

2023-10-10 15:25:04 UTC

In Portugal, this type of counseling is normally carried out by the psychology and guidance service. However, when somo student ask me for advice I tell him to de research about the different options to see which one excite him most.

Milena

2023-10-11 08:10:45 UTC

The oldest students I work with are 10 years old, so I do not have any role in career counseling, except for maybe some informal talks. Thinking of the gifted students I have worked with, it's not difficult for me to see that they would struggle when choosing their career. I would suggest going the path that makes them happy and that doesn't feel like work, but like enjoyment.

Dijana, Croatia

2023-10-12 14:13:55 UTC

I m always open to discuss the career choice with my students. From time to time there are some multigifted students who are indecisive about their future career. At the end of elementary school the children can adress to career counseling.

Cecilia - Italy

ceciliamancini — 2023-10-14 12:05:01 UTC

As a teacher I believe I have to be open and welcoming towards the stimuli that come from my students, which can express themselves in the form of requested advice. However, teaching at primary school, I have never had an active role in this sense.

Silvana, North Macedonia

sk437179 — 2023-10-15 14:26:59 UTC

As a primary school teacher, I very often meet students who have doubts about where to continue their education. Together with the pedagogic psychology service, throughout the ninth grade, we make a presentation of various professions with guests from those professions. Also, at the beginning and at the end of the school year, we do research on the subject of my future profession, and the results show that even though they had doubts at the beginning, by the end of the school year, they had already made up their minds.

Rocío González, Spain

magnus179s — 2023-10-15 17:36:23 UTC

I am a primary school teacher so I am not involved in career counselling.
We usually invite families in the school to come to the classroom and talk about their jobs, this way students can learn about different types of jobs. Last year an expert on Virology came and our students were really interested in the topic.

Amaya A., Spain

2023-10-15 19:55:01 UTC

I work in a Secondary School and the Orientation Department is in charge of interviewing students in 4th ESO (15-16 years old) and 1st-2nd year of Baccalaureate (16-18 years old). In these interviews they test their interests and aptitudes to see what type of itinerary is most suitable for them (Technological-Health in Sciences, or Humanistic-Social in Literature). After this analysis, they see the options they have in VET Education or University. They are always advised that it be something to their liking, since it will be many years of study and effort, it is important that it motivates them and not get so carried away by the social interest that this career has.

Georgiana,Romania

mariusgeorgianaantonia — 2023-10-16 18:56:54 UTC

I'm not that good at it because I don't have the necessary training, but as a teacher I want the best for the students and I try to choose the best paths for the gifted.

Tanja, Slovenia

2023-10-16 19:24:06 UTC

we do not provide career counseling in the kindergarten, but we already talk with the children about what they would like to do when they grow up. of course, we encourage all children to try their hand at various fields.

Seyhan Pullukçu/İstanbul -Türkiye

seyhankonferans — 2023-10-16 19:38:38 UTC

I am a teacher in an institution of gifted students.
Because of my 35 years of professional experience, I can help with career planning, but I sometimes have difficulty in this regard due to the rapid change in our age.
Since I am a social branch teacher, I primarily support them in socializing.

Anica, România

tanaseanicamaria2015 — 2023-10-16 19:48:14 UTC

I had a gifted student in my class who read daily, books being the most important to him, but he did not accept technology and did not want to participate in projects that involved working on the computer or with various applications. Until he purchased a drone I was unable to attract him to technology. The passion for flying and building a drone has helped to use current technologies in everyday life.

Lucica , România

lucy87ot — 2023-10-16 21:01:22 UTC

I work at the kindergarten, I do not do the career counselings, but I can help with an advice wher is necesary

Bettina, Germany

2023-10-18 08:45:57 UTC

Many of my students already have an idea about their career and often it is medicine, law, politics. However, we also have students who do not aspire going to university and it is important to treat them equally when talking about their career and support this.

M

2023-10-26 21:59:22 UTC