Digital toolbox for schools to tackle early school leaving and disadvantage through guidance
SORPRENDO
Centro Studi Pluriversum, Italy
SORPRENDO is the innovative technology platform for career guidance, designed to help people make responsible decisions for their future. Using tools for self-assessment of one’s interests, preferences, skills and a database with detailed fact sheets on over 450 career paths, SORPRENDO allows people to identify study and work goals and build action plans to achieve them.
myfuture
Università di Camerino, Italy
Use of e-portfolio to support career development during on-the-job experiences.
Mind the gap
Confindustria Pesaro Urbino, Italy
The project aims to bring school and the world of work closer through a series of digital laboratory meetings that guide students in an interactive and engaging exploration of the professions and the business world. The path is developed in 3 moments: an initial preparation for the young people to meet the world of work, a central one for exploring the productive contexts and the professionals who populate them through the use of video materials and a final one for study and analysis of the business context. A series of videos on local companies become, during the workshops, study material and first “exploration” of the world of work. The initiative is structured in online meetings that allow students to enter different realities and create bridges between their personal history, their wealth of experience and the world of work.
Training on guidance
Barcelona Education Consortium, Spain
The Consorci d’Educació de Barcelona offered a guidance training to compulsory education teachers to promote vocational education guidance and post-secondary options.
Orienta FP network
Department of Education of Catalonia, Spain
Network of schools to help schools with their guidance programs.
At Orientafp we work to improve the support and guidance of our students in educational and professional transitions.
We are starting a new stage as a program, with the mission of contributing to the improvement of results, loyalty to FP and its modernization. With these premises, we focus our work around three axes:
– support for student-centred methodologies.
– minimize the difficulties in the transitions to training cycles.
– promoting tools and potential for an active life.
Enginy program
Barcelona Education Consortium, Spain
Workshops for students to discover professions.
The Enginy Program is offered as a universal measure for the educational attention of all ESO students within the framework of an inclusive education system, adapting to new challenges, current cultural, social, economic, scientific, and technological challenges; situating learning competency as a pillar to promote values and attitudes of social inclusion; for different students to live and learn together, and to reduce inequalities, while emphasizing the role of teachers and educators as driving agents of these changes.
The different projects and/or workshops that are offered are together a taste of trades and new learning that cover different professional fields (technological, artistic, occupational, humanistic, sports…) and aim to be an inspiring guidance tool for the awakening of vocations among students that contribute to the definition of what their educational and professional future will be through new learning contexts for both students and faculty.
Virtual Businesses
5th high school of Galatsi, Greece
During the 1st Week, the group is introduced. The team developed their professional ambitions and recorded the possible directions they will follow in the next years of their studies. The possible goals were recorded and in the form of a business it was possible to absorb as many professional options as possible. In the 2nd week the students proposed and then chose from the list of proposed the business they will “set up”. During the 3rd week, a lecture was given by the educational consultant about the business scenario, what it will include and how it will be developed by the students. Information was provided on the principles governing a company-company-the Board of Directors-staff-capital-operating statutes, hologram and organization chart. In the 4th week, the Lecture was given for the research (in general) and what it included. What is a job market. Research was done on the design conditions of construction and operation of aspects of a business. 5th week. How to design a merchandise. Analysis of purchase and sale conditions of goods-services. The problems were then recorded. 6th week. The positions of the Board of Directors were divided into separate roles. The students recorded their responsibilities and obligations. 7th week. The business was inaugurated. Potential customers were recorded and invitations were sent. The operation stage begins. 8th week. At one meeting, the council was found to have deviated from the budget. This is how the advertising process was designed. Problem analysis, design-execution. Switch roles. 9th week. Development of applications in a computer environment. The factors that affect the performance of an employee became known and how this can be done beneficially in the planogram. 10th week. Students followed visits to public private companies in their spare time to get to know the operating environment 11-12th week. The company “reached” a normal operating rate. The students recorded their feelings. To conclude they created a presentation in Powerpoint format as comprehensive as possible of their steps.
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Mechanic engineer for a day
1st vocational high school of Rethimno, Greece
The students who are interested in work in the field of mechanics, they visited the Škoda factory in the Czech Republic in order to experience in real circumstances what a car engineer and professions dealing with mechanical engineering are doing.
Actions for the promotion of Vocational Guidance in Schools
KESYP of Rethymno, Greece
The KESYP of Rethimno was responsible for vocational guidance services in the schools of Rethimno. Among its services were: Open day in the Technical University of Crete, Teaching Visits at the Universities of Crete, Science student for one day, workshops and webinars in schools to inform students and their parents on the importance of vocational guidance and how they can get benefited through the school Career Guidance services.
Dream trap: Professional monagraphies/profiles
4th high school of Galatsi, Greece
Students capture the profession of their dreams. Dreams are collected and matched with corresponding dreams. Then, students research in groups of common dreams (professions) of their choices. Information includes job descriptions, required studies, skills/competencies, labour market demand, professional rights, and creation of professional monographs. Information is collected and recorded. Each student puts his personal stamp in the recording style. At the end, the presentation with the help of software (PowerPoint) is created and the team participates in the final presentation at a Career Education Conference. The students participated in a two-day conference, in the context of “open days” for SEP, where distinguished professionals and teachers from academic and workplaces spoke and presented the results of their work in a Career Education Conference organized by KESY. PI. Galatsi
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