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Europa: wat kunnen we leren van Finland en Oostenrijk?

Frans van Hoek

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Agenda

• Introduction• Finland: professionalisation of COG • Austria: COG in education• Discussions in 2 groups

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Introduction

• Netherlands: 11 partners

• Finland

• Austria

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Introduction Austrian partners

IBOBB

• Steirische Volkswirtschaftliche Gesellschaft Graz: Peter Härtel

• Polytechnische Schule Liebnitz: Inge Koch, Alois Tieber, Marita Aichholzer

Finland and professionalisation ofCOG (Career orientation and guidance)

Students in the age of 12–16 yearsAnne Leppänen & Anneli Muuronen, Universiteit van Jyväskylä

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The Finnish COG system

• The legislation for different school levels includes regulations about guidance and counselling • National curriculum includes the guidelines for guidance and

counselling• Every school has curriculum including the principles and

detailed plan of COG• Students in upper secondary school, vocational education and

training both universities and universities of applied sciences make a personal study plan, which includes also a career plan

• Nowadays ministries of education, labour market and social sector make cooperation concerning COG

GUIDANCE IN EDUCATIONAL SECTOR (Kasurinen 2008)

CURRICULUM GUIDELINES:• counselling of study skills and learning• career counselling• psycho-social support and student welfare services

TRANSITION

1 6 9

Choices Decision making

COOPERATION WITH WORKING LIFE

FOLLOW-UP

INDIVIDUAL STUDY PATHVocational school

Upper secondary

school

TO WORKLIFE ORFURTHEREDUCATION

TO FURTHEREDUCATIONFlexible

optionsComprehensive education

Class teachers Guidance counsellorsGroup advisers

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Actors, their roles and responsibilities

• Cooperation with politicians, authorities, ministries, companies, schools and employment services• Guidance and counselling services are coordinated, entails equal quality• Clear roles and responsibilities at school:

– Subject teacher, Tutor teacher, Study counsellor, Wellfare officer, Management, Assistant staff

• All teachers contribute to the provision of guidance• Wellfare teams

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GOG in the School

Guidance and counselling in primary school • Getting familiar with jobs and occupations in neighbourhood• Cooperation with family • Classteacher is responsible for guidance counselling.

Guidance and counselling in lower secondary school (grades 7-9)• All the teachers contribute, study counsellor mainly responsible for and coordinating• Individual and group-based guidance and counselling• Guidance and counselling lessons covers study skills and school life, education and

training options, occupations, self knowledge, promotion of metacognitive skills, employment scenarios (evaluation the need of counselling among the pupils)

• Cooperation with parents, companies and employment office

Transition (age 16) to upper secondary or vocational education and training• individual study plan which includes plans about the future profession

• Orderliness, curriculum includes the principles of COG, schools have detailed plan for COG > the system is of uniform quality

• The meaning and importance of COG is confessed among all the actors• Multiprofessionality, easy to get the services • Cooperation between schools, employment offices and companies• The holistic approach of COG• COG begins at the 1st class (age 7)• COG actors have a good ”student knowledge” • Individuality and flexibility (personal study plan)• Involving students and peer support• The cooperation between school and home• Transitions - multiprofessional cooperation specially in different transitions > COG of the pupils/students is a continuum• The level and nature of education of study counsellors (qualification)• Strong research base in Finnish guidance services• Policy-makers in every level support the implementation of guidance and counselling

The strengths of the Finnish system

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IBOBB AUSTRIAPeter Härtel

on behalf of the AUSTRIAN BLUE TEAM

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IBOBB AUSTRIA

• IBOBB = Information, Beratung und Orientierung für Bildung und Beruf

• The „Brand“ for „Lifelong Guidance“ in AT• From Elementary Education to further training for

adults, education and training and labour market, elder generation etc..

• IBOBB in School: several approaches within the school system and outside

• Especially at 7th, 8th and 9th grade, due to special features of the Austrian school system

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Austrian Education System / Points of Transition

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Three-tiers-structureCounselling in School

Externalservices

Youth Coaches, PES, BIZ, Career development, Social work, etc.

Vocationalorientation as asubject (with curriculum) at 7th/8thgrade

trained teachers (studied to be a teacher) in cooperationwithin the differentschool subjects

School councellors

individual guidance (teachers with additional training)In all secondary schools

Schoolpsychologists

special advice forspecial questionse.g.inclusion

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9th Grade: Polytechnic School

• School for those who have the prior pespective for apprenticeship after compulsory school

• Main issues– Vocational orientation– Vocational preparation– Vocational basic training in areas of occupations– Transition to apprenticship in companies

• Strong co-operation with regional enterprises

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Early work experience

• In school: workshops for chosen area of occupation

• Vocational trained teachers in school• „snuffle weeks“ - in-company training up to 3

weeks for all students• Strengthen basic competences according the

chosen area of occupation• High diversity of students – high success rate

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