Second Survey School and WOW.pdf

WORKING GROUP: SCHOOL
The source http://www.schuelerfirmen.de/ gives access to more than 250 school firms in
Germany as well as information alluding this issue.
Greece
The last few years the school, the curricula and the teachers have been adapted in a more
effective way to young students’ needs. The important thing is that career counseling and
personal development it is not a lesson or a session, it is a process, a procedure. In addition,
most of the times great importance has the way that measure implemented and not only the
measure. One of the most innovative and effective methods is the visits in enterprises.
Students are visiting enterprises and “watch” professionals in their every day job life. This is a
great opportunity for students to learn about the real working life, to observe the
professionals and to be more aware of the real world of work.
Another effective method is the combination of vacations with personal training. For example
a three days campus where students play, learn and develop their selves. Students learn to
play and live with others, play games, exercises and activities for personal development.
The official curriculum, at the moment offers one lesson, just one hour per week. The same
time curriculum tries to combine personal skills into specific thematic areas to ordinary
lessons, like literature, maths etc. The truth is that this method, even if is very interesting, at
the moment doesn’t seem very effective.
The Netherlands
See the movement we try to realise by the einstein program. Start with training of these
competencies (key‐skills, life‐skills, what’s in a name) in the secondary schools and continue
this in the schools for vocational education (an ongoing learning process).
It’s new for us, we are only in the beginning of this process.
Poland
More and more schools cooperates with the National Forum for Lifelong Guidance. Experts
from the NFLG provide courses and trainings for lifelong guidance practitioners and
professionals. Hitherto about 1,000 counsellors were trained but only few of them were school
counsellors because in general there is a small number of them in the whole country. The
other professionals try to help schools. However, there is a regulation of the Ministry of Labour
and Social policy that do not allow the counsellors working in County Labour Offices to deal
with the school students.
The innovative methods and measures are introduced like:
• Individual Action Plan,
• Township of Vocational Interests – the method based on the John Holland theory,
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