1. 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.

2. 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: C789

3. 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: C789

4. WHAT WE MISS IN THE CAREER GUIDANCE AT SCHOOL
Research in basic schools on the sample more than 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: C789

5. 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: C789

6. 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: C789

7. 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: C789

8. 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: C789

9. LESSON PLAN GUIDING STUDENTS TO WORK AND LIFE1.
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: C789

10. 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: C789

11. 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: C789

12. 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: C789

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

14. 5. OCCUPATIONS RELATED TO THE CONTENT MATTER
Task 1: Find the jobs of wheather forecasting:
Task 2: Research the jobs of wind energy production and usage:
Task 3: Guess and research the other related jobs:
Kód ITMS projektu: C789

15. 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: C789