Second Survey School and WOW.pdf

WORKING GROUP: SCHOOL
workers and cooperate in a team. School‐leaver should be capable of proper self‐presentation
and have ability to communicate with potential employer.
Students should start with establishing both formal and informal contacts with potential
employers already during studies (with help of praxis, excursion, discussion sessions with
employers in school, attendance of markets and exhibitions).
III.2.2. Strategies used to assist young people in becoming ‘work ready’
Austria
E.g. in the long term general education (“gymnasium”) there exist no common strategy for
preparing young people “work ready”, because the main aim of this school type is, to prepare
young people for further education at tertiary level.
In the “Hauptschule” is mainly the aim to prepare young people within the subject “vocational
orientation” to make a choice between further fulltime school or part time school
(apprenticeship) education and training (including the choice for an additional school year at
ninth grade).
Additionally exist a lot of supporting structures and services for special questions, e.g. for
young people with special needs (“Inclusive Vocational Education”), gender topics and
additional relevant aspects.
In one school type (polytechnical school – prevocational school”) is the main aim of the whole
school year at ninth grade to prepare young people to enter an apprenticeship placement,
which fits to the own talents, perspectives and interests.
This school type is the only one with integrated longer phases of “early work experiences” for
young people within real enterprises as a part of the school program.
Czech Republic
Development of key competencies of pupils and students. Only the practice will show to
what extent it is good that each school is choosing its ways and means. There is a danger
of formal attitude.
Exercise of interviews, visits to career fairs, writing of CV and personal letter, training of
self presentation, assertivity.
Education should include also training of model situation for charitable professions.
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