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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 2: School intervention
How to recognize pupils interests/skills + Online Resources
The main objectives of this chapter are to:
  • to equip teachers and counsellors with necessary means so that they can recognize their students’ interests/skills;
  • to equip teachers and counsellors with necessary means which enable them to capitalize different interests and skills in a learning path;
  • to give teachers and counsellors samples of activities they can carry out at school in order to recognize and capitalize interests/skills;
  • to raise teachers’and counsellors’ awareness about the role that motivation has in students’ performance;
  • to equip teachers and counsellors with tips and sample activities on how to enhance their students’ motivation;
  • to raise teachers’and counsellors’ awareness about the role that communication with parents has in students’ performance.

The chapter enables teachers to recognise students’ interests and skills. Teachers should consider such issues when designing assignments or in-class activities. School teachers, advisors and counsellors need to be equipped with the necessary skills and tools for better understanding students’ individual attitudes, interests and potential skills to be spent in their future career and valorise them in their learning process as a means of overcoming pupils’ demotivation.

Teachers are provided with tools including useful information on skills, abilities, knowledges, work activities, and interests which can be associated with occupations/jobs. The chapter also highlights the important of parent involvement in children’s development and success at school and in life.
Online Resources
  • School&workThe site provides students with useful tests which enable them to discover what they are good at.
  • Open CollegesThe Open Colleges Career Quiz is designed to give you an understanding of your personality and the career areas that you would be best suited to.
  • Career Test Free Online and Job Quiz Aptitude TestThe site provides those interested with useful tests to help students to identify areas of study that may suit their skills and preferences.
  • Career TestEducations.com has developed this useful online career test to help students to identify areas of study that may suit their skills and preferences. The tests suggest careers and study courses that may be of interest to students.
  • Take Our Free PersonalityType.com AssessmentThe site shows a powerful tool which helps people in so many practical ways with their career choice.
  • Type theory and career choiceOn the basis of your answers to the test you are placed in one of sixteen types. What type you are says quite a bit about you -- your likes and dislikes, your likely career choices, your compatibility with others, and so on.
  • Personality test: what job would make you happiest?The test helps students find what job would make them the happiest.
  • Personality test: what job would make you happiest? The site helps students discover the best jobs for them among six occupational themes: realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, and conventional with the help of the Holland career codes.

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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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