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A collection of tests is available to be used by school counsellors and students to assess aptitudes and skills.
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Abilities Tests
These tests, produced by the project experts, have been designed to unveil students’ abilities.
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Database of Aptitudes Tests
These tests, identified and reviewed by the project experts, measure the aptitude of the students.
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Database of Skills Tests
These tests, identified and reviewed by the project experts, measure the skills of the students
This section offers the access to a collection of tools to guide the students to choose their professional carrier.
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Job Profiles
The most researched job profiles have been identified in 6 countries.
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Skills
The most relevant skills for the labour market in the 6 countries involved have been identified.
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Entrepreneurship
From this section it is possible to access learning objects to promote entrepreneurial spirit among students.
What is the secret of success? This section might offer you an answer
Successful Entrepreneurs
A collection of interviews with successful entrepreneurs.
Successful Employees
A collection of interviews with successful employees.
Successful People
A collection of interviews with successful people.Six training modules are available for school teachers and counsellors to provide them with the skills to guide students in their professional carrier.
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1. Understanding Pupils
A module presenting the strategies to understand the pupils' personal aptitudes and characteristics
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2. Capitalise on Pupils Interests and Skills
A module presenting methodologies to build up on the students' interests in order to implement personalised educational paths
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3. World of Work
A module presenting tools and mechanisms available for young people to make a successful transition from school to work
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4. Innovative Entrepreneurial Experiences at Schools
A module presenting initiatives and strategies to foster entrepreneurship among students
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5. Mobility to Learn and Work
A module presenting the opportunities to study, carry out voluntary services and work experiences abroad
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6. Guidance, Counselling and Support Services
A module focusing on how to provide effective guidance, counselling and support to students
Events
The School&Work project has been promoted trough conferences and articles.
Conferences
The School&Work project was presented in a number of events in order to report about the activities carried out and the results achieved.
Press Review
The School&Work project partnership made contacts with web sites focusing on the fields of education.Network
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Contractual Partners
From this section it is possible to access to a description of each contractual partner of the School&Work project.
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Schools
From this section it is possible to access to the information about the schools involved in the School&Work Project in the 6 European countries involved.
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Associated Partners
As a result of the exploitation activity a number of associated partners officially joined the project in order to contribute to the improvement of the project impact on their target groups and to ensure the project sustainability by continuing using the project deliverables in the next years.
This section of the School&Work portal provides administrative information for the project contractual partners and for the European Commission and it is password protected.
Training
Homepage > Training > Understanding pupils
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.
Understanding pupils
Initiation - begins the counselling relationship and establishing what the need is.
Exploration - is a gathering and studying of information.
Decision making - narrowing down the choices and ultimately choosing a career path.
Preparation - is developing the plan for reaching the chosen goal.
Performance of these activities at school is determined by pupils’ age and their individual needs.
One of the main tasks in the process of career development – to help pupils to get to know themselves, i.e., to develop self-awareness. Self- awareness/ self- cognition - means learning to recognize personal characteristics relevant to the career, recognize social environment and social roles.
At primary school the objective is for the pupils to know their closest social environment and identify themselves within it. So far there is no focus on links to career. At this stage it is essential to acquire a basic understanding of social contacts. At the level of primary education these competences are devel-oped during all lessons and activities of non-formal education.
At the level of the first phase of basic education (secondary/middle school) the variety of social contacts and dynamics of social roles are emphasized. Development of the objective self-concept assessment abilities, values and interests is emphasized at the first phase of basic education. Activities of non-formal education are particularly favourable environment for unveiling pupils’ interests and aptitudes. At this particular stage pupils have to make their first career decisions, which are directly related to their self –cognition, personal characteristics, abilities, aptitudes, values, career interests and present competences.
It is important for the pupils to have a formulated and justified psychological portrait of themselves at the end of the second phase of basic education (10th grade), which includes abilities (intellect types), aptitudes, skills, personal features, values, interests and competences.
At the institutions of vocational training when working with older pupils, who have more life and profes-sional experience, training can be based on their own experience, particularly emphasizing the im-portance of combination of social roles and creation of the network of contacts while searching for a job.
- Career counselling and Job centerCollection of career resources – videos and articles is designed to help students through the career decision making process.
- Prevention of early school leaving – a report by the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Re-gionsThe document describes how upper secondary schools in Sweden by means of strategic management have succeeded in changing attitudes to the work of schools and how staff are working together to meet the individual needs of students.
- School Inclusion PortalThe School Inclusion project support teachers in the prevention of early school leaving.
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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.
