Examples of Career Education Lessons CAREER GUIDANCE COMPONENTS IN BASIC EDUCATION Examples of Career Education Lessons within the Curriculum National project: „Dual Education System and Increasing  VET Atractivity and Quallity“ Tento projekt sa realizuje vďaka podpore z Európskeho sociálneho fondu a Európskeho fondu regionálneho rozvoja v rámci Operačného programu Ľudské zdroje. www.esf.gov.sk www.minedu.sk

GOAL OF THE WORKSHOP Workshop is aimed at four career components in the basic education that teachers can easily integrate within the curricula subjects. The sample lesson will be demonstrated with the integration of the career development components directly into education. Kód ITMS projektu: 312011C789

POSITIONS OF CAREER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM National System of Occupations in Slovakia defines 3 levels occupations of career management : Career management system in the basic schools: Inside the basic school (K1 – K9): Career Guide / Special Education Teacher Outside the school: Centers for Educational and Psychological Counselling and Prevention (CPPPaP) System level, counselling Career Specialist LEVEL OF SPECIALITY Labor market Career Guide/Consultant Developmental role Career Guide Kód ITMS projektu: 312011C789

WHAT WE MISS IN THE CAREER GUIDANCE AT SCHOOL Research in basic schools on the sample more than 6 000 students revealed that: ONLY 9,4% of the students (12 – 14 years old) knew what they are good at Teachers´ role in career guidance creates only 16 – 18% of relevance 40% of the students in 8th grade do not know what they would like to do, or how the school they had selected related to the occupation The decisive role in the decision making concerning the selection of the school or occupation play parents, Recently: Only 2 – 3% of the students knew who was the career guide at their school Kód ITMS projektu: 312011C789

CAREER GUIDANCE COMPONENTS IN EDUCATION The components of career education to implement directly in the instruction Supporting activities of the national project: Self-concept Information Experience Influence Re-defining the lessons procedures in the subject matters Training of the teachers and career guides in the 3-days workshop „Supporting Career Development of the Basic Education Students“. Piloting at 28 selected schools in each region System of implementation in the basic schools in Slovakia Teachers of all subjects Kód ITMS projektu: 312011C789

WHAT NEED EMPLOYERS Employers identified lack of skills needed at workplace and the life: Flexibility Ability to adapt to chnge, change the behavior, habits, effectively work in new or changing environmnets Independent problem solving  Ability to independently analyze situation, to search solutions and perform a task Cooperation (within the work)  Ability to join the common work, to create positive atmosphere in a team, effort to achieve team results Problem solving Ability to identify problem in time, define the problem, analyse the problem, find the viariants of solution, to select the best solution, to implement the solution and evaluate the result. Decision making Ability to do quick solutions based on combination of analysis, experience and good judgment. Self-presentation and communication Ability to effectively (verbally and non verbaly) present oneself , express one’s ideas, opinions and attitudes an present with selfconfidence. Completing work Ability to start work with enthusiasm and to finish what was started, even if complicated situations occur. Keeping, the rules, discipline Ability to hold on with principles of work, rules of safety and socially agreed rules. . Resilience Ability to cope in difficult situation, work under pressure and overcome obstacles.. Relationships with others Ability to see others as important partners and actively create and keep good relationships with them. Kód ITMS projektu: 312011C789

NEW ROLE OF TEACHERS AS CAREER GUIDES The teacher´s role in career guidance is crucial and they can improve career development and preparation for life, if they use general principles of learning and working habits in the classroom: Greater variety of teaching methods, More independence given to the students´ learning, Increasing the sense of learning for practical life Providing opportunities for group work, Increasing the reflection of learning, Providing opportunities for innovative approach to the content processing by the students. Kód ITMS projektu: 312011C789

TRADITIONAL LESSON PLAN STAGES OF TRADITIONAL LESSON 1. Admin Presence checking and signing (Who is missing?....) 2. Motivation Questions by the teacher 3. Exposition Presentation of new content, students work with the books 4. Fixing Fixing new content matter...exercises 5. Diagnostic Evaluation of the students, homework Kód ITMS projektu: 312011C789

LESSON PLAN GUIDING STUDENTS TO WORK AND LIFE 1. Goals and performance standards Teacher prepares the lesson according to the performance standards. 2. Training of the LIFE SKILL Practical training of a skill needed for work of life and the life itself. 3. Demonstration and processing the subject matter – ACTIVITIES of the students Application of the content, group work and activating methods and higher level thinking skills. 4. Application of the content in the real life, or occupations Connecting new content with the occupations and industries. 5. SELF-CONCEPT of the students development - reflection Reflecting the learning, reflection as the tool for supporting learning and behavior /skills /attitudes. Kód ITMS projektu: 312011C789

LESSON EXAMPLE: 1. PERFORMANCE STANDARDS AND THE LESSON GOALS By the end of the lesson, students will be able to: converse metric (cm to km, cm to m) related to time and calculate circumference explain measurement of the wind with anemometer practice group work skill - express their feelings in an open but non- threatening way explain the occupations related to wind seed measurement and wind energy usage Kód ITMS projektu: 312011C789

2. LIFE SKILL LEARNING Group work skill: to express feelings and opinions in nonthreatening way I – message not threatening speaking for myself expressing the need „I see it this way...“ „I need more facts...“ I message opens discussion, You – message making other person guilty offending others Example: „You do not say the truth...“ You message blocks discussion HO 1 – exercise formulation of I messages Kód ITMS projektu: 312011C789

3. LESSON CONTENT – DEMONSTRATION AND ACTIVITY In groups of 4 students: prepare anemometer ( anemo = wind in Greek, e.g. wind meter) from the available materials. Based on the movement of anemometer in the wind, each group counts how many times it spins in a given time (spins or revolutions/1 min). The blow of the wind is measured in km/1 hour, the result needs to be conversed into cm/1 min and then conversed in km/1 hour. HO 2 – conversion procedure Kód ITMS projektu: 312011C789

3. LESSON CONTENT – cont. Activity: compare your result with a Beaufort table: Kód ITMS projektu: 312011C789

5. OCCUPATIONS RELATED TO THE CONTENT MATTER Task 1: Find the jobs of wheather forecasting: https://www.indeed.com/q-Weather-Forecast-jobs.html Task 2: Research the jobs of wind energy production and usage: https://www.indeed.com/q-Wind-Energy-jobs.html Task 3: Guess and research the other related jobs: Kód ITMS projektu: 312011C789

5. REFLECTION OF THE LEARNING AND COOPERATION In the groups that you have been working reflect (individually and then discuss together): Reflect on learning: What have you learned? What attracted your attention from the whole content? Which method have you found suitable for you? What was not so easy to do or learn? How have you deal about it? Reflect on the group work: How your cooperation was going on? What went well and what could be done better? What will you keep and what will you done diferently in your group work next time? Reflect on the occupations: - What have you learned about the jobs related to the anemometer? - What was attractive on these jobs for you? Kód ITMS projektu: 312011C789