Best practices – Planning my educational and professional career having my personality as a compass

Best practices – Planning my educational and professional career having my personality as a compass

1st lyceum of Galatsi, Greece

The aim of the team members was to design and evaluate possible or alternative educational and professional options that will go hand in hand with their unique characteristics. They explored their interests and skills. The personal style was also sought, which characterizes the way of actions-actions in the individual and professional life. They explored with experiential exercises a) values ​​b) “significant others” who offer knowledge and support, c) learning experiences related to either formal education or anything we may have done or learned from any volunteer work, hobby, sport. They recognized the work values ​​and evaluated their relative importance in the successful choice of profession to meet their needs. Utilizing the data from the self-exploration the students composed the Wheel of Self-Knowledge. The decision-making steps were then identified and the students chose alternatives according to their criteria and goals. The students did an internet search for the content of studies in the Schools of their interest, the postgraduate studies and for the professional rights provided. They also composed the Wheel of Professional Choices and compared it with the corresponding Wheel of Self-Knowledge. The advantages and disadvantages related to studies and work in Greece or in the European Union were discussed and the work and professional career for the members of the Program were evaluated. The students also researched their professional choices by studying professional monographs, while they also visited Panteion University, where they visited the faculties, and attended a university course.

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Best practices – Discovering myself and planning my educational course after high school

Discovering myself and planning my educational course after high school

15th high school of Athens, Greece

The students got to know each other, worked as a Career Education team and explored: their personal characteristics, their skills and abilities, their personal and work values. Then they identified the influences from the “significant others”, the stereotypes and prejudices that influence the formation of their choices, their educational choices after High School. Then they learned about the decision-making process, about valid information. And finally, they created their personal script for an educational course and created professional monographs that interested them.

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Best practices – See Your Mind

See Your Mind

IES El Greco, Spain

Students of the Higher Level Training Cycle of Sociocultural and Tourist Animation carry out in a first phase of work, a research work on the educational characteristics of the students of Compulsory Secondary Education who will participate in the project “SEE YOUR MIND”. They will analyze what the label “students who do not meet educational expectations” means. Subsequently, they will hold a first meeting with these students, where they will arbitrate guidelines and rules to follow voluntarily, and will undertake a Social and Educational Intervention Project, imbued with great tolerance, respect and care for diversity.

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Best practices – Discover your choices

Discover your choices

Geitonas school, Greece

High school students participate in several actions (according to their age) in order to come in contact with studies, professions and the labour market. Among the activities they participate are:
a. workshops with professionals from several sectors, representatives of universities,
b. study visits in workplaces
c. programs of internship in the summer months in enterprises in the local area
d. assessment tools on personality, abilities, interests, values
e. skills workshops on “critical thinking”, “teamwork”, “creativity”, “communication”

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