Career-guidance and educational choices, cooperation between school and participants in working life Fagerlia upper secondary school February 13th. 2009.

Career-guidance and educational choices, cooperation between school and participants in working life

Fagerlia upper secondary schoolFebruary 13th. 2009 by Bente Volder

Challenges: interruption, new choices and migration

• 28 % do not complete upper secondary education

• County’s annual cost as a result of new choices: NOK 30 millions

• Lower growth rate due to migration surplus

• Age group 20-29: greatest migration

• Lack of qualified labour force

Project Aims

• Make untraditional career choices easier when it comes to gender

• Develop good schemes for thourough career guidance as well as personal adaptance through the school course, especially for students with learning difficulties or social problems

Pilot schools

• Ørsta-Volda• Stranda• Fræna• Kristiansund• Surnadal

The process of guidance in career and education –

• Self-esteem, knowledge about personal skills

• Knowlegde about careers and educational possibilities

• Experiencing by practice

Directorate for Education and Training - new regulations:

• § 22-3 Career counseling

• Defining this counseling as ”a school task”• ”obligatorial contact teachers, new : Programme Subject

(Educational Choice, In-depth Study Project) in order to learn about your options in upper secondary education.

• Partnership for career counseling.”– a subject in vocational classes for getting to know the educational – and professional choices within the programme area.

• ”—the counselor is a coordinator, supervisor, informer and specialist.”

Full school responsability

Career – and educational guidance is the responsability of:

• the management – timetable planning, adapted education, teacher competence building

• the contact teachers – ”my folder”, career discussions, involvement of parents in planning of career.

Full school responsability

Career counseling is the responsability of:

• the subject teachers – the competence aims of the curriculum must be emphasized, learning about local working life and the variety of professions.

• The counselor– coordinate and adapt, cooperate with and guide contact teachers, solve complicated cases, available for pupils seeking guidance

• between lower and upper secondary schools- on choices of education, planning of transition from lower to upper, and adapted careerplanning.

• with the working life – sensible use of job practice between lower upper secondary education, long term recruitement

Cooperation

The subject: Choice of Education

• 4 lessons per week, spread throughout the 8., 9. og 10. classes of lower secondary education

• Get aquainted with the different studies offered in upper secondary education

• local curriculum, practical subject• At lower, at upper, in work life• Posibility for colleges to visit lower

secondary schools

The subject Choice of EducationCooperation with business life• ”Job tailing”• Gründercamps• Work week, project work• Teacher-sit-in at companies• Teacher competence build up• Pupils’ practice• Joint benefit

Upper secondary education

In-depth Study Project

• New subject in vocational programs• Upper secondary level 1: - 6 lessons per week –

practical work with competence aims from level 2 or recognized trade.

• Upper secondary level 2: -9 lessons per week – practical work with competence aims from recognized trade.

• Practice period in working life, especially at level 2

Upper secondary school

• many choose Programme for Specialization in General Studies (former General Studies)because of uncertainty regarding choice of career

• The majority do not know which will be their next career steps at the end of upper secondary school

Upper secondary school

• Career adaptation in all subjects• Each pupil his/her career folder• individual careerplan• Project work/accumulated

lessons?• CV/interview training/• Practice in self presentation

CollegesPlanned visits at lower and upperconcerning:

• Training of subject teachers, showing career opportunities and choices of education

• students informing pupils about which jobs they are aiming at and which education is needed

• Pupilinitiated visits at colleges with preparatory and supplementary work

Thorough career guidance will contribute to:

• the right personal choice• Enhanced motivation among

pupils• More succesful adaption• Increased knowlegde of

possibilities of education and for work within your own county

• Better recruiting of skilled labour