Second Survey School and WOW.pdf

WORKING GROUP: SCHOOL
• Questionnaire of Entrepreneurial Abilities,
• Achievement Motivation Scale
• ECENT questionnaire
There is also a great role of the Country Centre for Supporting Vocational and Continuing
Education, which inspires, prepares and coordinates activities related to professional
development of teachers from vocational schools and schools for adults. It prepares and
executes educational ventures related to the stages of educational transformation in Poland.
Its vocational guidance department provides the following activities:
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Prepares the staff for the guidance and counselling system in the area of vocational and
continuing education.
Prepares publications supporting vocational counsellors.
Implements the National Resource Centre for Vocational Guidance/ Euroguidance
Network Project within the Leonardo da Vinci programme.
Publishes informaton in PLOTEUS ‐ Portal on Learning Opportunities Throughout the
European Space.
Implements the Compilation and Dissemination of Didactical Resources for Students' Career
Planning Project as part of the European Social Fund ‐ Sectoral Operational Programme of
Human Resources Development.
Slovakia
CLIL – Content and Language Integrated Learning – It is an educational method of teaching of
a non‐language subject by foreign language. It is employed in Business Academy in Hlohovec
from school year 2006/2007. It contributes to better linguistic knowledge of students. [Ref. 8]
Engineering training college of J. Jonáš has a history of innovative projects concerning language
teaching (project ‐ Mobile language laboratory) and vocational subjects (internship for
students done in cooperation with Czech, Austrian and Hungarian schools). [Ref. 9]
Programmes of Junior Achievement are intended for schools of all types and their students as
optional subjects approved by the Ministry of Education or as spare times activities. They are
free of charge including methodology, textbooks, lectures, workshops and internships for
students. Aim of these programmes is to provide economic basics by experiential learning.
They should support independence, responsibility for one’s own future, ethical decisionmaking
and create a realistic image about the world of entrepreneurship. Utilizing of ICT in
these programmes is very useful, too. [Ref. 10]
Vocational Secondary School of Clothing Puchov has joined the project E‐fashion that was
executed by variety of organisations in seven countries. Aim of this project was to integrate
the use of IT and multimedia into vocational education and training of fashion and textiles
design. [Ref. 11]
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