The module focuses on the psychological aspects to be addressed and taken into account to understand the pupils’ personal aptitudes and characteristics, to identify those aspects that must be considered to personalize their education path, motivation to study and the risk factors that can lead to the decision of abandoning school.
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Chapter 5 - Collection of experiences, best practices, and success stories
Best practices, experiences and success stories
Teachers, counsellors, psychologists and other specialists working in the area of career guidance and counselling often share their experience writing articles on the web sites of educational institutions, in the newspapers and scientific journals, discuss during the events related to career education e.g. national and international conferences, fairs, meetings with entrepreneurs, parents, social partners. A lot of articles about teachers’, psychologists’ and counsellors’ experience, strategies and methods used by them in guiding pupils for their future life are placed on the web pages of specialized Career centres, institutional and personal Blogs. Many success stories highlighting the importance of completing school education and motivating pupils to learn can be found in Video galleries created in the frameworks of European projects.
Sharing experience among teachers, counsellors, social partners, entrepreneurs, disseminating best practices and success stories at schools and business companies bring great added value to the development of career education, counselling and guidance at school. It fosters collaboration between school and the world of work, it enhances teachers’ competences needed to better support young people and to enable them to fully develop their talents to their own as well as to their economy’s and society’s benefit.
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- Interviews with entrepreneursInterviews with successful entrepreneurs highlighting the importance of completing school education and motivating pupils to continue their educational path. Interviews taken by the pupils from schools participating in the project.
- Interviews with employeesInterviews with employees highlighting the importance of completing school education and motivating pupils to continue their educational path. Interviews taken by the pupils from schools participating in the project.
- Interviews with successful peopleInterviews with successful people highlighting the importance of completing school education and motivating pupils to continue their educational path. Interviews taken by the pupils from schools participating in the project.
- Creative workshops of career of future IT and visual technology specialistsSuccessful cooperation between Vilnius vocational Education and Training Centre of Technology and Business with entrepreneurs on purpose for education service to meet the labour market needs.
- Best practices at Lithuanian schoolsCounsellors of Panevežys Juozas Miltinis gymnasium Career centre /Lithuania/ created effective career education models and programmes.
- Best practices at Lithuanian schoolsKristina Jackevičienė, a psychologist at Kupiskis Laurynas Stuoka Gucevicius gymnasium/Lithuania/ shares her experience and success stories in organizing specialized Career Days at school. Oksana Kietavičienė, a counsellor at Lentvaris M. Šimelionis gymnasium and Nina Žemaiteliene, a counsellor at Vilnius Saulėtekis school – multifunctional centre /Lithuania/ share their experience in building school relationship with entrepreneurs and motivating pupils to continue their education path.
- Kestutis Mikolajunas BlogGreat articles on career counselling, psychological aspects to be taken into account to understand pupils’ personal attitudes and characteristics, motivation to learn, diminishing risk factors that can lead to abandoning school are located in K. Mikolajunas personal blog. Kestutis Mikolajunas, career counsellor shares his personal experience in applying coaching techniques in career guidance, provides on- line consultations and video lectures for teachers, psychologists and counsellors.
- Career guidance for successful futureDaiva Gramaliene, a counsellor at Alsėdžiai gymnasium /Lithuania/ shares her experience on forming up a team of teachers, parents and social partners for career guidance and counselling at school.
- Experience and best practicesThe portal provides best practices and successful projects implemented by Panevėžys J. Miltinis gymnasium Career centre /Lithuania/.
- The Official blog of the U.S. Department of EducationSchool counsellor Ian Brodie at t the U.S. Department of Education shares her experience on how to form partnerships with counsellor.
- International projects. Best practices.“Euroguidance” portal provides information about successful international projects related to career guidance.
- Success stories in career A number of videos that may help to choose educational and career path
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Date: 2016.09.13
Posted by Aneta - Lithuania
It provides a lot of useful information that is essential towards pupils’ understanding.
Date: 2016.09.13
Posted by Beata Višniak-Bakšienė - Lithuania
This section contains specific information that makes it possible to define the classes’ structure, provides future activities and direction.
Date: 2016.08.03
Posted by L. Barrada - Spain
For the e-learning package, I am sure I will use some of the chapters in the near future. I keep them to use them with my own resources.
Date: 2016.07.10
Posted by Palumbo Luana - Italy
This section is very important because it gives all the tools to understand the pupils’ needs, the level of their skills, their dreams about a future job. For teachers it is also useful because it offers a series of tests to know and exalt the pupils’ potentialities. Teachers can also inform pupils about the concrete possibilities of working and living abroad.
The contents of the package are undoubtedly very useful, because they permit the deep knowledge of all the possibilities offered by the labour market.
In particular the “Job profiles section offers an exhaustive explanation of how the labour market requests new profiles or is modifying the existing ones., Finally it will be important to improve the section of test so students can start to think about their skills and aptitudes
Date: 2016.07.07
Posted by I. Jacquard - France
The contents are really interesting and there are a lot of online resources.
Date: 2016.07.06
Posted by Emanuela Gheorghiu - Romania
The first module Understanding pupils highlights important theoretical psychological aspects which should be considered in order to understand and identify students’ personal aptitudes and characteristics; these aspects are useful when personalizing students’ education pathway towards the most suitable career and life style for them.
The last chapter strikes a balance between theory and practice by providing teachers and counsellors with best practices, experiences and success stories related to career planning, guidance and counselling.