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Best Practice „Career Orientation”. The Significiance of Career Orientation. The Individual Career opportunities and future prospects Successful careers Autonomous and self-confident young people. Societal, Economical, Political Context Youth unemployment - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Best Practice„Career Orientation”
The Individual
Career opportunities and future prospects
Successful careers
Autonomous and self-confident young people
Societal, Economical, Political Context
Youth unemployment
Pressures on social cohesion
Shortage of qualified workers against the
backdrop of demographic change
Help to avoid
Need solutions
The Significiance of Career Orientation
Quality of vocational training
Accessibility, permeability and wealth of opportunities of
the educational tracks
career orientation programs with a structurally grounded foundation
Educationally well-developed career orientation programs
Depending on:
A successful transition from school into the work force
Statewide plan in Berlin „Career and Academic Orientation”:
„Career and academic orientation should be regarded as the task of all [school] teachers in all subjects, and collaborations with
partners outside of the schools should be included as an integral component.”
(Resource: http://bildungsserver.berlin-brandenburg.de/berufsorientierung.html)
The Berlin Senate Administration for Education, Youth and Science & the career counseling arm of the Federal Employment Agency
„Berufspraxis Network”
Structural Integration
acting on behalf of authority
Political Context
Berufspraxis Network combines
27 Secondary Schools 16 Berlin Trade Guilds
& the Chamber ofSkilled Crafts
and Small BusinessesTradesneed
qualified workers
Variety of Interests
Young peopleneed
career opportunities
Berlin Senate:„Trades Action Program
of theBerlin Senate”
Main objective:Enabling youths toindependantly find
a career path
Factor 1:Recognizing and
developing talents,interests, skills
and competencies
Factor 2:Weighing one‘s wishes
and goals against Educational and
labor marketopportunities
Factor 3:Practice-oriented
and as early as possible
Purposes andgoals of our work
What they want
Formulating desires and interests
What they can do
Discover, develop and test
their own skills, talents and
competencies
Actually doing it
The decisive step:Comparing desiresand competencies
with job market andeducational opportunities
Premise: Continual assistance and support in the process of
Focussing on three dimensions
Career Orientation is a Process
The Berufspraxis network is „one of a kind in Germany”and its importance „could not be overstated”.
„Practical career orientation in the trades is valuablenot only for those who later wish to pursue an
education in the trades but also for those who, throughthe practical visits to the operation realize that it‘s notfor them, because that helps us avoid drop-outs among
trainees later on.”
The former Berlin Senator for Education, Science and Research,Dr. Jürgen Zöllner:
The particular Educational Approach
7th graders (12 - 13 years old):
The „Job Detectives”
• Learning in a playful way• In small groups discovering the trades in the neighborhood• Learning about various careers in the local companies• Achieving results through initiative and creativity• By collecting „evidence“-objects in the companies they solve a
riddle
The Implementation
* Education centers of the trade guilds are run by the trade guilds and provide workshops where students receive the general portion of their education in trades
8th graders (13 - 14 years old):
„Workshop Days”
• Introductory classroom event• Visiting four different education centers of the trade guilds*• Learning in a hands-on manner on-site in the real-working world• Gathering experiences and knowledge about typical activities,
materials, and tools • Additionally: events for determining key qualifications, application
training
The Implementation
9th graders (14 - 15 years old):
„In-depth learning phase”
• Offering a brief but intensive internship at a training company or education center
• Offering a clear view on the selected career• Requiring an application with a detailed description of one´s
motivation
The Implementation
10th graders (15 - 16 years old):
• Assisting the career counselors at the employment agencies in the schools
• Consulting the career counselors about the youth‘s career prospects and work with them based on that information thereby we benefit from our network of connections within the trades and guilds
• Additionally: application training, aptitude tests etc.
The Implementation
• Career orientation as a process with continuous presence, advice, support, and assistance of youths
• Career orientation through practical experiences in the real working world
• Structural anchoring of the programs for career orientation• Educational concepts that take account of the economic, political,
and societal dimensions of career orientation programs; in which the youths are at the center
and, associated with that • A value-based, holistic approach to competency development
5 Key Components of a successful Career Orientation
Some Photo Impressions
Our Partners:
IMPRESSIONSBaker
IMPRESSIONSConfectioner / Patissier
IMPRESSIONSMetal Worker
IMPRESSIONSWoodener
IMPRESSIONSGlazier
IMPRESSIONSPlasterer
IMPRESSIONSPainter and Varnisher
Plasterer
Modul e. V.Netzwerk BerufspraxisSusanne Green
Grüntaler Straße 6213359 Berlin GermanyTel.: +49 30 493 00 341Mobil: +49 170 3711754Fax.: +49 30 493 00 343E-Mail: [email protected] www.modul-berlin.de
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