"COUNSELING AND ORIENTATION – CAREER EDUCATION"

Teacher DANIELA MARIA POPA

”Tudor Arghezi” Theoretical Highschool, Craiova

Career development is a continuous process, a series of choices, and these changes of

interests are generated by the personal and professional ones. Decision making and career

planning are part of a process which can be learnt and applied all life long, in the context of a

variety of factors, such as: interests, skills, school achievements, habits, needs, values, self

image, as well as other subjective factors.

For this reason, the current didactic material "Counseling and orientation – Career

education" targets those teenagers who are part of a certain type of education – highschool

students at any specialty: theoretical, technological, vocational, as well as professional education,

thus becoming a useful tool for the future professional path and for their insertion in the labour

market, from the point of view of self knowledge. Our students’ prior experiences influence their

current needs and interests, and thus become important references for their social and

professional lives, they influence their personal opinions, their colleagues’ expectations, as well

as those of their parents, teachers, relatives and other important people. Society can also have a

significant impact on career-related decisions.

Including the exercises enclosed below in the “Counseling and orientation” classes is a

personal advice, given in order for the head teachers to become better acquainted with the

students in the classes which they coordinate, and to fill in the students’ personal portfolio,

which would be an important step in the direction of an efficient communication between school,

family and the society as a whole.

THE FACTORS OF COUNSELING AND VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE:

SCHOOL, FAMILY, SOCIETY

Teacher ANDREEA MINEA

“Tudor Arghezi” Theoretical Highschool, Craiova

Teacher ANDREEA SĂNDOI

“Tudor Arghezi” Theoretical Highschool, Craiova

Counseling and Vocational Guidance is a scientific method which enables the passage

from potential to accomplished work and, furthermore, to success. This method is based on the

principle of personal development and it supposes the encouraging of autonomy and motivation

of the counseled person.

The factors of Counseling and Vocational Guidance are: the school, the family and the

society.

School can play an essential role through each and every single subject, offering

suggestive images and information concerning a certain domain.

Family should ensure the social and emotional support of the children/teenager, by

observing and selecting their positive inclinations.

The social context is also very important, as it should “produce” a “healthy” society.