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This module focuses on how to unveil the interests and aptitudes of students, in order to plan and implement personalized educational paths and guidance services to valorise these talents through curricular and extracurricular activities and motivate the students to stay at school.

Capitalise on pupils interests and skills

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Chapter 4: Working staff in the school
Create staff (teachers, counsellors, external experts for extracurricular activities) + Online Resources
Lifelong learning is a recent concept, stemming from the unprecedented level of changes and challenges that our world is facing nowadays. It means that education never finishes as people have to keep pace with the new standards. It is based on opportunities to learn throughout life, in different settings, and through different mediums. It calls for innovation, as well as a more holistic, flexible, and open-minded way of looking at education. It is an education without a start and a finish.
  • CPD is an acronym for Continuing (or Continuous) Professional Development. It can be broadly defined as any type of learning that one undertakes which increases one’s knowledge, understanding and experiences of a subject area or role.
  • CPD is an ongoing and planned learning and development process. It focuses on what a person learns and how they develop.
  • CPD ensures that an individual’s capabilities keep pace with the current standards of others in the same field.
  • CPD ensures that a person maintains and enhances the knowledge and skills they need to deliver a professional service to your customers, clients and the community.
  • CPD ensures that the person and their knowledge stay relevant and up to date.
  • CPD helps people continue to make a meaningful contribution to their team.
  • CPD helps people stay interested and interesting.
  • Focused CPD opens people up to new possibilities, new knowledge and new skill areas.
  • CPD can deliver a deeper understanding of what it means to be a professional, along with a greater appreciation of the implications and impacts of one’s work.
  • CPD helps advance the body of knowledge and technology within profession.
  • CPD can lead to increased public confidence in individual professionals and their profession as a whole.
Online Resources
  • What is Continuing Professional Development (CPD)?CPD stands for Continuing Professional Development. It refers to the process of tracking and documenting the skills, knowledge and experience that you gain both formally and informally as you work, beyond any initial training
  • Creating a Culture of Lifelong Learning A study on Continuing Professional Education (CPE) reveals there are several important dimensions to creating a positive learning culture.
  • The Lifelong Learning ProgrammeThe Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP) was designed to enable people, at any stage of their life, to take part in stimulating learning experiences, as well as developing education and training across Europe.
  • UETPNET.euEU funded projects, whose objectives are to provide EU counselors with a common framework of best career counseling services, methods and practices in public and private institutions and authorities and develop a training programme for career counselors. The project has developed also an electronic guide of best practices of career counseling.
  • Career Orientation The site focuses on helping teachers make career orientation better.
  • Effective Career Guidance The “Effective Career Guidance” handbook is the final product of the European network “CareerGuide For Schools” (www.career-guide.eu) It is a practical tool which includes the main theories of the Career Guidance, new approaches and exercises and activities for career guidance in school.

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Date: 2016.09.02

Posted by Christine CLOES - Belgique

The strength of this module is to gather (and remind) important theoretical principles (as learning styles, multiple intelligences…) and practical advice to cultivate the students’ talents and interests,for example planning extracurricular activities, developing entrepreneurial experiences at school, etc.

Date: 2016.08.03

Posted by M.J. Romero - Spain

Interesting collection of online sources. Very complete and with different approaches.

Date: 2016.07.10

Posted by Liliana Cannone - Italy

The most interesting and functional section for the type of students F.Datini IPS is the "SKILL & JOBS", to deepen the profile of the professionals and the levels of skills within the school.
Furthermore, the analysis of the job profiles of the different countries involved in the project highlights the actual demand in the labor market. It would be useful to have in the Italian language test to use them in school with our students. The clearly structured site, has a dress simple and straightforward graphics, and is quite simple to find the inserted content

Date: 2016.07.07

Posted by Rouquette-Salerno Laetitia - France

The modules are really interesting and relevant

Date: 2016.07.06

Posted by Cristina Farzi - Romania

The module focuses on how to unveil the interests and aptitudes of students in order to plan and implement personalized educational paths and guidance services which successfully valorise students’ talents. As balancing theory and practice is one of the principles of this tool the second module starts from theoretical considerations on interests, aptitudes and key competences as well as school autonomy and learning styles, which are practically supported by useful hands-on curricular and extracurricular activities, teaching methods used to capitalize on students’ interests and skills and an impressive collection of best practices, experiences, success stories as well as tips on how to use them in class. The chapter also highlights the important of parent involvement in children’s development and success at school and in life.

Date: 2016.07.06

Posted by Elza Gheorghiu - Romania

The modules provide teachers and counsellors with invaluable online materials which can help them with:
- a conceptual and theoretical framework
- tools/ techniques to use
- activities to carry out
- examples of best practice
- case studies

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This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This web site reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.