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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
Pupils need help in setting priorities according schools location, friends, status, teaching quality, form, and other criteria. They need support in identification of their potentials and clarification of their future visions and goals. Pupils need a wide range of information about educational institutions, enrolment requirements, about the necessary skills and job profiles needed by the labour market in order to make decisions about their further education and career pathways.
These decisions are of high importance for pupils, therefore they need qualified counselling. A counsellor’s task is to track the decision making process and be ready to provide assistance at any point when a doubt or uncertainty arises. Teachers and counsellors help the pupils to collect and analyse information related to the education institutions and labour market. Entrepreneurial initiatives , extra curricula activities, meetings with the representatives of the world of work, visits to business companies and other activities help to strengthen pupils’ motivation to learn and continue their studies.
Psychological and assessment questionnaires, skills and aptitude tests, interactive wizard tests should be used by school counsellors and teachers to identify and highlight the interests, aptitudes, inclinations and potentials of the pupils in order to motivate them to stay at school and proceed their educational pathway towards the career and life style that might suit them best in the future.
Using these tools a counsellor will be able to assess the pupils’ existing skills, including those acquired in informal learning environments, and to identify the main areas of necessary improvement as to meet the needs and expectations of the labour, market.
Counselling should be based on trust, caring, support, mutuality, cooperation and attachment at any age or class level. Counselling process has to move on agreements that are reached on the clarification of learning and near future goals and the strategies that will enable successfully achieve these goals. Effective and open communication helps to motivate pupils to become an active collaborator with the teacher as the teacher works together in a series of school opportunities exploration, planning, and decision-making activities. Entrepreneurship education.
- AIKOS - an open vocational information, counselling, and guidance systemThis webpage provides qualitative information on the possibilities of distant learning; informs and consults a wide range of users irrespective of their age on how to choose personal educational and career pathways.
- Education&Skills Today. Achiron M., Tough choices in school choice The article outlines the importance and problems related to making decisions by parents when choosing a school for their child.
- Minesota Department of Education. Ten Things to Look for in a School This webpage provides resources to help pupils to choose the school that best meets their educational needs.
- Vocational information centre This web page provides database of interactive sites for online activities and lessons plans relating to career exploration, career decision making and career guidance.
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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.
