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TRANSITIONS, INTERLOCKING AND PERMEABILITY OF EDUCATIONAL DOMAINS
Learning in the Uckermark district - Seeing chances (LUCHS) (Brandenburg)
Scout – School makes you fit!
I. Problem
A better preparation for future education and the right professional
choice is especially important in Uckermark
because it is a district with a very high unemployment rate.
And although there are too few apprenticeships available,
there are positions left empty because qualified young people
cannot be found for them. In addition, the number of
drop-outs from these training is very high because the
trainees often have the wrong idea of what this profession
involves.
one or several possibilities, then the professions are looked
at more closely. These young people then inform themselves
about this profession, if possible through a personal dialogue
at the company.
After the young people have submitted their CV and
have been invited to an interview/aptitude test, they can
prepare for this appointment with the Scouts. They practice
the aptitude tests or exchange important tips for the interview.
If the company rejects this person, then they can continue
searching and preparing with their Scout.
II. Solution approach
The key to change is better preparation – also in order to
lower the number of young people who, after completing
the 10th grade, still don’t have an apprenticeship. The
Scout’s goal is to help those pupils who want help, with their
vocational orientation.
The “Scout – School makes you fit!” project is meant to
make the transition from school to profession easier for
young people. They should become capable of judging
themselves, which means they can realistically assess their
special technical abilities and capabilities as well as their
personal strengths and weaknesses, and to use this knowledge
in finding their profession. For this purpose, the young
people first take a series of tests for their age group, including
tests to determine their interests and tests to determine
their knowledge in different areas.
If it is possible, the Scouts work together with the parents,
who in most cases support and advise their children in
the choice of their future profession. Afterwards the Scouts
speak individually with the young people. Most pupils have
no idea what their future profession should be, even in the
10th grade. In these cases, the Scouts work together with the
pupils to cut out certain professional groupings, e.g. if they
don’t want to work in an office or have no interest in nursing.
Step-by-step possible profession wishes can be worked out.
When the young people have discovered their interest in
III. Outlook
Until around 2007-2008, further high birth rate age-groups
will leave secondary school, however the regional vocational
training market will remain tense because some older
applicants have not yet found an apprenticeship. A strategy
mix is planned for the continuation of this project: we will
combine the personal counselling for the young people and
their support/preparation with a third element: the creation
of more vocational trainings in companies in the region.
Personal contact between companies and young people
will be established through practical work arrangements;
the Scouts offer elements of an external vocational training
(apprenticeship) management. We are also planning on cooperating
with the project “Pupils tired of school”, and on
extending the target group to include the grades up to 10th
and eventually at secondary schools (Gymnasien).
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