- Career paths and future outlooks for vocational students
- Validation and accreditation of work-based learning and workplace-oriented learning in varied environments
- Workplace skills and the entrepreneurial approach
- Promotion of entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurial competence of vocational teachers.
Contents
Work methods
Negotiate with your peer group how you will approach the above research and development topics. Investigate the career and job opportunities and self-employment in your own field. Explore the practices for personalisation of studies, prior competence recognition and validation as well as validating and accrediting work-based learning.
Execution methods
Competence demonstration:
- Describe a career counselling process which you are part of as a teacher/tutor or explore processes led by others e.g. by interviewing and observing teachers and students or an organisation representative.
- Introduce the legislation or, for example, the organisation’s strategic instructions related to career counselling.
- Describe the competence that will be required in the future of the work duties and, more extensively, field of the person being counselled.
- Describe the career counselling services the person being counselled can utilise in order to find employment or advance in their career.
- Describe the career counselling policies of the education institute or organisation (such as, counselling plan, individual study paths, studification, career planning, performance review).
- Describe the personalisation-based career counselling process. The career counselling process can contain the realisation of the focus on students or customers, setting and assessment of interim goals, creation and development of interaction, counselling methods, digital counselling tools and documentation.
- Together with the person being counselled, assess how the interim goals set for the career counselling are realised.
- Outline and critically review your observations about career counselling using the vocational pedagogic knowledge base.
- Assess your own career competence in relation to professional competence requirements and competence criteria. Identify further needs and opportunities for development in the work practices.